Konstantin Staschus

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Liberalised energy markets Data exchange
crucial for customer choice,crucial for the
benefits of competition
European forum for energy Business Information
eXchange
April, 2005

• Konstantin Staschus
• Chairman, ebIX Forum
• Konstantin.staschus_at_vdn-berlin.de

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Why is data exchange important?

• Main benefits for the European economies and
  citizens of competitive energy markets within the
  European internal market
• Cost effective use of generation resources,
  including optimal Europe-wide power plant
  dispatch
• Optimal and sufficient investment in new
  generation resources
• Customer choice

• Customer choice crucial since it helps achieve
  the other two goals.
• Enabling customers in the different Member States
  to choose and change their electricity suppliers
  freelyOne of the most important goals for the
  IEM.

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What enables customer choice?

• The ability for suppliers to offer their products
  to customers in other countries cost-effectively

• This necessitates an easy understanding of the
  rules for customer switching, i.e. rules that are
  harmonised and well-known
• Clear and harmonised definitions of the data
  needed for switching a customer from one supplier
  to another, and of the way the meter data get
  transferred to the suppliers
• In short Harmonised data exchange processes,
  ebIX raison detre
• Advance, develop and standardise the use of
  electronic information exchange in the energy
  industry

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ebIX - Objective and goals

• Develop e-business standards for the European
  energy market

• Make standards independent of syntax and
  communication
• Cover exchange of administrative data
• Cover both the whole-sale and retail market for
  both gas and electricity
• Promote and advance the standardisation process
  in the European energy market
• Contact and coordination with other EDI/XML
  standardization organizations
• Follow the rules of the European Union

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The ebIX organisation
Members Belgium Denmark Germany Norway Netherland
s Sweden Switzerland
National ebIX groups
ETC
Regular Observers Finland Austria Nord Pool
CuS
EMD
...
ebIX projects and working groups
National projects
ETC ebIX Technical Committee EMD ebIX Exchange of
Metered Data project CuS ebIX structuring of the
energy market (Customer Switching) project
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The history of ebIX (Ediel)
Nord Pool ASA starts EDI-project
1993 Co-operation Norway and Sweden 1994 Ediel
Nordic Forum established 1995 The Netherlands and
Germany becomeobservers 1998 France joins the
CoS project 2000 Belgium becomes
observer 2001 ebIX (European forum for energy
Business Information eXchange) is formed as a
European standardisation body 2003
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ebIX messages/day - Sweden
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Energy standardisationbodies
Customer switching Project
TF-IT
eBES
observer
Common Harmonisation group and members
TF-14
TC57/WG16
EEG1
?
?
Member
ebIX, European forum for energy Business
Information eXchange
EMD
CuS
ETC
ebIX structuring of the energy market project
ebIX metered data project
ebIX Technical Committee
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Why is data exchange difficult?It was easy in
the integrated utility!
Production Network Supply Metering Data
exchange Settlement Reconciliation Billing
Competition Unbundling
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Why is data exchange difficult?E.g. organize
settlement
Production
TSO
AMR
Grid area
DGO Reconciliation
Organize Reconciliation
Balancearea
Balancearea
Profiled
Supply
Balancearea
Balancearea
Balancearea
Grid area
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Why is data exchangedifficult? E.g. organize
reconciliation
Production
TSO
AMR
DGO
Organize Billing
Grid area
Balancearea
Supply
Balancearea
Balancearea
Profiled
Balancearea
Balancearea
Balancearea
Balancearea
Grid area
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Why is data exchange difficult?E.g. organize
billing
Production
TSO
AMR
Network fee
Roles and Domains
DGO
Grid area
Balancearea
Balancearea
Balancearea
Supply
Balancearea
Balancearea
Profiled
Balancearea
Network fee
Grid area
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Why is data exchangedifficult?Roles and Domains

• TSO
• DGO
• Meter Service Provider
• Metering point administrator
• Meter data collector
• Metered data aggregator
• Balance responsible party
• Balance supplier
• Supplier
• Customer
• Producer

• Control area
• Metering grid area
• Balance group
• Metering point
• Meter
• Meter register

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ebIX Technical Committee (ETC)

• A permanent ebIX working group

• Responsible for the technical part of the ebIX
  standards, such as? ebIX Modelling
  methodology? ebIX European energy domain model?
  ebIX Business information models ? ebIX Core
  Components? ebIX Registry and repository? ebIX
  Functional description? ebIX XML and EDIFACT
  Implementation Guides

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ebIX Modelling Methodology

• A guide for ebIX projects and wgs

• Describes? how to create and manage ebIX
  projects? how to model according to ebIX
  rules? how to make syntax specific
  business documents? how to maintain and change
  models and business document
• Based on? UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology
  (UMM)? UN/CEFACT Business Collaboration
  Framework? ebIX/ETSO Role model

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Why do modelling ?

• European change process? Deregulation of
  earlier monopoly ? Splitting of companies?
  Merging of companies ? Internationalisation

• New standards and technology, such as ? ebXML
  ? UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM)

A deregulated European energy marketwill not
work withoutstandards for exchange of information
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ebIX,Exchange of metered data

• Make a model for the exchange of metered data
  between parties in the upstream European energy
  market ? Fit into the overall ebIX model of
  the deregulated European energy market ? Give a
  basis for a common way of exchanging metered
  data in the upstream energy market

• Business document Implementation Guides for both
  XML and EDIFACT

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ebIX,Customer Switching (CuS)

• Make a model for the exchange of structuring data
  in the European energy market ? Customer
  switching? Customer move? End of supply
  ? Maintenance of master data? etc.

• Business document Implementation Guides for both
  XML and EDIFACT

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ebIX,Energy business domain model
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Structuring, role model
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Structure
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Structure,Customer switching
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Structure, Customer switching
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Structure, Customer switching
New balance supplier
Old balance supplier
Metering point administrator
Start
Make contract
with new consumer
ltltCommercialTransactionActivitygtgt
ltltRespondingBusinessActivitygtgt
392/E03
Send request for change of
Process switch
metering point master data
Switch OK?
No
Yes
ltltRespondingBusinessActivitygtgt
Handle negative
414/E03 (negative)
Is there a balance supplier
confirmation of start of supply
connected to the MP?
Yes
End
No
ltltNotificationActivitygtgt
Notify of end of relation
ltltRespondingBusinessActivitygtgt
ltltRespondingBusinessActivitygtgt
E44/E03
414/E03 (positive)
Stop supply
Start supply
End
ltltRespondingBusinessActivitygtgt
To be continued....
Update
metering point db
End
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Structure, Customer switching
New balance supplier
Metering point administrator
ltltNotificationActivitygtgt
Send master data, metering point
Exchange master data
E07/E03
Exchange switch stand
ltltRespondingBusinessActivitygtgt
Update DB
End
End
End
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Structure, Business document 392, Request for
change of metering point master data (E03)
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Challenges

• Several bodies are involved in making e-business
  standards in the European energy market

• The rules, legislation, organisation of the
  market and level of deregulation differs between
  countries and regions
• Currently no EU directives on e-business
  standardisation in the energy market
• Complex and changing business processes

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Important issues

• Cooperation across boundaries? Electricity and
  gas? whole-sale (upstream) and retail
  (downstream)

• Harmonisation of standardisation initiatives?
  Common European energy domain model? Common
  European role model
• Harmonisation of rules and legislation
• Cooperation internationally,between the
  continents

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How to succeed

• Understand common problems and markets

• Formulate practical and efficient solutions
• Cooperate with the gas market to reach the goals
• Respect local market rules and solutions,i.e.
  make it possible to adapt to new standards
• Promote the lessons learned
• Try to obtain unanimous decisions
• Try to become the de-facto European
  standardisation-body for the energy market
• Base the work on voluntary participation,keeping
  the budget to a minimum

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Thank you for yourkind attention
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