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Document Exchange Between Market Participants. The ETSO Solution For The Internal Electricity Market in Europe.
Document Exchange Between Market Participants. The ETSO Solution For The Internal Electricity Market in Europe.
The ETSO Solution for the Internal Electricity Market in Europe. ETSO Task Force 14, Electronic Data Interchange with Market Participants. By Mr. Maurizio MONTI RTE (France) Keywords: ETSO, Electronic data interchange, role model, Internal European electricity Market, ETSO Identification Code (EIC), XML.
Summary: ETSO, European Transmission System Operators, was founded in 2001 and is composed of European TSOs also Members from UCTE (Union pour la Coordination du Transport de lElectricit), Nordel (Nordic Countries Association), UKTSOA (UK) and ATSOI (Ireland). The opening of the European Electricity Market requires a considerable amount of Electronic Data Interchanges (EDI) between all Market Participants. Consequently ETSO Task Force 14 was set up in order to harmonise EDI and especially the documents to be exchanged. Since its creation, ETSO TF 14 has developed the following industrial standards in compliance with UN/CEFACT recommendations: EMM: ETSO Modelling Methodology. ERM: ETSO Role Model of the Electricity Market. EIC: ETSO Identification Coding Scheme to identify parties and domains in the IEM. ESS: ETSO Scheduling System for scheduling exchanges. ESP: ETSO Settlement Process for settlement information exchanges between parties. ETSO standards are published as Implementation Guides to enable IT vendors to develop off the shelf software solutions. Implementation of the ETSO standards is underway particularly in the wholesale markets of Austria, Germany, France, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and Spain. These countries have started moving in a direction enabling European traders to have a common process to deliver their schedules. This paper has the following objectives: To provide an overview of the ETSO standards, To provide a situation report on the actual European Implementation of the ETSO standards, To present the ongoing activities of ETSO TF 14.
1 ETSO Organisation
1.1 ETSO (European Transmission System Operators)
European Electricity utilities have been cooperating for decades, mainly in order to maximise the system's reliability and quality of supply, while optimising the use of primary energy and capacity resources. Four regional organisations have emerged from this cooperation: ATSOI, the association of TSOs in Ireland; UKTSOA, the United Kingdom TSOs association; NORDEL, the Nordic TSOs, and UCTE, the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity, the association of CENTREL and the TSOs of the Continental countries of Western and Central Europe. In 1999, ETSO was created as an association with ATSOI, UKTSOA, NORDEL and UCTE as founding association members. However, on 2001 June 29, ETSO became an International Association with direct membership of 32 independent TSOs from the 15 countries of the European Union plus Norway and Switzerland. Since then, other TSOs have joined ETSO either as full members or associated members. The networks represented by ETSO supply more than 400 million people with electric energy. The consumption of electric energy amounts roughly to 3,000TWh per year.
To facilitate the internal European Market for electricity; To communicate and to cooperate with organizations and institutions having similar objectives; To investigate and to resolve scientific and regulatory issues of common interest to the TSO industry. Two basic rules of functioning have been adopted by ETSO: Tacking coordinated actions by a permanent exchange of information and a strict respect of mutual engagements. Taking action only when the objectives of the proposed action cannot be sufficiently achieved by its members acting independently of ETSO, without impeding the realisation of the internal European market for electricity.
2 ETSO TF 14
2.1 Objectives
The objectives of the ETSO TF 14 are to: Develop data interchange standards required to ensure the operational efficiency of the business processes within the scope of ETSO. Assist TSOs implementing the standards. Model data interchange for the business process defined by other ETSO task forces. Provide EDI technical support to other TSO organisations to promote the use of ETSO EDI standards for their internal data interchange. Provide guidelines for data interchange security between TSOs and between TSOs and market participants.
The ETSO methodology starts with a use case, then follows the Rational Unified Process (RUP) using UML activity and sequence diagrams to derive the information exchange requirements. UML class diagrams are then created to define the information model for the contents for each document needed to support the information exchange. The UML models in question are based on the UN/CEFACT Core Components philosophy for supporting information concepts. Then XML schemas are automatically generated from the UML class diagrams. ETSO has created 10 rules for converting from UML to XML. They will soon use the UN/CEFACT rule for automatic XML schema generation from an XMI document. It includes corresponding UML and XMI profiles from UN/CEFACT.
Balance supplier
Description The party responsible for invoicing a concerned party. Note: This role has been introduced into the role model in order to underline the fact that the Imbalance settlement responsible has not the responsibility to invoice. However this role is not specific to the settlement process and may be used in other processes as required. Consumer A party that consumes electricity. This is a type of party connected to the grid. Consumption responsible A party who can be brought to rights, legally and financially, for any imbalance party between energy bought and consumed for all associated metering points. This is a type of balance responsible party Grid Operator A party that operates one or more grids. This role is sometimes called Distribution system operator. Imbalance settlement A party that is responsible for settlement of the difference between contracted responsible and realised quantities of energy products for the balance responsible parties in a market balance area. Market operator The unique power exchange of trades for the actual delivery of energy that receives the bids from the Balance Responsible Parties that have a contract to bid. The market operator determines the market energy price for the market balance area after applying technical constraints from the system operator and the bilateral trade schedules from the Balance Responsible Parties. Metered data aggregator A party responsible for the establishment and qualification of metered data from the Metered data collectors. This data is aggregated according to a defined set of market rules. Party connected to grid A party that contracts for the right to consume or produce electricity at a metering point. Producer A party that produces electricity This is a type of party connected to the grid. Production responsible A party who can be brought to rights, legally and financially, for any imbalance party between energy sold and produced for all associated metering points. This is a type of balance responsible party. System operator A party that is responsible for a stable power system (including the organisation of physical balance) through a transmission grid in a geographical area. The SO will also determine and be responsible for cross border capacity and exchanges. Transmission as mentioned above means "the transport of electricity on the extra high or high voltage network with a view to its delivery to final customers or to distributors. Operation of transmission includes as well the tasks of system operation concerning its management of energy flows, reliability of the system and availability of all necessary system services." (Definition taken from the UCTE Operation handbook Glossary). Note: additional rules may be imposed through local market rules. Trade responsible party A party that is selling and buying energy on a firm basis (a fixed volume per market time period). They should have a zero balance position before settlement. A power exchange without any privileged responsibilities acts as a trade responsible party This is a type of balance responsible party
Parties: TSOs, traders, producers, big consumers, power exchanges, grid operators, suppliers, agents and service providers Areas: Local grids where metering points are situated, balance areas consisting of a number of local grids and control areas Metering Points: For production units, consumers cross border connections, etc. Unit: An entity whose generation or consumption is recorded at a metering point The identification scheme is based on a fixed 16 length alphanumeric code: Two characters: Issuing Office, One character: Object (Party, Area, Metering, etc.), Twelve characters: Object code, One character: Check character. Sixteen countries have already opened an ETSO Local Issuing Office to deliver a European Identification code to market participants and to domains. The ETSO Central Issuing Office manages about 1,000 EIC codes. It should be noted that two organisations EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders) and Edig@s (European Gas Utilities) have also implemented Issuing Offices. The list of the Issuing Offices is to be found in the Appendix.
closely related to other processes such as imbalance settlement, other scheduling processes, cross border tariffs, capacity allocation, etc. The guide is targeted basically towards business-to-business application interfaces using the full power of the acknowledgment process. However, it may be equally put into place in a more user orientated fashion through a web-based service where the key elements of the acknowledgement process are implicit in the service itself. The roles involved in this process are shown in the Appendix.
ETSO TF 14 describes the document to carry out the exchange of information between the different parties involved in this process. The roles involved in this process are shown in the Appendix.
2004/07: Pilot Project of implementation of ESP v1.0 in France for exchange between Distribution Utilities and RTE and implementation of ESS v2.3 in France for the schedules between Balance Responsible Party and End-Consumer in Distribution Area. 2004/09: Implementation of ESS v2.3 in Poland for the international trade schedules.
TSO
Market Participant
During t he day ahead planning cycle t he necessary reserves are ident ified to ensure net work securit y t aking int o ac count technical constraint requirement s
During operat ion Modified Unit reserve sc hedules may be provided for planning updat e. Addit ional tertiary resources may be act ivated as required.
At the end of the day resource usage is identified and any divergences with the planned resources are settled
The dark coloured use cases are the focus of the project
The above diagram outlines the different processes that are generally carried out within such markets. The focus of this new project is on the planning of reserve requirements from different resources that take place both during the day ahead planning phase and the operational phase where the initial plan has to be updated to cater for unforeseen events. One of the technical issues to be resolved at this level is ensuring that the market participant only sells the quantity of reserve that his qualified units are capable of supplying. The focus of this current project is on the use cases where resource requirements are planned. Within this process there are basically two roles participating:
The market participant who may in one case be supplying the reserves and in another case may be providing the daily market schedules of consumption and generation. The TSO who has to ensure that the network under its responsibility is capable of ensuring the market requirements and satisfying its security requirements. In this context there may be TSO-TSO interactions.
3 Appendix
3.1 Implementation of ETSO Rules in Austria
by Dr. Peter Bauhofer, A&B, Innsbruck Together with EURELECTRIC, EFET and ebIX, ETSO plays an important role for the harmonisation of data processes in the liberalised European electricity industry. National and international differences between data formats, processes in data interchange and quality management as well as the lack of common rules for identification and registration of market participants are considered to be the major handicaps for a well working liberalised market on an international basis. Since 1999 Austria has liberalised its electricity market step-wise. On October 1st, 2001 the market was open also for mass-customers on basis of a regulated grid access and a balance group system. From the very beginning on it was the goal to create almost complete market rules with detailed definitions for data processes and interchange. To guarantee a market start without any frictions and to avoid costs for new IT-systems it was important that all data processes could be done with the help of existing and proofed tools. The German KISSEXCEL format for scheduling and the German EDIFACT/MSCONS-Format for metered data exchange were the key to a successful market start. Within a few months Austrian electricity market has become more and more international. Having started with 15 balance responsible parties in 2001, 41 are registered today and they getting more with the entrance of new countries to the European Community. It was a great first step when ETSO suggested in autumn 2002 to introduce with the EIC (ETSO Identification Coding Scheme) a common rule to identify balance responsible parties and further on balance groups all over Europe. This coding and registration have been done by the national ELIO (ETSO Local Issuing Offices) that are cooperating very closely with the ECIO (ETSO Central Issuing Office) in Brussels. Data interchange between ELIO and ECIO is done on basis of XML only. Together with Germany, Switzerland and Luxemburg Austria has introduced the registration and scheduling process on basis of EIC successfully in April 1rst 2004. EIC has proofed as a very practicable solution. After the introduction of EIC, the work of ETSO TF 14 succeeded in a suggestion for a common scheduling system based on XML standard: ESS (ETSO Scheduling System) was born. The introduction of this new system meant a lot of changes at the IT-systems of market participants in the Austrian market rules. Reflecting the ETSO papers in the 1st quarter of 2002 an experts group was formed together with the Austrian Association of Electricity Utilities (VE) and the Austrian regulator. As an advantage of the regulated market system it was possible to introduce ESS in Austria within a very short time. Market rules were finished in May, ESS testing started on June 1st and the operational introduction was done from July 1st until December 2nd, 2003. Austrian imbalance settlement responsible parties and TSOs played a key role at the preparation and introduction of EIC and ESS. Imbalance Settlement is a central business process in a market system on basis of balance groups. Since 2001, in Austria imbalance settlement and reconciliation are working very successfully. It is a great honour, that Austrias experts of the imbalance settlement
responsible parties are introduced to contribute their experiences in ETSO TF 14 in particular with an international focus on data quality management. The current status of work gives hope, that also this ETSO-expertise of the imbalance settlement project will give another fundamental process rule for a common European market within the near future.
For 2005, RTE will continue to actively support ETSO TF 14 recommendations. One of the major steps will be the move from ESS v0.3 to ESS v2.3 for all the transactions related to OTC market. As a major actor for Import/Export of energy in the Internal European Market, RTE is in discussion with other TSOs to implement ETSO recommendations for cross border transactions. RTE will also actively contribute to the work carried out by ETSO TF 14 in the field of generation schedules taking also into account the already existing work from IEC TC 57 WG 13 (Common Information Model IEC 61970).
Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden
Country Switzerland
Abbreviation of member companies ATEL BKW UTN EGL Grid EOS NOK NGT SONI SSE SPT Transmission
Member companies Aare-Tessin Ltd. for Electricity BKW bertragungsnetz AG EGL Grid AG Energie Ouest Suisse Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke AG SP Transmission National Grid Company plc System Operation Northern Ireland Ltd Scottish & Southern Energy plc SPT Transmission plc
United Kingdom
Grid operator Meter operator 0..1 Maintains meters 1..n 1..n Exchange metering point 1..n administers meter information for Local metering point Meter administrator 0..n Meters 0..n Unit Is composed of Functional group belong to 1 1..n Production metering point Consumption metering point Controls financially sends invoicing information to operates 1..n Market balance area 1..n Is composed of Metering point 1..n 0..n Contains 1..n Metering grid area 1..n Is operated by 1
Control entity 1
Controlled by Is composed of Part of n UCTE is composed of manages manages manages Control area 1..n is composed of 1..n Control block is composed of n Coordination center zone
Balance group
Market operator must have Sends metering information declares constraints to reads Is balance responsible for Deals within Administrates Metered data collector Metered data aggregator Sends metered data Sends validated metered data Trades externally with 1 sends schedules to System operator Exchanges cross border capacity (CAS) Germany Is composed of Makes contracts with sends schedules to Sends finalised schedules to provides bids to Local market area Provides capacity for Reports schedules to controls (netted) balance exchange schedule (CAX)
Sends data to
obtains category profiles from Profile maintenance party Production responsible party Consumption responsible party informs of metering points Is contracted with Is contracted with
Market area
1 Operates Transmission capacity allocator RTE - RWE border Common capacity area CBT National area Certificate area
Operates
Has a balance delivrey contract with Contracts with has a firm energy contract with
Nordpool
Producer
Consumer
3.6 Scope of the ETSO Scheduling System within the role model
Is composed of Is composed of Func tional group belong to 1 1..n Controls financially sends invoicing information to operates 1..n Market balance area 1..n Tennet REE NGC
p manages manages
(Netted) contr
Control block operator (netted) inter block excha nge schedule (CBS)
Ba lanc e group
Mar ket operator must have Se nds me tering information declares cons traints to or Deals within Makes contracts with sends schedules to Sends finalised schedules to provides bids to Metered data aggregator Trades externally with 1 sends schedules to System operator Exchanges cross bor de r capacity (CAS) Germany Is composed of Local market area Provides capacity for Reports schedules to controls (nette d) balance exchange sche dule (CAX)
provides available transfer capacity Facilitates Production responsible par ty Consumption responsible party informs of m etering points administrator Is contrac ted w ith Is contracted with Transmission capacity allocator Balance supplier 1 Tr ade responsible par ty
Market area
1 Operates RTE - RWE border Common capacity area CBT National area Certificate are
Operates
Nordpool
ETSO CBT
France
3.7 Scope of the ETSO Settlement Process within the role model
Is composed of Is composed of Functional group belong to 1 1..n Controls financially sends invoicing informa tion to ope ra tes 1..n Market balance area 1..n Tennet REE NGC
Balance group
Market operator must have Sends metering information declares constraints to Makes contracts with Deals within sends schedules to Se nds finalised schedules to provides bids to Meter ed data aggre gator Tr ade s ex terna lly with 1 sends schedules to Sys tem operator Exchanges cross border capacity (CAS) Germany Pr ovides capacity for Reports schedules to controls (netted) b