Grid congestion is a growing challenge: the electricity grid is becoming overloaded in more and more areas. To make better use of the existing grid, operators need flexibility from large business users and producers.
Congestion Service Providers (CSPs) play a key role. They aggregate, organize, and manage flexible capacity on behalf of their customers, ensuring it is available at the right moments. This way, CSPs help relieve grid congestion, unburden companies, and contribute to a reliable and future-proof energy system.
By aggregating and managing customers’ flexible capacity, you increase the agility of your portfolio and tap into new opportunities in the market.
CSP services provide their customers with extra value: from market access and data integration to smart control. This makes your business a one-stop-shop.
With flexible capacity, you build a solid business model that supports the energy transition while creating long-term value for both customers and society.
To become active as a CSP, official recognition by TenneT is required. This ensures that you meet the technical and organizational requirements to deploy flexibility safely and reliably.
In addition to recognition, you must be registered as a market party. This gives you access to the energy markets and allows you to offer and trade flexibility on behalf of your clients.
Finally, register your organization with GOPACS. This connects you to the platform where grid operators procure flexibility, allowing you to directly contribute to solving grid congestion.
Redispatch is an important flexibility product within congestion management. It enables grid operators to quickly resolve congestion by temporarily increasing or decreasing flexible capacity.
For CSPs, participating in redispatch strengthens your market position by actively responding to intraday opportunities and expanding your services. This way, flexibility becomes not only useful for the grid but also commercially attractive.
Whether you are a service provider, trader, or large consumer, we are happy to explore whether becoming a CSP could be valuable for you. We support you with the first steps, connect you quickly with the right contacts, and guide you through the rules and opportunities of this new market role.
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A CSP (Congestion Service Provider) manages congestion management on behalf of one or more connected parties. The CSP aggregates flexibility, submits bids, and ensures execution and settlement in accordance with the Grid Code.
This applies to connected parties with a contracted transport capacity (GTV) of 0.1 MW or higher.
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.
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).
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.
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.
