Manually Activated Reserves Initiative (MARI) is the European implementation project for the creation of the European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with manual activati…
on (mFRR). The Electricity Balancing guideline (Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2195) (hereinafter the ‘EB Regulation‘), approved by the Electricity Cross-Border Committee on 16 March 2017, defines tasks and a timeline for the implementation of the European mFRR platform. The tendered Testing Servic
e provider is responsible for testing the software developed for MARI and the connections between TSOs and the MARI platform. Furthermore Testing Service provider supports TSOs with their accession to MARI platform.