Dispatching Services Market - MSD

Increase your business by becoming a protagonist of the energy market, with power modulation you make a sustainable choice.

Energy-intensive companies can join the dispatching services market (MSD) by leaving a share of energy available to the grid operator, thus creating favorable conditions to diversify their core business and to generate sustainable income without ever interrupting the production.

Participation in the dispatching services market (MSD) determines the opportunity for the client company to benefit from significant economic advantages deriving from the submission of offers to Terna, relating to the sale of unused energy.

The MSD in the Italian energy market system ensures a stable supply of electricity through the provision of power reserves. The network manager of transmission Terna uses these resources to compensate for any drops in the energy grid that it is unable to cover.

Unlike the nterruptibility service, the client company actually becomes a real electricity broker, earning money with the sale and modulation of a share of energy in the event of grid emergencies.

Dispatching Services Market - MSD

Increase your business by becoming a protagonist of the energy market, with power modulation you make a sustainable choice

Energy-intensive companies can join the dispatching services market (MSD) by leaving a share of energy available to the grid operator, thus creating favorable conditions to diversify their core business and to generate sustainable income without ever interrupting the production.

Participation in the dispatching services market (MSD) determines the opportunity for the client company to benefit from significant economic advantages deriving from the submission of offers to Terna, relating to the sale of unused energy.

The MSD in the Italian energy market system ensures a stable supply of electricity through the provision of power reserves. The network manager of transmission Terna uses these resources to compensate for any drops in the energy grid that it is unable to cover.

Unlike the interruptibility service, the client company actually becomes a real electricity broker, earning money with the sale and modulation of a share of energy in the event of grid emergencies.

The objectives and main advantages of the MSD mechanism:

Industrial consumers of electricity can participate in the dispatching services market (MSD) by modulating their consumption with the aim of responding to electricity supply and demand peaks managed by Terna as the operator of the national electricity system.

Terna procures the resources necessary for the management and control of the system (resolution

of intra-zone congestion, creation of the energy reserve, balancing in real time), acting as a central counterparty and remunerating the offers at the price presented (pay as bid).

In the event of a grid need, Terna notifies a balancing order to the aggregator (Balance Service Provider – BSP), the person in charge of providing the service offered on the Dispatching Services Market, which modulates the load and generation of MSD participants to increase or decrease energy consumption.

The modulation plans for energy are implemented by client companies that make their flexibility available to the BSP against a remuneration consisting of a fixed fee (net of any amounts deriving from the effective activation of dispatching resources) defined as a result a pay-as-bid downward auction with respect to a maximum value set equal to € 30,000 / MW / year and a variable consideration equal to a price not exceeding the strike price set equal to € 400 / MWh.

Who is it for?

All companies that intend to increase the flexibility of production loads or that want to exploit electricity generation resources not saturated in normal operations.

We support you in participating in the dispatching services market - MSD

We are constantly updated on legislative and regulatory aspects, with careful and consolidated experience in the analysis of the load / production profiles of production processes and in the economic enhancement of participation in the proposed projects, supporting companies towards an in-depth knowledge of the real benefits and electricity markets.

We guide you in all the phases related to the evaluation of the opportunity to participate in the MSD mechanism, from the technical-economic analysis to the management of the contractual relationship with the Balance Service Provider (BSP), assisting the company from the point of view of the regulations and related regulations.