- capacity allocation
means the attribution of cross zonal capacity;
- competent authority
means a national governmental authority or a regulatory authority designated by a Member State in accordance with Article 3;
- crisis coordinator
means a person, a group of persons, a team composed of the relevant national electricity crisis managers or an institution tasked with acting as a contact point and coordinating the information flow during an electricity crisis;
- cross zonal capacity
means the capability of the interconnected system to accommodate energy transfer between bidding zones;
- cross-border flow
means cross-border flow as defined in point (3) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
- customer
means customer as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- distribution
means distribution as defined in point (28) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- distribution system operator
means distribution system operator as defined in point (29) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- early warning
means a provision of concrete, serious, reliable information indicating that an event may occur which is likely to result in a significant deterioration of the electricity supply situation and is likely to lead to electricity crisis;
- electricity crisis
means a present or imminent situation in which there is a significant electricity shortage, as determined by the Member States and described in their risk-preparedness plans, or in which it is impossible to supply electricity to customers;
- electricity undertaking
means electricity undertaking as defined in point (57) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- energy from renewable sources
means energy from renewable sources or renewable energy as defined in point (31) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944.
- generation
means generation as defined in point (37) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- non-market-based measure
means any supply- or demand-side measure that deviates from market rules or commercial agreements, the purpose of which is to mitigate an electricity crisis;
- producer
means producer as defined in point (38) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- region
means a group of Member States whose transmission system operators share the same regional coordination centre as referred to in Article 36 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
- regulatory authorities
means regulatory authorities referred to in Article 57(1) of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- security of electricity supply
means the ability of an electricity system to guarantee the supply of electricity to customers with a clearly established level of performance, as determined by the Member States concerned;
- simultaneous electricity crisis
means an electricity crisis affecting more than one Member State at the same time;
- subgroup
means a group of Member States, within a region, which have the technical ability to provide each other assistance in accordance with Article 15;
- transmission
means transmission as defined in point (34) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
- transmission system operator
means transmission system operator as defined in point (35) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;