Liberalised measuring data

1+1=3?

In a liberalised energy market, 1 kilowatt hour can increase to 10 or more. This is not particularly unusual. Energy and capacities are virtual commodities in the free market. Generated volumes are purchased and sold, divided again for resale, any over-deliveries are optioned and shortfalls are covered.

The volume of commercial transactions is dramatically increasing and consequently every business must be compensated with real supplies and delivery and billed accordingly. To do so, absolutely correct and binding accounting values are essential.

The billing and management of energy accounts is a complex process. Energy is generated on one point, measured on another and the transactions are agreed upon elsewhere. One market partner bills the customers, another is responsible for the balancing groups. In order that the individual calculations provide a logical pattern, it is imperative that every participant disposes of the same, authentic measuring data that was uniformly generated in the first instance.

Energy data under control

Metering data comes from calibrated metering devices.

In the practise however, measured values on the meter can be occasionally incorrect. Recording errors can occur when writing the results manually, errors can be due to a power failure, a breakdown in communication or simply a defective meter and they must be resolved. Even if gaps and errors appear in the retrieval; the data must be complete for billing.

EDW3000 is the ideal system, it enables the grid operator to validate and correct, if required, the measuring data with comprehensible and identical rules for all metering customers. The communication of provisional data and subsequent correction are part of its performance.

Binding plausibility rules such as the Dutch Metering Code can be automatically started in the system. The data exchange follows over standard interfaces such as LPEX, XML and EDIFACT.

Job management

Allow more freedom for yourself.

Manual operation of the different job steps is not only complicated and inefficient but no longer feasible with the expected increase in transaction volume.

The central job management in EDW3000 handles the processes easily and transparently. The individual steps from meter reading over plausibility check to transfer of the data to the billing system are automated and synchronised.

You can stipulate for every job step if it should wait until the previous one is finished, it should be triggered again because of an error or if a user must make a decision.

The continuous transparency of every procedure is combined with an historical mapping of the data. You are assured of absolute reliability for billing and balancing.