Pre-announcement Incremental capacity process

25 June 2021

In accordance with the European regulation NC CAM (EU) 2017/459 interested parties may submit non-binding demand indications for interconnection points for a window period of 8 weeks, starting from the day that the annual yearly auction opens.

Therefore BBLC will publish on July 5th to all interested parties an demand indication document in order to facilitate the submission of market demand indication requirements for incremental capacity at IP Bacton. The publication will be published on July 5th on our website.

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

ActivityDate
Publication of market demand indication document5 July 2021
Market demand indication window open8 weeks
Market demand indication window closed30 August 2021
Market demand assessment report publishesNo later than 25 October 2021

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