Market Management System

DAMAS

> Comprehensive support of trading processes

of transmission system operators and other

market players

> Support of ETSO standards and full

compatibility with UCTE operation guides

and EU legislature

> Automated operation and business process

management

> Guaranteed reliability and high availability

> Unique configuration capabilities

and flexibility

> Built-in MS Office integration

> Ready to integrate by standard Web Services

interface using universal XML format

Damas in the TSOsDamas is designed to fully support market-related

processes of the transmission system operators:

> System Services

> Transmission Services

> Settlement Services

System ServicesTSOs employ system services to ensure quality and

reliability of the electricity supply on the transmis-

sion system level and to fulfill their international

obligations and conditions of the interconnection

of electrification systems. The quality is understood

namely in terms of frequency and voltage para-

meters, defined by the Grid Codes according to UCTE

standards.

Ancillary Services> C o m p r e h e n s i v e s u p p o r t f o r p r o c u r e m e n t

of Ancillar y Services. Defining plans of needs,

specifying demands, purchasing in long-term and

short-term tenders and , evidence of the contracts

concluded with providers.

> Certification and administration of technical para-

meters of generation and consumption units pro-

viding ancillary services.

> Preparation of transmission system operation

based on the generation scheduling at the power

unit level.

> Evaluation of provided ancillary services in terms

of technical quality.

Balancing Energy> Purchasing the balancing energy in the day-ahead

and intra-day markets.

> Evaluat ion of the balancing energy result ing

from the act ivat ion of anci l lar y ser vices and

from other sources (e. g. abroad).

> Communication with SCADA system and other

supporting applications.

Damas is a complex market management system, primarily designed and developed for needs

of Transmission System Operators (TSOs) working in an open electricity market environment.

Business drivers for Damas design were to cover all key market-related processes of system

and ancillary services, transmission services, and nomination management, as well as the evaluation

and financial settlement. From the time perspective, Damas supports all phases of the TSO‘s business,

from the predictions, long-term operational planning and procurement, through the day-ahead

and intra-day operation, to the ex-post evaluation, settlement, and invoicing.

The following technological requirements were the main design drivers for the Damas platform: high

flexibility, extensive user configuration options, high reliability and availability, transparency and security,

and standardized interfaces to external environment.

Transmissions ServicesThis subsystem of Damas provides support for all activi-

ties concerning the cross-border transmission of electric-

ity and congestion management, namely capacity alloca-

tion and nomination.

The main functional domains of Transmissions Services

are:

> Long-term, daily and intra-day allocation of transmis-

sion capacities in both explicit and implicit auctions

> Administration of capacity rights

> Secondary market (capacity transfers and resales)

> Nomination management including international match-

ing (on the control area, block, and zone levels)

> Special nominations (SO–SO trades, compensations,

etc.)

> Capacity curtailment and real-time reduction

> Risk management and financial security

> Automatic data exchange with market participants and

authorities (TSOs, ENTSO-E)

Damas is fully compatible with established industrial

standards (EU legislation, ENTSO-E guidelines and hand-

books, ETSO ESS and ECAN data standards). Legal

issues have also been carefully studied to provide the

highest security level and to comply with the EU legisla-

tion while keeping the system simple enough for users

and for third-party integrators. The communication with

neighboring TSOs via the Electronic Highway is supported,

as well as the integration with ETSOVista platform.

Settlement ServicesThis subsystem of Damas covers all processes and

activities connected with the responsibility of the TSO

to physically and financially evaluate and settle the

market transactions.

The main functional domains covered are:

> Receiving and processing of bi lateral schedules

between Balance Responsible Par ties (BRPs) using

ETSO ESS Standard.

> Checking the scheduled volumes against the available

financial security (risk management),

> Aggregation of metered values and balancing energy

data,

> Calculation of total system imbalance, imbalance

volumes and prices for every BRP.

Besides, this subsystem provides the sett lement

services for all other subsystems and their commodi-

ties (ancillary services, balancing energy, transmission

capacity rights, fees, penalties etc.), resulting in regular

aggregated payments (daily, monthly, yearly) transferred

to the accounting and invoicing systems. All relevant

data can be published as reports.

Damas PlatformIn order to efficiently meet the requirements of the

business, we have designed and developed Damas

platform as an enterprise solution based on many

years of experience in building information systems

for the power industr y, especially for TSOs, and

responding to the ever-increasing demand for highly

flexible, vendor-independent solutions.

Damas platform includes, among others, the follow-

ing components:

> Damas Time Series Engine

> Damas Computation Scripting Engine

> Damas MS Office Integration

> Damas Visual Workflow Engine

> Damas View Configurator

> Damas Messaging Engine

> Damas Data Bridge

Damas Time Series EngineDamas system kernel is based on t ime series

which are used as the primary data storage. A time

unit assigned to each time series determines the

granularity of its values. The system supports any

time units from minutes up. Time series are widely

configurable in the system by both its adminis-

trators and the end users, who can use intuitive

wizards to create custom time series and define

all their properties. The time series are classified

hierarchically, to provide for easy orientation within

the system, as there are thousands of times series

in typical Damas implementations.

Damas Computation Scripting EngineDamas platform incorporates powerful computation

capabilities. There can be any number of defined

computing operations between time series using

a wide range of common computing operators

and functions. The computations themselves are

performed either immediately (when any input value

changes) or can be invoked manually or from the

workflow engine. Complex algorithms can be easily

programmed specifically and then plugged into the

system.

Damas MS Office IntegrationDamas MS Office Integration allows the user to

export and import data into MS Office applications.

The user can easily edit the data offline e. g. in MS

Excel environment and upload them back later.

Damas Visual Workflow EngineDamas Visual Workflow Engine allows to define

process diagrams using the system configuration

tools. The process diagram is later tied to a particular

business component, as a tool ensuring possibly

fully automatic operation of the entire system.

The user is notified of the state of each component

at the lowest level or can monitor the system state

based on the high-level process indicators.

Process diagrams are used to control all operations

which should be executed automatically at speci-

fied times, such as data transfers, calculations, etc.

Process management is also used to define user

access permissions to data, which may differ accord-

ing to the particular business process states.

Damas View ConfiguratorDamas View Configurator defines all the data views.

The first step in the definition of a view is an assign-

ment of filtering components, allowing you to find

data matching a number of criteria. Then you can

add a list or matrix of items matching the filter-

ing criteria, which is used to select a specific item

to view or edit.

The data view itself is presented to the user as

a widely configurable data grid. Define time series

data displayed on the X axis and on the Y axis to

build different views of the same data. It is not neces-

sar y to show the displayed data of time series

using the basic time unit of the time series; the

systems performs necessary aggregations and dis-

aggregations automatically, allowing to define even

truly statistical data views.

View administration is designed to be performed

by a trained user, without any programming.

Damas Messaging EngineMost of the users usually want to be informed

about the act iv i t ies in the system. In Damas,

the distr ibut ion of events is real ized through

Messaging Engine. For any event (e. g. data entering,

opening/closing a gate, generating of report), the

authorized user can define if and through which com-

munication channel they want to be informed about

the event. Supported channels are internal message

in the system, e-mail, SMS, and web service.

Damas Data BridgeA general web service interface is available in Damas,

based on ETSO XML standards on the logical level,

allowing the easy transfer of any data between

Damas and external systems at the time series

level. With this interface, it is possible to connect

Damas to another SW application without develop-

ment, just by means of configuration. In addition

to web services, e-mail and FTP communication is

also supported.

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ABOUT UNICORN SYSTEMSUnicorn Systems ranks among the most significant

European information systems providers. Since 1990 we

have been delivering high value added and competitive

advantages to our clients. Our broad knowledge and

experience enables us to design optimum ICT solutions.

We implement these complex solutions successfully

into the client’s background according to their specified

quality, scope, time and budget.

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European Energy segment. During the past 10 years,

Unicorn Systems has delivered many successful projects

to power companies throughout Europe. Its unique

know how in the Energy sector and rich experience

allows Unicorn Systems to deliver high quality solutions

for competitive prices.

Benefits > Easy process setup – set-up and manage your business

processes with our Damas Visual Workflow Engine.

> Information on hand – be always up-to-date

with the Damas Messaging Engine.

> Be interconnected – with Damas Data Bridge you will

be always connected to your internal systems or trading

partners.

> See what you want – create your own or modify view

with the Damas Time Series View Configurator.

> Customize your system – modify the system to your needs

with Damas Time Series Engine.

> Your business is changing? – modify the algorithms

with Damas Computation Scripting Engine.

> Excel sheets allowed! – with our MS Office Integration

component you can connect to MS Office documents.

References

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