Description

The “imbalance" process

The balance responsibility allocation process is made up of two separate processes that are carried out one after the other:

The "imbalance process" in question here is used to estimate Balance Responsible Party imbalances using consumption and generation data provided by the Distribution System Operators for each Balance Responsible Party before the index meters are read.

It is used to invoice Balance Responsible Parties between M+1 and M+12.

Temporal reconciliation is for correcting the distribution grid perimeters after the index meters have been read.

It is used to invoice Balance Responsible Parties in Y+1 and Y+2.

The ‘unique imbalance’ process

The ‘unique imbalance process’ described here is used to estimate Balance Responsible imbalances based on consumption and generation data reported by the Distribution System Operators for each Balance Responsible Entity. This process merges the ‘imbalance process’ and temporal reconciliation.

It enables BRPs to be invoiced between M+1 and M+12.

The data download service

The service is aimed at Distribution System Operators and can be used by any duly authorised user to download the following data:

• Estimated consumption
• Estimated generation
• Remotely-read consumption
• Remotely-read production
• Power loss load curve 
• Calibration coefficient
• Recalibrated load curve
• Report
• Report including residual
• Load curve of the national residual allocated to the BRP
• Coefficient for standardizing the recalibrated estimated consumption

Curves C01 to C05, the calibration coefficient and the overall consumption balance per BRP will be made available in W+1 at the earliest for every day of week W.
The data will be provided logged over a sliding three-year period.

Legend

The downloaded data is associated with a billing date (facturation_due) which can have the following values :

Export your data

You can download up to 32 days’ worth of your data. However the download period will have to be reduced if your data scope is large.

The exported data is in UTC time (two hours behind French time in the summer and one hour behind in the winter) and will be for the period that you have selected in the filter.

Data is exported in .CSV format and can be viewed using Microsoft Excel.

Note

The “Download Distribution Grid data in the imbalances phase” service is also available from the Data Portal via the BIG DSO Reconstitution API.