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Framework for energy market communications - Part 451-4: Settlement and
reconciliation business process, contextual and assembly models for European market
Kommunikation im Energiemarkt - Teil 451-4: Abwicklungs- und
Abstimmungsgeschäftsprozesse, kontextbezogene Modelle und Einbindungsmodelle für
den europäischen Markt
Cadre pour les communications pour le marché de l'énergie – Partie 451-4: Processus
métier de règlement des écarts et de réconciliation, modèles contextuels et modèles
d’assemblage pour le marché européen
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62325-451-4:2017
ICS:
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elektroenergetske sisteme power systems
33.200 Daljinsko krmiljenje, daljinske Telecontrol. Telemetering
meritve (telemetrija)
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 62325-451-4

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ICS 33.200 Supersedes EN 62325-451-4:2015
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Framework for energy market communications -
Part 451-4: Settlement and reconciliation business process,
contextual and assembly models for European market
(IEC 62325-451-4:2017)
Cadre pour les communications pour le marché de l'énergie Kommunikation im Energiemarkt -
- Partie 451-4: Processus métier de règlement des écarts et Teil 451-4: Abwicklungs- und
de réconciliation, modèles contextuels et modèles Abstimmungsgeschäftsprozesse, kontextbezogene Modelle
d'assemblage pour le marché européen und Einbindungsmodelle für den europäischen Markt
(IEC 62325-451-4:2017) (IEC 62325-451-4:2017)
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The text of document 57/1737/CDV, future edition 2 of IEC 62325-451-4, prepared by
IEC/TC 57 "Power systems management and associated information exchange" was submitted to the
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IEC 61968-11 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61968-11.
IEC 61970-301 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61970-301.
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC/TS 61970-2 -  Energy management system application CLC/TS 61970-2 -
program interface (EMS-API) -
Part 2: Glossary
IEC 62325-301 -  Framework for energy market EN 62325-301 -
communications -
Part 301: Common information model
(CIM) extensions for markets
IEC 62325-351 -  Framework for energy market EN 62325-351 -
communications -
Part 351: CIM European market model
exchange profile
IEC 62325-450 2013 Framework for energy market EN 62325-450 2013
communications -
Part 450: Profile and context modelling
rules
IEC 62325-451-1 -  Framework for energy market EN 62325-451-1 -
communications -
Part 451-1: Acknowledgement business
process and contextual model for CIM
European market
IEC 62325-451-2 -  Framework for energy market EN 62325-451-2 -
communications -
Part 451-2: Scheduling business process
and contextual models for European
market
IEC 62361-100 -  Power systems management and EN 62361-100 -
associated information exchange -
Interoperability in the long term -
Part 100: CIM profiles to XML schema
mapping
IEC 62325-451-4 ®
Edition 2.0 2017-04
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Framework for energy market communications –

Part 451-4: Settlement and reconciliation business process, contextual and

assembly models for European market

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 6
INTRODUCTION . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms and definitions . 10
4 Document contextual model and message assembly model basic concepts . 11
4.1 Overview. 11
4.2 European style market package structure . 12
4.3 From the European style market profile to the document contextual model . 14
4.4 From the document contextual model to the message assembly model . 14
4.5 From the assembly model to the XML schema . 14
5 The settlement and reconciliation business process . 14
5.1 Balance responsible party and settlement . 14
5.2 Overall business context . 16
5.3 Use cases . 16
5.4 Process flow . 18
5.5 Business rules for the settlement and reconciliation process . 20
5.5.1 General . 20
5.5.2 Attributes area_Domain.mRID and domain.mRID and quantity . 21
5.5.3 Dependency matrix for type, processType and businessType . 21
5.5.4 Dependency of attributes of the TimeSeries . 22
5.5.5 Rules governing the Point class . 23
5.5.6 Attribute price.amount . 23
6 Contextual and assembly models. 24
6.1 Energy account contextual model. 24
6.1.1 Overview of the model . 24
6.1.2 IsBasedOn relationships from the European style market profile . 24
6.1.3 Detailed Energy account contextual model . 25
6.2 Energy account assembly model . 33
6.2.1 Overview of the model . 33
6.2.2 IsBasedOn relationships from the European style market profile . 35
6.2.3 Detailed Energy account assembly model . 35
6.2.4 Primitives . 39
6.2.5 Datatypes . 39
6.2.6 Enumerations . 48
7 XML schema . 48
7.1 XML schema URN namespace rules . 48
7.2 Code list URN namespace rules . 49
7.3 URI rules for model documentation . 49
7.3.1 Datatype . 49
7.3.2 Class . 49
7.3.3 Attribute . 50
7.3.4 Association end role name . 50
7.4 EnergyAccount_MarketDocument schema . 50
7.4.1 Schema Structure . 50
7.4.2 Schema description . 53

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Bibliography . 59

Figure 1 – IEC 62325-450 modelling framework . 12
Figure 2 – Overview of European style market profile dependency. 13
Figure 3 – Balance responsible party relations . 15
Figure 4 – Settlement/reconciliation use case . 18
Figure 5 – Sequence diagram of the information flow . 19
Figure 6 – Energy account contextual model . 24
Figure 7 – Energy account assembly model . 34
Figure 8 – EnergyAccount_MarketDocument XML Schema Structure 1/2 . 51
Figure 9 – EnergyAccount_MarketDocument XML Schema Structure 2/2 . 52

Table 1 – Dependency table for type, processType and businessType . 22
Table 2 – Dependency table for TimeSeries attributes . 23
Table 3 – Dependency table for price.amount attribute . 23
Table 4 – IsBasedOn dependency. 24
Table 5 – Attributes of Energy account contextual
model::EnergyAccount_MarketDocument . 25
Table 6 – Association ends of Energy account contextual
model::EnergyAccount_MarketDocument with other classes . 26
Table 7 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Currency_Unit . 26
Table 8 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Domain . 27
Table 9 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::MarketAgreement . 27
Table 10 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::MarketEvaluationPoint . 27
Table 11 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::MarketParticipant . 27
Table 12 – Association ends of Energy account contextual model::MarketParticipant
with other classes . 28
Table 13 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::MarketRole. 28
Table 14 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Measure_Unit . 28
Table 15 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model:: Party_MarketParticipant . 28
Table 16 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Point . 29
Table 17 – Association ends of Energy account contextual model ::Point with other
classes . 29
Table 18 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Price . 30
Table 19 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Process . 30
Table 20 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Quantity . 30
Table 21 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Reason . 31
Table 22 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Series_Period . 31
Table 23 – Association ends of Energy account contextual model::Series_Period with
other classes . 31
Table 24 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::Time_Period . 31
Table 25 – Attributes of Energy account contextual model::TimeSeries . 32
Table 26 – Association ends of Energy account contextual model::TimeSeries with
other classes . 32
Table 27 – IsBasedOn dependency . 35

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Table 28 – Attributes of Energy account assembly
model::EnergyAccount_MarketDocument . 35
Table 29 – Association ends of Energy account assembly
model::EnergyAccount_MarketDocument with other classes . 36
Table 30 – Attributes of Energy account assembly model::Point . 36
Table 31 – Association ends of Energy account assembly model:: Point with other
classes . 37
Table 32 – Attributes of Energy account assembly model::Reason . 37
Table 33 – Attributes of Energy account assembly model::Series_Period . 38
Table 34 – Association ends of Energy account assembly model:: Series_Period with
other classes . 38
Table 35 – Attributes of Energy account assembly model::TimeSeries . 38
Table 36 – Association ends of Energy account assembly model:: TimeSeries with
other classes . 39
Table 37 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::Action_Status . 40
Table 38 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ESMP_DateTimeInterval . 40
Table 39 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::Amount_Decimal . 40
Table 40 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::Amount_Decimal . 40
Table 41 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::AreaID_String. 41
Table 42 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::AreaID_String . 41
Table 43 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::BusinessKind_String . 41
Table 44 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ClassificationKind_String . 41
Table 45 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::CurrencyCode_String . 42
Table 46 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::EnergyProductKind_String . 42
Table 47 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ESMP_DateTime . 42
Table 48 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::ESMP_DateTime . 42
Table 49 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ESMPVersion_String . 43
Table 50 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::ESMPVersion_String . 43
Table 51 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ID_String . 43
Table 52 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::ID_String . 43
Table 53 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::MarketRoleKind_String . 44
Table 54 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::MeasurementPointID_String . 44
Table 55 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes:: MeasurementPointID_String . 44
Table 56 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::MeasurementUnitKind_String . 44
Table 57 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::MessageKind_String . 45
Table 58 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ObjectAggregationKind_String . 45
Table 59 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::PartyID_String . 45
Table 60 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::PartyID_String . 45
Table 61 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::Position_Integer . 46
Table 62 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::Position_Integer . 46
Table 63 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ProcessKind_String . 46
Table 64 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::Quality_String . 46
Table 65 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ReasonCode_String . 47
Table 66 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::ReasonText_String . 47
Table 67 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::ReasonText_String . 47

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Table 68 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::Status_String . 47
Table 69 – Attributes of ESMPDataTypes::YMDHM_DateTime . 48
Table 70 – Restrictions of attributes for ESMPDataTypes::YMDHM_DateTime . 48

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FOREWORD
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International Standard IEC 62325-451-4 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 57:
Power systems management and associated information exchange.
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2014. This edition
constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous
edition:
a) Removal of the attributes “quantity” and “secondary quantity” of the class “Point”;
b) Introduction of the class “Quantity” from IEC 62351-351 UML package, with the following
attributes “quantity” as mandatory and “quality” as optional, and create two association
1.1 between the class “Quantity” and the class “Point” with the role “In_Quantity” and
“Out_Quantity”.
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c) Introduction of the class “Reason” from IEC 62351-351 UML package, with the following
attributes “code” as mandatory and “text” as optional, and create an association 0.* from
the class “Reason” to the class “Point” with the role “Reason”.
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INTRODUCTION
This standard is one of the IEC 62325 series which define protocols for deregulated energy
market communications.
The principal objective of the IEC 62325 series is to produce standards which facilitate the
integration of market application software developed independently by different vendors into a
market management system, between market management systems and market participant
systems. This is accomplished by defining message exchanges to enable these applications
or systems access to public data and exchange information independent of how such
information is represented internally.
The common information model (CIM) specifies the basis for the semantics for this message
exchange.
The European style market profile (ESMP) is based on different parts of the CIM IEC
standard. The CIM is defined through a series of standards, i.e. IEC 62325-301, IEC 61970-
301 and IEC 61968-11.
This document provides the settlement and reconciliation business process that can be used
throughout a European style market. This standard was originally based upon the work of the
European Transmission System Operators (ETSO) Task Force EDI (Electronic Data
Interchange) and then on the work of the European Network of Transmission System
Operators (ENTSO-E) Working Group EDI.
This document describes the settlement and reconciliation process for wholesale markets; it is
brought to the attention of the reader that it is envisaged to initiate work on a combined
reconciliation process for retail and wholesale markets.

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contextual and assembly models for European market

1 Scope
Based on the European style market profile (ESMP) (IEC 62325-351), this part of IEC 62325-
451 specifies a package for the settlement and reconciliation business process and the
associated document contextual model, assembly model and XML schema for use within
European style markets.
The relevant aggregate core components (ACCs) defined in IEC 62325-351 have been
contextualised into aggregated business information entities (ABIEs) to satisfy the
requirements of this business process. The contextualised ABIEs have been assembled into
the relevant document contextual models. Related assembly models and XML schema for the
exchange of information between market participants are automatically generated from the
assembled document contextual models.
This part of IEC 62325 provides a uniform layout for the transmission of aggregated data in
order to settle the electricity market. It is however not the purpose of this document to define
the formula to be taken into account to settle or reconcile a market. The purpose of this
document is only to enable the information exchange necessary to carry out the computation
of settlement and reconciliation.
The settlement process or reconciliation process is the way to compute the final position of
each market participant as well as its imbalance amounts.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their
content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition
cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including
any amendments) applies.
IEC TS 61970-2, Energy management system application program interface (EMS-API) –
Part 2: Glossary
IEC 62325-301, Framework for energy market communications – Part 301: Common
information model (CIM) extensions for markets
IEC 62325-351, Framework for energy market communications – Part 351: CIM European
market model exchange profile
IEC 62325-450:2013, Framework for energy market communications – Part 450: Profile and
context modelling rules
IEC 62325-451-1, Framework for energy market communications – Part 451-1:
Acknowledgement business process and contextual model for CIM European market
IEC 62325-451-2, Framework for energy market communications – Part 451-2: Scheduling
business process and contextual model for CIM European market
IEC 62361-100, Power systems management and associated information exchange –
Interoperability in the long term – Part 100: CIM profiles to XML schema mapping

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3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IEC TS 61970-2 and the
following apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following
addresses:
• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
• ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp
NOTE Refer to IEC 60050, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, for general glossary definitions.
3.1
aggregate business information entity
ABIE
collection of related pieces of business information that together convey a distinct business
meaning in a specific Business Context
Note 1 to entry Expressed in modelling terms, this is the representation of an object class, independent of any
specific business context.
[SOURCE: ISO/TS 15000-5:2014, 3.1]
3.2
aggregate core component
ACC
collection of related pieces of business information that together convey a distinct business
meaning, independent of any specific Business Context
[SOURCE: ISO/TS 15000-5:2014, 3.2]
3.3
application program interface
API
set of public functions provided by an executable application component for use by other
executable application components
3.4
assembly model
model that prepares information in a business context for assembly into electronic documents
for data interchange
3.5
based on
IsBasedOn
use of an artefact that has been restricted according to the requirements of a specific
business context
[SOURCE: IEC 62325-450:2013, 3.4]
3.6
business context
formal description of a specific business circumstance as identified by the values of a set of
context categories, allowing different business circumstances to be uniquely distinguished
[SOURCE: UN/Cefact, Unified Context Methodology Technical Specification]

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3.7
information model
representation of concepts, relationships, constraints, rules, and operations to specify data
semantics for a chosen domain of discourse
Note 1 to entry It can provide shareable, stable, and organized structure of information requirements for the
domain context.
3.8
market management system
MMS
computer system comprised of a software platform providing basic support services and a set
of applications providing the functionality needed for the effective management of the
electricity market
Note 1 to entry These software systems in an electricity market may include support for capacity allocation,
scheduling energy, ancillary or other services, real-time operations and settlements.
3.9
message business information entity
MBIE
aggregation of a set of ABIEs that respects a define set of assembly rules
4 Document contextual model and message assembly model basic concepts
4.1 Overview
IEC 62325-450 defines a set of CIM profiles that follows a layered modelling framework as
outlined in Figure 1 going from the common information model (CIM, IEC 61968-11,
IEC 61970-301 and IEC 62325-301), to different regional contextual models and their
subsequent contextualized documents for information exchange; the final step being the
message specifications for information interchange.

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IEC
Figure 1 – IEC 62325-450 modelling framework
The regional contextual models are the basic core components that are necessary to build
electronic documents for information interchange. This is defined in the European style
market contextual model (IEC 62325-351). These core components are also termed
aggregate core components (ACCs).
A document contextual model is based upon a specific business requirements specification
and is constructed from the contextualisation of the ACCs that can be found in the European
style market contextual model. The contextualised ACCs at this stage are terms aggregate
business information entities (ABIEs) These ABIEs are the constructs that are assembled
together into a specific electronic document to satisfy the information requirements outlined in
the business requirements specification. The transformation from an ACC to an ABIE shall
respect the rules defined in IEC 62325-450.
Once a document contextual model has been built that satisfactorily meets the business
requirements, a message assembly model can be automatically generated from it.
XML schema may then be automatically generated from the message assembly model. If
necessary, specific mapping can take place at this stage to transform the CIM class names
and attribute names into legacy market names.
4.2 European style market package structure
Figure 2 describes the main package structure of the European style market profile (ESMP).

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IEC
Figure 2 – Overview of European style market
profile dependency
For each business process, a business process package is described in an IEC 62325-451-x
(x from 1 to n) standard. A business process package contains:
• The document contextual model (ABIE) and the automatically generated message
assembly model (MBIE) for each electronic document required to enable the completion of
the business process. Each document is a sub contextual model derived by restriction
from the European style market profile.
• The XML schema of the business document that is automatically generated from the
message assembly model.
The European style market profile (ESMP), as defined in IEC 62325-351, provides the core
components permitted for use in an IEC 62325-451-x standard as all ABIEs shall be “based
on” the IEC 62325-351 core components:
• ESMPClasses: Defining all the semi-contextual classes of the European style market
profile derived by restriction from the CIM model.
• ESMPDataTypes: Defining all the core datatypes used within the ESMP classes.

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All the core components that are used in every electronic document structure have been
harmonized and centralized in the European style market profile. These core components are
consequently the basic building blocks from which all electronic document ABIEs are derived.
4.3 From the European style market profile to the document contextual model
The document contextual model for a given business process is constructed by an information
analyst who identifies all the information requirements necessary to satisfy the business
process.
Once the information requirements have been identified the information analyst identifies the
related ACCs that are available in the European style market profile and contextualises them
to meet the information requirements. This contextualisation step creates a set of aggregate
business information entities (ABIEs).
In a final step the information analyst assembles together into a specific document contextual
model package the ABIEs to form a document model satisfying the business requirements.
4.4 From the document contextual model to the message assembly model
Once the document contextual model has been finalised, the message assembly model may
be automatically generated.
All document contextual models share the same core components and core datatypes. These
are defined in the European style market profile (IEC 62325-351) and are contextualised and
refined in all document contextual models (IEC 62325-451-x series) respecting the rules as
described in IEC 62325-450.
4.5 From the assembly model to the XML schema
The final modelling step applies a standardized set of criteria in order to generate a uniform
XML schema from the assembly model. This transformation process respects the rules
defined in IEC 62361-100.
5 The settlement and reconciliation business process
5.1 Balance responsible party and settlement
As indicated in the IEC 62325-301 “MarketRoleKind enumeration”, in the European style
electricity market, a balance responsible party could be defined as:
• A party that has a contract proving financial security and identifying balance responsibility
with the imbalance settlement responsible for the market balance area entitling the party
to operate in the market. This is the only role allowing a party to nominate energy on a
wholesale level.
NOTE The meaning of the word "balance" in this context signifies that the quantity contracted to provide or to
consume shall be equal to the quantity really provided or consumed.
The role of balance responsible party is linked to the role of balance supplier, i.e.
• A party that markets the difference between actual metered energy consumption and the
energy bought with firm energy contracts by the party connected to the grid. In addition
the balance supplier markets any difference with the firm energy contract (of the party
connected to the grid) and the metered production. There is one balance supplier for each
accounting point.
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Figure 3 – Balance responsible party relations
class Balance responsible part relations
The balance responsible party could provide ancillary
services and/or balancing services to a system operator.
This transaction is accounted either as "generation" or
"consumption" for the settlement, i.e. increase or decrease of
Balance responsible
generation, demand response, etc.
party
(from Actors)
System operator
(from The trade responsible party could exchange energy with
Contract agreement to be included in
Actors)
other trade responsible party through bilateral (over
the balance responsible party settlement.
the counter) transactions (national or international
transactions).
This transaction is accounted as generation or
consumption for the settlement.
Trade responsible
Balance supplier
Other trade
party
responsible party
(from
(from
Actors)
Actors)
A party connected to the grid
The trade responsible party could buy or sell
could sell or buy its measured
energy on power exchange.
generation or consumption.
This transaction is accounted as "generation"
Metered values are thus
or "consumption" for the settlement, i.e. "in
necessary to define that was
quantity" or "out quantity".
A party connected to the grid could
really injected or withdrawn
sell or buy a block of energy.
from the grid.
This transaction is accounted
Depending upon the meter
either as "generation" or
equipment, profile could be
"consumption" for the settlement.
used to estimate the energy
values.
Power exchange
Party connected to
Party connected to
Party connected to
the grid_1
the grid
(from the grid_n
Actors)
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A party connected to the grid could be defined as:
• A party that contracts for the right to consume or produce electricity at an
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