GOPACS supports CSPs in offering and deploying flexibility. The platform ensures transparency in the supply and demand of flexible capacity and connects CSPs with the appropriate grid operators. In addition, GOPACS provides access to data and market information, enabling CSPs to better tailor their bids and optimize their services.
With clear processes, technical support, and collaboration with trading platforms, GOPACS helps CSPs use flexible capacity efficiently and profitably.
We guide you through the recognition process as a Congestion Service Provider and explain the steps you need to take to officially get started.
After recognition, you can easily register with our platform to gain access to the tools and features available to CSPs.
We help you make your first offers, set up your processes correctly, and make optimal use of your assets within the redispatch process.
With access to current and historical data, you gain insight into congestion areas and volumes, allowing you to better align your offers with market needs.
Log in to the application
Are you already a GOPACS user, or currently in the process of registering with GOPACS? Then log in to our application here.
Product release notes
At GOPACS, we continuously strive to improve our platform. Our developers release new features every day. Whenever downtime is expected, we will announce this by email. Once or twice a month, we publish an overview of all releases on the Release Notes page.
ACM – Authority for Consumers and Markets
The ACM ensures a fair electricity market in which all market participants have equal opportunities. To reduce grid congestion and make better use of our network, several new market roles have been introduced — one of which is the CSP. Since the electricity market is constantly evolving, the ACM regularly publishes new and updated regulations that contribute to an optimally functioning power grid.
Energiedatawijzer
While the ACM sets the framework, grid operators and market parties elaborate on these through decisions and agreements. Energiedatawijzer is the platform where all these sector agreements and decisions concerning the energy market are made publicly available.
Netbeheer Nederland
Netbeheer Nederland is the umbrella organization through which Dutch grid operators collaborate and communicate with the market. On their website, you can find information about how grid congestion is being addressed and which products you, as a CSP, can contribute with.
Partners in Energie
Partners in Energie is committed to promoting efficient and effective collaboration within the energy sector. They manage the market register of all different market participants and operate a ticket system that ensures your questions as a CSP reach the right person.
There are no direct costs for using GOPACS. However, costs may arise from working with a CSP or from internal adjustments required to make your installation suitable for participation.
No. Due to privacy reasons, this is not possible. On our website, we only publish information that complies with the legal transparency requirements set out in the Grid Code (Netcode) and ENTSO-E regulations.
Grid operators are increasingly able to estimate where and when the electricity grid may come under pressure, based on real-time grid data and forecasts. However, a congestion situation cannot always be predicted down to the exact quarter hour. It depends on factors such as electricity production, consumption, and weather conditions.
When grid operators expect congestion, they deploy flexibility in a targeted way. This can be done in several ways:
In short, grid operators can often identify the main risk areas and moments, but they combine real-time insights with different instruments — such as redispatch and CLCs — to activate flexibility at the right place and time.
You can reach us via the contact form on the contact page. Are you a wholesale customer or from a market party? Then you can also call your relationship manager at your own network operator.
You can sign up for a GOPACS account on this page. Would you first like to know more about participating? You can find that information here.
The recognition procedure for CSP applies in principle to everyone. Each party must go through the CSP approval process. There is, however, an accelerated registration process available for parties that were already providing congestion management services via GOPACS or RESIN before the new Netcode (2022).
The connection must be measurable via an EAN code and equipped with appropriate metering equipment. Reliable and up-to-date measurement data must be available, and the flexible capacity must be controllable on request. In many cases, the flexible capacity must be at least 100 kW to qualify for available contract types.
This depends on the flexibility product you choose. When participating through redispatch, you receive compensation based on market prices for the flexibility you provide. With contract types such as a Capacity Limiting Contract (CLC) or a Mandatory Bidding Contract, fixed availability payments or control payments may also apply. The exact compensation structure depends on the grid operator and the specific contract.
If you fail to deliver a selected bid, penalties may apply. This can result in financial consequences or exclusion from future participation. Therefore, it is important to only submit bids that you are confident you can fulfil.
Large consumers who place flex bids in the congestion portal find their bills there. Organizations that place orders through a trading platform find their invoices there.
When an order is matched via GOPACS, you as a market participant will receive notification of this from the trading platform. Financial settlement is also done through the trading platform.
Yes, the CSP recognition is nationwide and thus applies to all grid operators. Registration as a CSP is only required once. However, you must additionally complete a prequalification per connection.
