Participants

Balancing Service Provider (BSP)

Natural or legal persons, in one or more of the following capacities, shall be entitled to register with the Balancing Service Providers Registry kept by the HETS Operator, as long as they are able to provide Balancing Services:

  1. Producers, holders of a Production License or a relevant exemption from the Obligation of Production License Issuance, as long as they own a power generating unit with a valid production license, which is located on the mainland or on the interconnected islands and has an installed capacity of over 5 MW,
  2. RES Producers, holders of a Production License or a RES Producer Certificate or a relevant exemption from the Obligation of Production License Issuance for RES Units with Market Participation Obligation, as long as they own a RES unit and they are not represented by a RES Aggregator,
  3. Auto-producers,
  4. RES Aggregators, holders of a RES Aggregator License for RES Units with Market Participation Obligation
  5. Demand Response Aggregators, holders of a relevant license, and
  6. Consumers, including Self-Supplied customers providing demand response services, as long as they are not represented by a Demand Response Aggregator.

Registration with the Balancing Service Providers Registry is mandatory for producers under item (1).

 

Balance Responsible Party (BRP)

Natural or legal persons, in one or more of the following capacities, are obliged to be registered with the Balance Responsible Party Registry kept by the HETS Operator:

  1. Producers, holders of a Production License or a relevant exemption from the Obligation of Production License Issuance, as long as they own a power generating unit with a valid production license, which is located on the mainland or on the interconnected islands and has an installed capacity of over 5MW,
  2. RES Producers, holders of a Production License or a RES Producer Certificate or a relevant exemption from the Obligation of Production License Issuance for RES Units with Market Participation Obligation, as long as they own a RES unit and they are not represented by a RES Aggregator,
  3. Auto-producers,
  4. RES Aggregators, holders of a RES Aggregator License for RES Units with Market Participation Obligation, including Last Resort RES Aggregators.
  5. Demand Response Aggregators, holders of a relevant license,
  6. Consumers, including Self-Supplied Customers providing demand response services, as long as they not represented by a Demand Response Aggregator,
  7. Suppliers, holders of a Supply License, including Suppliers of Last Resort and Default Suppliers,
  8. Self-Supplied customers,
  9. Traders, holders of a Trading License, and
  10. DAPEEP, which is the Operator of the RES Units Portfolio without Market Participation Obligation.