In order to introduce market mechanisms to secondary control reserve, a tender is held for the
volume of energy supplied by a secondary control reserve supplier within one week. Inaccordance
with market rules, the power supplied or returned ex post is aggregated weekly by APCS in the right
direction by receipt and supply, and returned to the producer in the form of a barter exchange.
A revaluation is conducted within the course of this tender for the returns. The energy
volumes supplied for secondary control reserve is returned to the producers in the form of peak
load products. Power producers receiving secondary control reserve must return half of the volume
received in the form of basic load products.
Please note that the compensation
programme secondary control reserve (M1 and M2) has been run through exchange trading on
the Austrian energy exchange
EXAA since the trading day, 21 August 2009
(delivery 24 August 2009).
The current results of the secondary control reserve returns are published under
Statistics.
Older statistics are available at the
Download Center.
