Trading Systems for the liberalised Electricity Market

EGL are one of the most influential energy companies in Europe having been the centre of co-ordination and load flow through the UCPTE until February 1999. They have been trading electricity for more than 30 years in and through Switzerland and are widely recognised by major trading partners across Europe (such as EdF and RWE).

Syseca worked closely with EGL as part of an International team to develop a completely new Energy Management and Information System (EMIS) to meet their needs in the new liberalised electricity market including:

Spot market trading
OTC contract handling· Energy Balancing and Production Planning
Defining Market Partners
Contact Management
Complex but User Friendly Reporting
Data preparation and transfer to SAP for billing and customer account reconciliation
Highly ergonomic and user friendly Graphical Interface
Interfaces to Power Exchange systems
Meter data collection
Risk Management/controlling/reconciliation
Basic functionality for energy trading over the internet

This on-going project continues to develop as trading practices in Europe evolve enabling EGL to stay ahead of their competition

Electronic Dispatching and Instruction Logging

Short Description:

ESB National Grid (soon to become EirGrid) is responsible for the operation of Ireland's electricity transmission system, including scheduling and dispatching generation, thereby ensuring system security.

Syseca implemented a completely new, innovative Electronic Dispatch Instruction Logging (EDIL) solution to enable ESB National Grid to communicate essential dispatch instructions and power station operational data between the National Control Centre in Dublin and all of the centrally controlled Generating Stations around Ireland.

This information is issued in real time (in some cases directly over the Internet) to ensure that each generating station is operating at the required output level on a minute by minute basis.

The information is then forwarded to the Irish Settlement System Administrator (also part of ESB National Grid) and forms a critical element of the information used to calculate payments to Generators (or to charge penalties should these arise).