Svk BRP Avtal 5938-2 (2025)

The Balance Responsible Party (BRP) agreement governing all parties that hold balance responsibility in the Swedish electricity system. Companion contract to the BSP agreement (Source - Svk BSP Avtal 5937-2 (2025)). Four documents: main agreement, definitions annex, general conditions annex, and a proposed amendment document for version 5938-3.

Document set

Version history: Avtal 5938 in force 2024-05-01; current version 5938-2 effective 2025-11-01; proposed version 5938-3 (in consultation) planned for 2026-09-01.

Main agreement — key contractual provisions

• BRP obligation: maintain balance per 15-minute quarter, per bidding area — planning, commercial, and economic responsibility for all imbalances between measured supply and measured demand in every Leveranskvart (Section 4, Bilaga 1)
• Settlement: eSett Oy handles all settlement, invoicing, and payment on Svk’s behalf (Section 5)
• Fees: three fee types — Grundavgift (on volume), Obalansavgift (on imbalance volume), fast Veckoavgift; levels set by Svk with 2-month notice (Section 7, Bilaga 2 Section 4.3)
• Securities: BRP must post collateral via eSett Oy (Section 8)
• Material breach: SEK 100,000 fine (vite); examples: repeated late payments, payment delays >2 banking days, missing eSett Oy settlement agreement, systematic large imbalances (Section 9)
• Amendment notice: Svk may unilaterally amend with 2 months’ notice, after consultation in Elmarknadsrådet and only after the BRP has been given the chance to comment (Section 14)
• Termination: BRP gives 1 month notice; Svk gives 3 months notice. If Svk makes an amendment, BRP has the right to terminate effective on the amendment date with 1 month’s notice (Section 15)
• Public balance-responsibility register: Svk keeps a register of signed balance-responsibility agreements and provides extracts to third parties on request (Section 6) — the raw does not name REMIT or any specific EU regulation as the basis for this

Definitions (Bilaga 1)

Key terms distinct from the BSP contract:

BRP general conditions (Bilaga 2)

Frequency behaviour constraint

BRP must not on its own initiative make production changes that worsen the frequency deviation when frequency is outside 49.92–50.08 Hz. Applies to all production starts/stops that a BRP controls for its own account.

Quarter-boundary production shifts

If a BRP’s total production change after intraday market close exceeds 200 MW between two consecutive quarters:

• The change must be spread as evenly as possible from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the quarter boundary
• Energy volumes before and after the boundary must be as equal as possible
• A Produktionsförflyttningsreglerobjekt (transfer control object) is created per bidding area as needed

This prevents large step-changes in scheduled production from creating sudden imbalances around quarter boundaries.

Control object (Reglerobjekt) structuring

Eight production types for structuring: vattenkraft (hydro), kärnkraft (nuclear), vindkraft (wind), solkraft (solar), vågkraft (wave), reservkraft (gas turbine + diesel), värmekraft övrig (other thermal), ospecificerad.

Facilities with both production and consumption (energy storage, pumped hydro) → structured as Produktionsreglerobjekt following production rules.

Reporting schedule

Svk returns binding production plans (including transfers) to BRP 45 minutes before each quarter.

Imbalance pricing

Fee structure

The Strategic Reserve surcharge structure — applying only to SE3 and SE4 (the consumption-heavy southern zones), only on weekdays, only in the peak winter period — reflects the geographic and seasonal concentration of balancing risk in Sweden.

Proposed changes — version 5938-3 (consultation document, 2026-04-07)

Consultation closes 8 May 2026; planned effective date 2026-09-01. No re-signing required from existing BRP parties.

Change 1: New mandatory legislation clause (Section 14)

New contract text allowing Svk to directly implement contract amendments required by legislation Svk is obligated to implement. Per the raw ändringsdokument, this specific proposal is conditional on Nätmyndigheten (Ei) approving an updated version of the already-required methodology for designing the agreement’s terms — if that approval doesn’t happen, Svk will withdraw this proposed change. Not verified against raw: whether this new clause actually bypasses the standard 2-month/Elmarknadsrådet notice process from Section 14 for future legislative amendments — the raw text does not state this explicitly, and the “motivering” only concerns the current proposal’s own contingency on methodology approval, not a general fast-track mechanism for all future changes.

Change 2: Reglerobjekt registration lead time (Bilaga 2, Section 2.1)

Registration deadline for a new Reglerobjekt shortened from 14 days to 3 days before start date.

Motivation: A supplier switch (which in practice means a BRP change) can be cancelled by the customer up to 4 days before start — so it’s only confirmed 3 days before. The 14-day deadline was therefore impractically early. The 3-day timeline aligns BRP registration with the confirmed supplier-switch window.

Also clarified: individual production/consumption facilities (not whole Reglerobjekt structures) are what transfer between BRPs during a takeover.

Change 3: Strategic Reserve financing references updated (Bilaga 2, Section 4.4)

Updated to add explicit references to Lag 2025:50 and Förordning 2025:835 — the new capacity mechanism legislation enacted in 2025. The current 5938-2 Bilaga 2 §4.4 text has no statutory citations at all, so this adds specific legal references rather than replacing an older, different citation.

Relevance to wiki themes

• Balancing Markets: BRP fee structure (including Strategic Reserve surcharge) and imbalance pricing; quarter-boundary production management rules; confirmation that Obalans pricing excludes internal congestion activations (consistent with mFRR definitions)
• Svenska kraftnät: BRP as the mandatory market access mechanism; Svk’s capacity mechanism (Strategisk reserv) now legally grounded in Lag 2025:50
• Aggregation: BRP–BSP link: the BSP contract requires BSP to hold a BRP agreement; this BRP contract is the underlying framework
• Villkorade Avtal: Strategic Reserve surcharge mechanism covers SE3/SE4 winter peak — the same zones and periods targeted by DSO congestion management
• Demand Response: 5938-3’s 3-day registration rule change makes it significantly easier to onboard new BRPs (and thus new aggregators or flexibility providers taking on balance responsibility) — reducing one administrative friction in the market