An Overview on the Portuguese Quality of Electricity Supply Code Revision 2013: The Continuity of Supply and Power Quality Perspective

Abstract

New legislation, published in September and October 2012, transferred to the Portuguese national regulatory authority for energy services (ERSE) the authority to prepare and approve the national regulatory code on the quality of electricity supply. As a consequence, ERSE promoted a revision of the quality of supply code, which came in force in January 2014. This paper presents an overview on the Portuguese quality of electricity supply code revision, highlighting the main topics addressed during this revision, in what concerns continuity of supply and voltage quality aspects. The quality of electricity supply code revision created an opportunity to adjust the quality of supply requirements to the current networks performances, to promote a change on the continuity of supply performance analysis, from a network operators perspective to a customers perspective, and to increase the share of responsibilities between network operators and users.