Market Demand Assessment for Incremental Capacity 2025

15 July 2025

In accordance with the incremental capacity process as described by NC CAM (Regulation 2017/459), interested parties are invited to submit non-binding demand indications for capacity above the current technical capacity of the BBL interconnector, using BBLC’s request form as published below. Requests can be submitted during a window period of 6 weeks, starting from the date of this publication.

The key dates for this market demand assessment are as follows:

ActivityDate
Expression of interest for Market Demand Indications document published15 July 2025
Market Demand Indication window openDuration 6 weeks
Market Demand Indication window closes26  August 2025
Market Demand Assessment Report publishedNo later than 27 October 2025

 


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