Agreements & Fees – BSP

Balancing Service Settlement Agreement

eSett Oy has prepared a template for the Balancing Service Settlement Agreement together with Energinet (Denmark), Fingrid (Finland), Statnett (Norway), and Svenska kraftnät (Sweden).

Please notice that currently the agreement can only be used in Finland, as Fingrid decided the business go-live for individuals BSPs to 20.11.2023 regarding the mFRR activated reserves market. The invoicing of individual BSPs active in the aFRR activated reserves market is planned to move to eSett as part of PICASSO implementation on 29.5.2024. 

The agreement is made between eSett and each Balancing Service Provider (BSP), and it needs to be signed by the BSP before the participants can start their operations in Finland.

Agreement with TSO

Participating as a BSP in the electricity market settled by eSett requires a valid Balancing Service Settlement Agreement with eSett as well as a valid agreement(s) with the respective TSO if required by the TSO, or it needs otherwise to have accepted the terms and conditions set forth by the respective TSO.

Furthermore, the BSP needs to fulfill all the requirements on a Balancing Service Provider defined in the NBS Handbook in order to be entitled to start and continue acting as a BSP.

Bank account agreement

The Balancing Service Provider need to obtain certain banking services from banks that eSett has approved as Settlement Banks. Here we provide information about approved Settlement Banks.

List of approved Settlement Banks

For handling the payments each Balancing Service Provider needs to open a settlement account in one of the preapproved settlement banks and sign the Agreement on Right of Disposal of Cash Account and Cash Collateral in cooperation with the Settlement Bank.

Currently, Balancing Service Providers are not required to deposit collaterals and therefore BSPs are not required to open a Cash Collateral account. More detailed information can be found in our Handbook in chapter 8.4. Required Banking Setup.

More detailed information about the agreement can be found from the NBS Handbook.