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Producer is an energy entity with a license to produce electricity, an energy entity producing electricity for its own needs and an energy entity having generation facilities of up to 1 MW.
A producer can sell the electricity produced in his own generating facilities to:
- a trader,
- a supplier,
- HEP-TSO for system services, transmission network losses or system balancing,
- HEP-DSO for distribution network services or distribution network losses.
There are three types of producers in Croatia:
- a producer within the system of the public service, as an energy entity performing the public service obligation of tariff customers' electricity supply,
- an eligible producer,
- an independent producer.
An eligible producer is producer which can obtain the status through production of electricity from the renewables and cogeneration. The Energy Act, the Electricity Market Act and secondary legislation regulate incentivizing such electricity production as well as the purchase/sale of electricity produced from the renewables and cogeneration.
In order to participate in the electricity market a potential producer shall undertake the following:
- registration of company or entrepreneur in the Republic of Croatia,
- obtaining energy activity license for production of electricity issued by Croatian Energy Regulatory Agency (in case of facility's installed capacity >= 1 MW),
- entering into network use contract with HEP-TSO and/or HEP-DSO,
- obtaining EIC code from Issuing Office authorized by ENTSO-E,
- entering into balancing energy contract with HEP-TSO,
- entering into agreement on regulation of relations on electricity market with HROTE,
- in case of electricity export:
- applying to HEP-TSO for participation in cross border transmission capacities allocation,
- participation in allocation of cross border transmission capacities (organized and held by HEP-TSO).
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