Additional metering services are metering and measurement services that are not considered standard metering services.
There are two types of additional metering services:
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Commercial metering services
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Commercial metering services specific to operators of closed distribution systems (CDSs).
1. Commercial metering services
Elia provides commercial metering services on the basis of a tariff paid by the service requester. These services are either not foreseen in the grid codes or the grid codes stipulate that these services must be paid for by requesters.
For most services, prices are set based on the number of time series. A time series corresponds to a unique piece of digital data that varies as a function of time. Typically, this piece of data will be:
- the quarter-hourly integration of a physical energy measurement acquired directly by existing Elia equipment (active or reactive energy);
- an aggregation of such integrated measurements. The requester selects the terms of the aggregation from among the physically available measurements.
- a remote measurement and/or remote signal.
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2. Commercial metering services specific to operators of closed distribution systems (CDSs).
Elia offers specific services for closed distribution system operators to assist them in managing their access registers and carrying out mandatory data exchanges with market players. As such, Elia helps them to fulfil some of their regulatory obligations.
The closed distribution system operator and Elia sign a service provision contract to regulate the provision of these services.
For more information you can visit the website: Additional Metering Services (elia.be)