Common use of Eligibility and timings Clause in Contracts

Eligibility and timings. All participants who sign up to the DER Framework Agreement will be eligible to participate in Wave 1 subject to passing the DER Commissioning Test. Wave 1 is planned to commence early in 2019 – the date will be confirmed towards the end of 2018 (see indicative Market Trial Calendar in Appendix 1. The Wave will incorporate both Mandatory Technical Trials and Optional Technical Trials. It will be split into phases in order to allow technical trials to explore different network conditions. The final Market Trial Calendar will be published 30 days before the actual trial commencement date. Before a DER can participate in the Optional Technical Trials (which Participation Payments are linked to, see below) it must first complete a period of Mandatory Technical Trials (for which no payments are to be made to DER). Mandatory Technical Trials will be carried out during the first two weeks of the Optional Technical Trials, with trial windows between two and ten hours in length across two days, the timing of which will be agreed with DER3. There are some steps to participate in the Mandatory Technical Trials: