Current Balancing State [GL EB 12.3.A]

Current balancing state
Regulation Article		GL EB article 12.3.a
Regulation text		information on the current balancing state of its scheduling area
Detailed description		Data providers shall submit the total imbalance volume(i.e. open loop area control error), specifying: - imbalance area (refer to Note below) - Error - State: Excess, Deficit or Balanced - Time interval Data is submitted and published with minute resolution. Unit of measurement is MW. With reference to GL EB article 54.6, deficit is equivalent to negative imbalance while excess is equivalent to positive imbalance. Note: By default data shall be published per imbalance area, which in the majority of cases coincide with the scheduling area. Imbalance area may differ from scheduling area, as noted in EB GL article 54.2. In case the control area covers two or more scheduling areas, reporting by load frequency control area is preferred.
Specification of calculation		The formula defined for total aggregated imbalance volume in TR article 17.1.h shall be applied. The error is calculated as an average value over each minute.
Primary owner of the data		TSO
Data provider		TSO
Aggregation		Not applicable
Publication deadline for ENTSO-E		30 minutes after the end of the minute being described
Updates		Not foreseen.