Shadow-day · stage 3 of 4 · balancing & imbalance

Balancing · hour 06 · 2026-05-29

Stage status timestamp (balancing complete): 2026-05-29T07:50:00Z

Illustrative imbalance pricing (Trading Rules R2 §07 placeholder formula). Balancing consumes the final post-IDM schedule and prices each party's deviation from it against the metered outturn.

Reference SMP (IDM)

R842.14 / MWh

Indicative balancing price

R2000.00 / MWh

Net system imbalance

-6.2 MWh

system short (under-delivery)

Per-party imbalance settlement

Metered outturn vs final schedule. A modelled residual under-delivery of 6.2 MWh sits on Eskom Holdings — coal fleet (Generator) so the balancing market has a real action to price.

Party	Final sched (MWh)	Metered (MWh)	Imbalance (MWh)	Imb. price (R/MWh)	Amount
Eskom Holdings — coal fleet (Generator)	26894.0	26887.8	-6.2	R2000.00	R-12366.67

Audit chain

Commit this balancing run to the append-only SHA-256 chain (balancing_complete event).

Full IDM + balancing transcript

[reclearIntraday] day=2026-05-29 hour=6 seed=42
[reclearIntraday] slip party=agg_renewables_01 -2.2% dam=18000 revised=17609 gap+=391
[reclearIntraday] slip party=gen_ipp_wind_01 -19.7% dam=60720 revised=48751 gap+=11969
[reclearIntraday] residual_gap=12360 backfilled=12360 uncovered=0 idm_smp=84214c backfill_awards=1
— BALANCING —
[computeBalancing] day=2026-05-29 hour=6
[computeBalancing] party=gen_eskom_coal_01 sched=1613640 metered=1613269 imb=-371 price=200000c amount=-1236667c
[computeBalancing] net_system_imbalance=-371 balancing_price=200000c