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Technical clearing

Periodic clearing and settlement process

Balance group representatives

Balance group representatives send their end customer schedule to the MVGM in accordance with its specifications.

Grid operators

Grid operators are required to submit the necessary data to AGCS in MSCONS format within six working days of the first day of the month, in accordance with the Other Market Rules and the AB-BS.

Correctly formatted data is automatically imported into the system and can be viewed within a few hours in the protected area of the AGCS website (under the relevant components). Once a day, AGCS initiates the calculation of a balance sheet; shortly afterwards, the reported and usable data is displayed in the Balancing Overview menu item on the clearing platform and can be checked by the relevant market participants.

Errors are corrected by sending corrected data; the last email sent always overwrites previously sent messages.

After the 6 working days for data delivery have expired, there is a additional 2-working-day data delivery period; this is the last opportunity to make corrections before the monthly clearing calculation begins.

On the 9th working day, AGCS starts the settlement of the first clearing; this may take several hours. Once the plausibility of the result has been checked, the data is forwarded to Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG for invoicing. Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG immediately begins preparing and checking the invoices and, if possible, sends them by email on the same day to balance group representatives and grid operators with self-managed grid loss balance groups.

The invoice amounts will be debited from or credited to the accounts of the balance group representatives within three working days.

BGRs and grid operators have 14 days from the date of invoicing to raise objections to the invoices issued or to request a subsequent charging. For further details, please refer to the AB-BS and the associated annexes.

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Subsequent charging process

The subsequent charging can only be requested by a BGR or a grid operator. The requesting market participant will also receive the invoice for the costs incurred without exception. The relevant application form is provided here; it must be completed in full and sent by post to AGCS.

If balance group aggregates, grid transfers, or schedules have not been transmitted or have been transmitted incorrectly, the corrected data can be transmitted and a subsequent charge requested.

Before corrected data can be submitted to AGCS for subsequent charging, the submitter must contact the balance groups and suppliers concerned, including those who handle grid losses and own consumption in the grid concerned.

The data can be transmitted to AGCS at any time after the request for subsequent charging has been submitted to AGCS and the market participants concerned have been informed (see point 3), regardless of whether a date for subsequent charging has been set or not; the data will be “parked” until AGCS carries out subsequent charging.
Furthermore, the data must be made available to the market participants concerned. It is important for the internal settlement of the market participants concerned to have the same data basis as AGCS, as otherwise it is not possible to check the settlement.

Once the date for the subsequent charging has been determined, AGCS will inform the market participants concerned by sending an email to the administrative and technical contact persons. Only the components listed in the subsequent charging request will be taken into account in the subsequent charging. The balance groups concerned will receive a new invoice showing the difference between the old and new invoices, which will be credited or debited to the account. In addition, the party who requested the subsequent charging will receive an invoice for the costs of the subsequent charging.

Forms & guidance notes

Technical clearing

Load profiles

Determination of consumption values using load profiles

Grid operators are obliged to transmit the consumption values of suppliers and balance groups to AGCS on an hourly basis. The consumption values of customers not measured by load profile meters must be determined using standardised load profiles. These consumption values are aggregated on an hourly basis and transmitted to AGCS on a monthly basis.

The standardised load profiles are applied to the consumption groups heating (single-family homes, multi-family homes, commercial) and process gas (cooking, hot water, commercial). Once a year, the meters for these consumption groups are read and, based on these meter readings, the second clearing is carried out 14 months after the first clearing.

The calculation method for the load profiles is determined on the basis of statistical evaluations.

 

Temperature-dependent load profiles

For these, AGCS transmits a data file for each consumption class to the grid operators (or, if necessary, to the suppliers) using temperature data transmitted daily by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). This data file is used by the grid operators to determine consumption. If the ZAMG is unable to transmit temperature data for the previous day by 6 p.m., the values available for the day before that will be used for the calculation.

Load profiles process gas

Once a year, a file containing the process gas load profiles is generated and published (see homepage ‘Load profiles  YYYY’).

The following pages contain the studies on the load profiles, the process gas load profiles and the allocation of grid areas to temperature zones.

Further information on the individual load profiles can be found in Chapter 4 of the Other Market Rules.

Load profiles as of 01 April 2009

The study ‘Load profiles of non-performance-measured customers’, the list of D parameters officially announced by the grid operators and databases containing the process gas load profiles are published here. The data published is valid as of 1 April 2009.

On 1 January 2022, the parameters of the process gas load profiles were updated based on a study by Graz University of Technology. The profiles from this date onwards therefore differ from those prior to 2022.

Allocation of temperature zones

Here you can download an Excel list showing the allocation of temperature zones to the respective locations in accordance with the Load Profile Regulation.

Load profiles until 31 March 2009

The description ‘Gas load profiles’ and databases containing the process gas load profiles are published here. The data published here is valid until 31 March 2009.