Energy Management

7.1 Principles of Energy Management

Last but not least, energy markets require transparency and auditing. Many services that used to be bundled must now be all separately identied and accounted for, detailed market compliance monitoring must be performed, and extensive archiving of it all must be possible. Communication As extensive communication between the control center and the various market participants such as power producers, distribution companies, energy exchanges and traders will increase greatly. Whilst some communication media have been already in use in the control center, the use of open media such as internet will expand signicantly. And the many new market interactions such as network access/capacity requests, ancillary market requests, etc. will require new solutions using this new communication infrastructure. The OASIS system (Open Access Same-Time Information system) for reserving transmission capacity in the United States is an example of an existing system of this kind. Fundamental changes to the properties of network control systems Many of the ISO/TSO functions will no longer be self-serving but instead will be to serve the market participants towards open and fair access to the network. Whilst many functions will remain the same as those prior to unbundling, many of the tools needed by the ISO/TSO for executing them will rest with the market participants. The ISO/TSO will therefore need to buy the use of these tools from the market participants whilst building its own revenue through network access fees. Many new functions will also be required to support an open and fair access to the network to all market participants particularly when to manage network congestion (e.g. locational marginal pricing), transfer capacity limitation (e.g. cross-border capacity auctioning), etc. To guarantee open and fair access to the network and equal treatment between all market participants, many of these functions will be using market mechanisms. This implies that many of the solutions developed for these functions will be nancially-driven whilst still addressing the same physical problems and therefore will require a lot more integration with back ofce functions such as, for example, settlement. Network calculations The basic functions, such as state estimator, load ow calculation, short-circuit calculation and contingency analysis, will not normally be inuenced by the restructuring. However an application such as optimal power ow considering availability/ controllability of generation resources will be affected by the restructuring of the energy business. The total cost optimization of generation is no longer the responsibility of the ISO/TSO but that of each market participants. But the use of generation (MW and Volt/VAr) whether for security violation relief or network loss reduction, still responsibilities of the ISO/TSO, will require the application to account for the cost of using (variable cost) that

Energy trading

Customer service

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Business processes

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Fig. 7.1-11: : Integration on the various process layers

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