The amendments to the 7 regulations in the fields of connection and system use, balancing-settlement, storage, licensing, unlicensed generation, network regulation and renewable energy for the electricity market were published in the Official Gazette dated May 9, 2021.

With the Regulation on Storage Activities in the Electricity Market of EMRA, the procedures and principles for the establishment of electricity storage systems and their participation in the system have been determined. According to the regulation, a separate storage facility can be established adjacent to the production facility and consumption facility. Distribution companies will be able to establish a storage facility by proving that it is cost-effective. Storage facilities to be established by distribution companies cannot be traded other than electricity distribution. Storage facilities can be established with EMRA approval. The storage facility will have at least 2 MW of installed power. More than one independent electricity storage facility can be established under a supply license.

With the regulation, universities and technology development regions can be given the right to establish storage facilities, provided that they have at least 1 MW of installed power, to be used in R&D studies. Pumping facilities will also be able to establish an energy storage facility to be used in case of an outage. Technical criteria for all storage facilities will be announced until September 1st.

The Electricity Network Regulation for storage services was also amended. In this context, according to the technical criteria whose basic framework is drawn, monitoring the storage facilities with the central system, network connection, etc. technical criteria will be determined by September 1st. Storage facilities were included in the automatic meter reading system with the changes made in the procedures and principles for Automatic Meter Reading Systems.

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