Availability Tests. 15 2.4.1 Unit AvailabilityTests...................................................................15 2.4.2 Plant Availablity Test...................................................................16
Availability Tests. As stipulated in Art.7.8 XXXX will perform two kinds of tests to ensure availability of the contracted Service: - The Capacity Availability Test, aiming at verifying that the BSP can effectively deliver at least its entire nominated FCR Power on one or more Providing Group(s) for certain Service Type(s), in all directions concerned. - The Energy Availability Test, aiming at verifying that the energy requirements mentioned in Art.6.1 can be respected at all time. The requested volume for each interval during the tests (Preq_test) is equal to the BSP’s absolute nominated FCR Power (at latest in intraday as per Art. 7.7) for the Service Type(s) and Providing Group(s) concerned by the test. If for one or more quarter-hours during a day of the Delivery Period the sum of the nominated volume in concerned Providing Groups is inferior to his FCR Power Obligation (unless in case of a Forced Outage) for the concerned Service Type, XXXX will apply a penalty as follows: Reduction_5=1/7*Weekly remuneration*Missing_nomination Where: - Weekly remuneration: The BSP’s remuneration for the concerned Delivery Period for the concerned Service Type; - Missing_nomination: The maximum difference between the BSP’s FCR Power Obligation and FCR Power Nominations among all quarter-hours of the concerned day. XXXX can perform Availability Tests on several Providing Groups simultaneously. Capacity Availability Tests can be performed for more than one Service Type per Providing Group, whereas Energy Availability Tests are only performed on one Service Type each time. XXXX will perform Availability Test for the entire Service Type obligation (whether it be nominated in one or more Providing Groups) unless if the obligation exceeds 25 MW for a certain Service Type in which case XXXX reserves the right to test part of the Service Type obligation. In case a BSP nominates more than 25 MW for a certain Service Type (summing nominated power for all Providing Groups) XXXX can activate a volume that corresponds to a part of the BSP’s FCR Power Obligation by only selecting the FCR Power volumes nominated on some FCR Providing Groups. This means that in this case XXXX will not necessarily verify with one Availability Test the BSP’s entire FCR Power Obligation for a certain Service Type. XXXX will only consider measures of Delivery Points from the Providing Groups that were selected by XXXX for an Availability Test. XXXX will always use for the monitoring of Availability Tests measurements of all ...
