Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR)
The Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR) is designed to manage minor imbalances in the system. Services are automatically offered by FCR providers as required.
| FCR | |
|---|---|
| Capacity Market | Gate-Opening-Time: 11 o'clock, d-7, Gate-Closure-Time: 8 o'clock, d-1, Product length: 4 hours, 6 windows per day |
| Energy Market | - |
| Core Share | Core shares and cross border capacities are determined for the individual Load-Frequency Control blocks |
| Minimum offer capacity | 1 MW |
| Maximum offer capacity | 25 MW |
| Pooling | Possible inside balancing area |
| Indivisible offer | Indivisible offer possible |
| Compensation | Capacity price |
| Activation | Automatic activation |
| Activation period | Full activation within 30 seconds |
| Period to be covered per incident | 15 minutes |
| Backup | Backup not possible |
| Symmetrical/Asymmetrical | Symmetrical |
| Deadband | ∆f = ±10 mHz: from 49.99 Hz to 50.01 Hz |