Operational Procedure regarding functioning of the Day-Ahead electricity Market - Revision 6, which it will be enforceable as of 08 June 2022 approved with ANRE Advice no. 21 from June 08, 2022
Procedure regarding participants’ registration at organized electricity markets administered by OPCOM S.A., RO version only
Relevant regulations:
- ANRE Order no. 37/09.06.2021 for revocation of ANRE Order no. 82/3.09.2014 for approving of regulation for organization and functioning of the day-ahead electricity market in compliance with the price market coupling mechanism and amendment of some procedural acts that regulate the day-ahead electricity market, with entry into force on 17.06.2021, except for the provisions of art.II, which enters into force on the date of publication.
- ANRE Order no. 1156/09.06.2021 on establishing the manner of transferring the net positions resulting from the allocation of cross-border capacities between the bidding area Romania and other bidding areas, in the single coupling of the Day Ahead electricity Markets, with application from 17.06.2021.
Regulation (consolidated form) for organization and functioning of the day-ahead electricity market in compliance with the price market coupling mechanism and amendment of some procedural acts that regulate the day-ahead electricity market, subsequently amended and supplemented:
- ANRE Order no. 178/13.08.2019 for amending, supplementing, and repealing of some provisions in the electricity field
- ANRE Order no. 65/31.03.2020 for amending and supplementing of some orders of ANRE president in the electricity field
- ANRE Order no. 213/25.11.2020 for approving of Regulation for calculation and settlement of imbalances of the parties responsible for balancing - single price imbalance and for amending of some orders of ANRE president in the electricity field
- ANRE Order no. 63/31.03.2020 for approving implementation schedule of measures needed to ensure the conditions for settlement at 15 min interval scope
- ANRE Order no. 230/16.12.2020 on the extension of certain terms provided in ANRE President’s orders
Day-Ahead Market Participant User Guide, Revision 5.
Procedure for the constitution, verification and use of financial (guarantees) collaterals for participation on the Day Ahead Market (with no annexes) (in Romanian only for the time being);
New models of Letter of guarantee and their amendments related to DAM and IDM (in Romanian only);
Procedure regarding collections and payments relating to the Day-Ahead Market transactions (with no annexes) (in Romanian only for the time being).
IBAN central account for Day-Ahead Market: RO59 RNCB 0074 0292 1737 0032
For internally validating your XML offers, we’ve supplied the necessary schemas here (the base schema being full_offer.xsd)
Day-Ahead Market coupling results are established by an unified matching algorithm - Euphemia, which provides a common matching of offers.
Procedure for sending physical notifications of BRPs for DAM trades in cases when DAM participants change the balance responsibility from one BRP to another.
Steps to be followed by an economic agent in the process of registration to the Day-Ahead electricity Market are detailed in the Procedure regarding participants’ registration at centralized electricity markets administered by OPCOM S.A.:
- To get from the National Regulatory Authority in Energy field (ANRE) the license for energy production, supply, distribution, transmission and system operator or trading, or the decision allowing foreign legal entity, the right to carry out the activity for energy supply and trading in Romania;
- To register as a Balance Responsible Party (BRP) at Balancing Market Operator or delegates the balancing responsibility to the other Balancing Responsible Party;
- To submit to OPCOM S.A. a letter of intent for registering at the Day-Ahead electricity Market;
- To prepare the documentation specified in the Procedure regarding participants’ registration at centralized electricity markets administered by OPCOM S.A. and submit it to OPCOM;
- To sign the Short Term Electricity Market (Day-Ahead Market and Intra-day Market) Participation Agreement;
- To submit to OPCOM S.A. affidavit in accordance to the provisions in article IV point 1.e) from the Government Ordinance no. 28/27.08.2013 on the regulation of fiscal and budgetary measures, and the receipt of its own statement by OPCOM.
Short Term Electricity Market Participation Agreement (Day-Ahead Market and Intra-Day market) – the provisions of the IDA apply from June, 13th 2024
Aditional Act to the Short Term Electricity Market (Day-Ahead Market and Intra-day Market) Participation Agreement – template for recording the change of identification data of the participants in the Short Term Electricity Market (Day-Ahead Market and Intra-day Market)
Unique Bailment Agreement for USB Token key necessary for access to trading platform.
Note: If the participant has already signed Bailment Agreement for at least one of the markets, only the Annex will be completed
ActivIdentity Instalation Manual (in Romanian only)
ANNOUNCEMENT!
Starting with June 15, 2022, Microsoft withdraws the Internet Explorer browser, the browser used to access the OPCOM settlement system, at http://www.oper.ro/settparticipant.
In order to continue accessing the settlement system, we recommend using the Microsoft Edge browser, at least version 77, and browsing the document with configuration instructions:
Microsoft Edge Settings for OPCOM Settlement Platform - June 2022
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