THE MALAYSIAN

GRID CODE

PRE-
PRE-LAUNCH BRIEFING
21 December 2010
Cyberview Lodge Resort & Spa
 The GRID CODE
• A technical document

• A regulatory instrument to ensure the rules, guidelines

and standards to be followed by various agencies and
participants in the system

• To describe the rights and responsibilities of all relevant

parties in the Grid System

• An inseparable, integral part of a set of legal and technical

documents defining the governance of the Malaysian
Electricity Supply Industry
 THE GOAL
• To plan, develop, maintain and operate the grid system
in the most efficient, reliable, safe, and economic
manner.
 GRID CODE OBJECTIVES
• To ensure that the power system will continue to be developed,
operated efficiently and securely in the related industry environment

• To define the base line technical rule

• To lay down governing principles, duties, mechanism, obligations,

requirements, procedures for compliance by all players

• To ensure safe, secure, efficient, and contractual least cost

operation of power system

• To provide a set of principles governing the status and the

development of the grid code
 THE SCOPE
• The Energy Commission shall oversee the
implementation of the Grid Code

• Applicable to:

The Grid Owner and GSO, in planning and operating the Grid
System

From a technical point of view, for all users in relation to the
planning, operation and use of the Grid System
 CONTENTS OF THE GRID CODE
• Preface
• Glossary and Definitions
• Introduction and Purpose
• General Conditions
• Planning Code
• Connection Code
• Operating Codes
• Scheduling and Dispatch Codes
• Data Registration Code
• Metering Code
• Appendices
 COMPLIANCE TO THE GRID CODE

• Shall be complied by:

GSO (Grid System Operator)

Grid Owner

All users of the Grid System

Single Buyer

Consumers
 DEROGATIONS & EXEMPTIONS

• Derogation

An order issued by the EC, after full consultation and
agreement with the GSO and the GCC, permanently or
temporarily for a strictly defined period

• Exemption

An order issued by the EC, after full consultation and agreement
with the GSO

Exempting a specific Generating Unit or Generating Plant or

Power Station or User from undertaking certain duties specified
in the Grid Code
 PLANNING CODE

• DEFINITION

Technical and design criteria and procedures in the planning and
development of the grid system

Specifies procedures to be applied by the Grid Owner in
calculating the generation adequacy and capacity requirements
for next 10 years
OBJECTIVES of PLANNING CODE
 SCOPE of PLANNING CODE
• Applies to:

Grid Owner

GSO

Single Buyer

And the following users:
Generators
Distributors
Network operators
Directly Connected Customers
Parties seeking connection to the Transmission
System or on to a User System
PLANNING PROCESS
 CONNECTION CODE
• DEFINITION

Specifies the minimum technical, design and operational criteria

To be complied with by users connected/seeking
connection/seeking to modify their connection to the grid system

• OBJECTIVE

To ensure that the design and operational criteria the basic rules
for connection to the transmission system are similar for all users
 CONNECTION CODE SCOPE
• Applies to

Grid Owner

GSO

Single Buyer

And the following users:
 Generators
 Distributors
 Network operators
 Directly Connected Customers
 Parties seeking connection to the
Transmission System or on to a User System
 OPERATION CODE
• DEFINITION

Deals with all processes associated with operational planning and control
operation of the system in real time

Obligations of the Users to provide and supply information to the Grid
Owner and GSO to enable those processes

• OBJECTIVES

Matching generation & demand in operation

Ensure the provision of data to the GSO by Users for operation purposes

Provide for the factors to be taken into account by the GSO
 SCOPE of OPERATION CODE
• Applies to

GSO

And the following users:
Generators
Distributors
Network Operators
Directly Connected Customers
Interconnected Parties
 CONSTITUENTS of the OPERATION CODE

• OC 1: Demand Forecast

• OC 2: Outage & Other Related Planning

• OC 3: Operating Reserves & Response

• OC 4: Demand Control
 CONSTITUENTS of the OPERATION CODE
(cont.)

• OC 5: Operational Liaison

• OC 6: Significant Incident Reporting

• OC 7: Emergency Operations

• OC 8: Safety Coordination
 CONSTITUENTS of the OPERATION CODE
(cont.)

• OC 9: Numbering & Nomenclature

• OC 10: Testing & Monitoring

• OC 11: System Tests

 SCHEDULING & DISPATCH CODE
• DEFINITION

Sets out the procedure for the preparation of an
indicative Least Cost Generation Schedule, scheduling &
dispatch instruction to generating units and the
procedures & requirements in relation to control of
system frequency & interconnector power transfers.

•OBJECTIVE

Ensures the security of supply

Enables optimization of the use of generating and
transmission capacities

Enables the preparation and issue of a Generation
Schedule
 SCOPE of SCHEDULLING & DISPATCH
CODE
• Applies to

Grid Owner

GSO

Single Buyer

And the following users:
 Generators
 Distributors
 Network operators
 Directly Connected Customers
 Parties seeking connection to the Transmission
System or on to a User System
 CONSTITUENTS of the SCHEDULLING &
DISPATCH CODE

• SDC 1: Generation Scheduling

• SDC 2: Control, Scheduling & Dispatch

• SDC 3: Frequency & Interconnector

Transfer Control
 DATA REGISTRATION CODE
• DEFINITION

Sets out a unified listings of all data required by Grid
Owner and GSO from Users and by Users from the Grid
Owner and GSO

Identifies the section of the Grid Code under which
each item of data is required

•OBJECTIVE

List and collate all the data to be provided by each
category of User to GSO under the Grid Code

List all the data to be provided by GSO to each
category of User under the Grid Code
 SCOPE of DATA REGISTRATION CODE
• Applies to

Grid Owner

GSO

Single Buyer

And the following users:
 Generators
 Distributors
 Network operators
 Directly Connected Customers
 Parties seeking connection to the Transmission
System or on to a User System
 METERING CODE
• DEFINITION

Sets out the metering requirements relating to active power,
reactive power and active energy and reactive energy for all users
connected to/seeking connection to the transmission system

•OBJECTIVE

To ensure that all the technical requirements to comply with
statutory and license obligations

To define the accuracy requirements and the parameters to be
measured

To set out the provisions for the measurement of electrical power
and energy

To set out the provision of data for the commercial operation of the
Grid System
 SCOPE of METERING CODE
• Applies to

Grid Owner

GSO

Single Buyer

And the following users:
 Generators
 Distributors
 Network operators
 Directly Connected Customers
 5) Parties seeking connection to the Transmission
System or on to a User System
 6) Externally Interconnected Parties
 7) TNB Transmission
TERIMA KASIH
THANK YOU

Farah Azrin Mohamed

Suruhanjaya Tenaga