Eligibility and timings. All participants who sign up to the DER Framework Agreement will be eligible to participate in Wave 1 subject to passing the DER Commissioning Test. Wave 1 is planned to commence early in 2019 – the date will be confirmed towards the end of 2018 (see indicative Market Trial Calendar in Appendix 1. The Wave will incorporate both Mandatory Technical Trials and Optional Technical Trials. It will be split into phases in order to allow technical trials to explore different network conditions. The final Market Trial Calendar will be published 30 days before the actual trial commencement date. Before a DER can participate in the Optional Technical Trials (which Participation Payments are linked to, see below) it must first complete a period of Mandatory Technical Trials (for which no payments are to be made to DER). Mandatory Technical Trials will be carried out during the first two weeks of the Optional Technical Trials, with trial windows between two and ten hours in length across two days, the timing of which will be agreed with DER3. There are some steps to participate in the Mandatory Technical Trials: 1. As part of submission of their Technical Characteristics Submission Spreadsheet, DER will have submitted their PQ capability chart (see Figure 2), and UKPN will discuss with the DER any limitations on this related to the Connection Agreement for the site. The combined PQ capability chart forms Schedule 3 of the Framework Agreement, and will have been verified through commissioning testing. 2. Before each set of Optional Technical Trials, DER will be required to submit their hours of availability for Reactive power for the whole of that period. These availabilities could be amended4 if the DER expectations change during this time. 3 DER that cannot carry out Mandatory Technical Trials in the first two weeks of the trial will not be able to offer availability for Optional Technical Trials until they have completed their Mandatory Technical Trials. We will work with DER to schedule these as soon as possible to maximise a DER chances of maximising their Participation Payments for Optional Technical Trial. 4 Meaning that the DER could opt out/in of the Reactive Power service. Availability definition is covered in the next Settlement and Payment section of this document and refers to the DER capability to provide the service not to the reactive range available.
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Eligibility and timings. All participants who sign up to the DER Framework Agreement will be eligible to participate in Wave 1 subject to passing the DER Commissioning Test. Wave 1 is planned to commence early in 2019 – the date will be confirmed towards the end of 2018 (see indicative Market Trial Calendar in Appendix 1. The Wave will incorporate both Mandatory Technical Trials and Optional Technical Trials. It will be split into phases in order to allow technical trials to explore different network conditions. The final Market Trial Calendar will be published 30 days before the actual trial commencement date. Before a DER can participate in the Optional Technical Trials (which Participation Payments are linked to, see below) it must first complete a period of Mandatory Technical Trials (for which no payments are to be made to DER). Mandatory Technical Trials will be carried out during the first two weeks of the Optional Technical Trials, with trial windows between two and ten hours in length across two days, the timing of which will be agreed with DER3. There are some steps to participate in the Mandatory Technical Trials:
1. As part of submission of their Technical Characteristics Submission Spreadsheet, DER will have submitted their PQ capability chart (see Figure 2), and UKPN will discuss with the DER any limitations on this related to the Connection Agreement for the site. The combined PQ capability chart forms Schedule 3 of the Framework Agreement, and will have been verified through commissioning testing.
2. Before each set of Optional Technical Trials, DER will be required to submit their hours of availability (at settlement period granularity) for Reactive power for the whole of that period. These availabilities could be amended4 if the DER expectations change during this time. 3 DER that cannot carry out Mandatory Technical Trials in the first two weeks of the trial will not be able to offer availability for Optional Technical Trials until they have completed their Mandatory Technical Trials. We will work with DER to schedule these as soon as possible to maximise a DER chances of maximising their Participation Payments for Optional Technical Trial. 4 Meaning that the DER could opt out/in of the Reactive Power service. Availability definition is covered in the next Settlement and Payment section of this document and refers to the DER capability to provide the service not to the reactive range available.
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Eligibility and timings. All participants who sign up to the DER Framework Agreement will be eligible to participate in Wave 1 subject to passing the DER Commissioning Test. Wave 1 is planned to commence early in 2019 – the date will be confirmed towards the end of 2018 (see indicative Market Trial Calendar in Appendix 1. The Wave will incorporate both Mandatory Technical Trials and Optional Technical Trials. It will be split into phases in order to allow technical trials to explore different network conditions. The final Market Trial Calendar will be published 30 days before the actual trial commencement date. Before a DER can participate in the Optional Technical Trials (which Participation Payments are linked to, see below) it must first complete a period of Mandatory Technical Trials (for which no payments are to be made to DER). Mandatory Technical Trials will be carried out during the first two weeks of the Optional Technical Trials, with trial windows between two and ten hours in length across two days, the timing of which will be agreed with DER3. There are some steps to participate in the Mandatory Technical Trials:
1. As part of submission of their Technical Characteristics Submission Spreadsheet, DER will have submitted their PQ capability chart (see Figure 2), and UKPN will discuss with the DER any limitations on this related to the Connection Agreement for the site. The combined PQ capability chart forms Schedule 3 of the Framework Agreement, and will have been verified through commissioning testing.
2. Before each set of Optional Technical Trials, DER will be required to submit their hours of availability for Reactive power for the whole of that period. These availabilities could be amended4 if the DER expectations change during this time. 3 DER that cannot carry out Mandatory Technical Trials in the first two weeks of the trial will not be able to offer availability for Optional Technical Trials until they have completed their Mandatory Technical Trials. We will work with DER to schedule these as soon as possible to maximise a DER chances of maximising their Participation Payments for Optional Technical Trial. 4 Meaning that the DER could opt out/in of the Reactive Power service. Availability definition is covered in the next Settlement and Payment section of this document and refers to the DER capability to provide the service not to the reactive range available. Submission of availability for the Reactive Power Optional Technical Trials will be done through the DERMS Web Interface. For each trial day, by 2pm the day before, DER will be required to provide a half-hourly forecast of their Active power expected operating levels. This information will not be acted upon in Wave 1 but will be used as a learning, both for the DER and the Power Potential project, to prepare for Wave 2. Wave 1 Optional Technical Trials are expected to cover approximately 2,520 hours of the total number of hours during the trial period. DER will not be paid for availability or utilisation during Wave 1. Instead, they will receive a Participation Payment based on their availability. Utilisation during this period will not exceed 250 hours. For a DER with an absolute MVar range of ‘y’ MVars, utilisation during this period will not exceed 250’y’ MVarh (i.e. MVar range x 250 hours). If a DER makes itself available for all 2,520 hours, therefore, it can expect to be utilised in only 10% of those hours. Further details can be found in Trial Calendar (Appendix 1), which will be confirmed and published 30 days prior to trial commencement.
3. For a DER to be deemed available during Wave 1 (mandatory and optional), it must:
1. Indicate whether it is available for each Settlement Period via the DERMS Web Interface,
2. Offer the full Q range that it is capable of doing so for a given MW output level (in accordance with their submitted PQ capability chart and network connection agreement limits), and
3. Be able to provide a non-zero volume of Reactive Power, as indicated by the PQ capability chart and the DERMS measurement of active output.
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