NBS-keskustelutilaisuus 20.4.2015

1. Commissioning plan
NBS information day in Helsinki – 2015.04.20
Robert Thelander, NBS project, Svenska kraftnät

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The commission part of the information day will focus on…
About the commissioning plan
Overall time plan
Import of structure data
Testing
Go-live preparations

3. 3
Agenda
About the commissioning plan
Overall time plan
Import of structure data
Testing
Go-live preparations

4. 4
To smoothen the transition towards NBS, the market model and
necessary changes have been thoroughly documented
• Provides an overview of
the NBS model for all
market participants
• Clarifies rules, and
regulations as well as
local adaptations
• New version this week
www.esett.com
NBS Handbook
• Connection guidelines
describes the technical
integration towards
eSett
• Will be published in
June 2015
www.esett.com
Connection guideline
• The Commissioning
plan serves as a
guideline for all market
participants when
commissioning
• Launched today
www.esett.com
Commissioning plan

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To further describe the technical changes the BRS, XML user
guide and XML example files have been provided
• XML User guide is
based on the BRS and
aims to clarify technical
aspects of the change
based ENTSO-E
Implementation Guides
and ebIX®
www.ediel.org
XML User guide
• Business Requirement
Specification (BRS)
aims to detail the
information exchange
between the market
participants to enable
NBS
www.ediel.org
BRS
• XML example files have
been established to
enable and smoothen
the change for the
market participants
www.ediel.org
Example files for XML

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The establishment of a commissioning plan will support market
participants in their transition towards Nordic balance settlement
Background
• As part of the preparation for the commissioning (Go-Live) a
commissioning plan is critical to prepare and discuss with market
participants to support a smooth transition over to the new NBS
model.
Purpose
• Establishment of a commissioning plan for the hand over of
settlement business from TSOs to eSett. Including contingency plans,
training plans, communication plans, etc.
• This to support both eSett, TSOs and market participants.
Delimitations
• Descriptions of daily operations
• Only “one-time events” to be covered by the commissioning plan, day-
to-day routines to be covered by the NBS handbook

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The commissioning plan focus on issues that influence market
participants and TSOs during the commissioning period
Commissioning plan
Chapter Content
1. Introduction
• Introduction to the commissioning plan
• Purpose
• Goal
2. Commissioning
• Definition of commissioning
• Defining the different phases of commissioning
3. Organization and resources
• eSett organization and available resources
• Structure of eSett customer service
4. Training of all parties
• Training
• Online Service
• User accounts
5. Market preparations
• Establishment of MGAs in Finland and Norway
• Handling of corrections
• Reporting on RE-level
6. Quality assurance
• Shadow settlement
• Submitting structural data
• Calendar and time zones
• Regulatory changes
7. IT preparations
• Communication testing
• User Acceptance Test
• Testing Partner Test
• Operational Test Run
• Market preparations

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and will together with all other provided material act as the
guideline for all market participants when commissioning
Commissioning plan
Chapter Content
8. Invoicing, payments and
collateral
• Establishment of contractual framework & settlement bank network
• Required preparation by BRPs
• Required testing of invoicing, funds transfers and balance reporting
• Collateral requirements
9. Go-Live readiness • Check-list per market participant prior to Go-Live
10. Transition period
• Parallel reporting
• Holidays during transition period
11. Contingency plan • Contingency plan
12. Communication plan • Sources of information and channels for communication
13. Risks
• Main commissioning risks
• Mitigation actions
14. Documentation • Information available
15. Lessons learned • Lessons learned from first roll-out
16. Change log
17. Appendices
• Appendix 1 - National Changes Compared to Imbalance Settlement Model
• Appendix 2 – Checklists for Go-Live readiness

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The go-live checklist are to be seen as a supportive tool when
preparing for NBS
Go-live checklist (BRP example)
Finland Norway & Sweden
Activity ID Activity
Date due
[YYYY-MM-DD]
Date due
[YYYY-MM-DD]
Status
Priority
[1-3]
Responsible
[Optional]
Read more:
Comment
[Optional]
BRP.0 Activity #0 2016-02-01 2016-04-18 Action needed 1 Project manager NBS handbook section:1.1.1 Separate meeting to be scheduled
d BRP.1 Sign imbalance settlement agreement NBS handbook section 2.4
BRP.2 Sign balance agreement NBS handbook section 2.4
BRP.3
Report the settlement data for the full w eek of 39 (21/9-
27/9 2015) to eSett' settlement system
Commissioning plan section 6.2
eSett w ill carry out shodow settlement
based on this data
BRP.4 Verify settlement result in Online Service Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.5
Test and receive certificate regarding communication
tow ards testing portal for finnish market
Before Operational
Test Run
n.a. Commissioning plan section 7.2
BRP.6
Test and receive certificate regarding communication
tow ards the Ediel portal
n.a.
Before Operational
Test Run
Commissioning plan section 7.2
BRP.7 Test tow ards eSett (Operational Test Run) Commissioning plan section 7.1
BRP.8
Ensure access to Online Service (eSett to request details
for administrative account)
NBS handbook 10.3.3
Commissioning plan section 7.2
BRP.9
Provide structure information to eSett according to provided
template
Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.10 Verify initial settlemement structure via Online Service September 2015 September 2015 Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.11 Final verification of Settlement data (via Online Service) 2016-01-17 2016-04-03
BRP.12 Testing of Information Service (optional) Commissioning plan chapter 7
BRP.13 Testing of Messaging Service Commissioning plan chapter 7
BRP.14 Prepare ow n IT system -
BRP.15 Understand, align and adapt to new market model NBS handbook all chapters
BRP.16 Read and understand provided information material www.esett.com
BRP.17 Communicate and report any problems to eSett www.esett.com
BRP.18 Adapt to new processes and routines in the daily business Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.19 BRPs to have opened a Settlement account Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.20 Pledged Cash Account Agreements signed Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.21
Ensure readiness to receive invoices from eSett
* Establish an agreement w ith an e-invoice operator to
receive e-invoices
* Agree w ith the e-invoice operator on the format in w hich
eSett's e-invoices w ill be provided by the operator
* Inform eSett of the selected e-invoice operator and the
BRP's e-invoicing address
* Implement interface for reading e-invoice into accounting
system (optional)
* In case the BRPs does not w ant to receive e-invoices,
inform eSett of an email address to w hich the invoices
should be sent as PDF files (optional)
Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.22
Participate as voluntary testing partner in the testing of
procedures related to invoicing, payments and collateral Commissioning plan chapter 8August - September 2015
Before Operational Test Run
Well before go-live
Before testing (w ell before go-live)
Continuously
One month prior to Go-Live
One month prior to Go-Live
One month prior to Go-Live
End of May 2015
During the Operational Test Run
During the Operational Test Run
BRP Checklist
Continuously
At Go-Live
To be defined
To be defined
2015-11-13 (during w eek 46)
During the Operational Test Run
2015-11-20 (during w eek 47)
Finland Norway & Sweden
Activity
ID
Activity
Date due
[YYYY-MM-DD]
Date due
[YYYY-MM-DD]
Status
Priorit
y
Responsible
[Optional]
Read more:
Comment
[Optional]
BRP.0 Activity #0 2016-02-01 2016-04-18 Action needed 1 Project manager NBS handbook section:1.1.1
Separate meeting to be
scheduled
BRP.1 Sign imbalance settlement agreement NBS handbook section 2.4
BRP.2 Sign balance agreement NBS handbook section 2.4
BRP.3
Report the settlement data for the full w eek of 39 (21/9-
27/9 2015) to eSett settlement system
Commissioning plan section 6.2
eSett w ill carry out shodow
settlement based on this data
BRP.4 Verify settlement result in Online Service Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.5
Test and receive certificate regarding communication
tow ards testing portal for finnish market
Before Operational
Test Run
n.a. Commissioning plan section 7.2
BRP.6
Test and receive certificate regarding communication
tow ards the Ediel portal
n.a.
Before Operational
Test Run
Commissioning plan section 7.2
BRP.7 Test tow ards eSett (Operational Test Run) Commissioning plan section 7.1
BRP.8
Ensure access to Online Service (eSett to request details
for administrative account)
NBS handbook 10.3.3
Commissioning plan section 7.2
BRP.9
Provide structure information to eSett according to provided
template
Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.10 Verify initial settlemement structure via Online Service Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.11 Final verification of Settlement data (via Online Service) 2016-01-17 2016-04-03 Commissioning plan section 6.2
BRP.12 Testing of Information Service (optional) Commissioning plan chapter 7
BRP.13 Testing of Messaging Service Commissioning plan chapter 7
BRP.14 Prepare ow n IT system -
BRP.15 Understand, align and adapt to new market model NBS handbook all chapters
BRP.16 Read and understand provided information material www.esett.com
BRP.17 Communicate and report any problems to eSett www.esett.com
BRP.18 Adapt to new processes and routines in the daily business Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.19 BRPs to have opened a Settlement account Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.20 Pledged Cash Account Agreements signed Commissioning plan chapter 8
BRP.21
Ensure readiness to receive invoices from eSett
* Establish an agreement w ith an e-invoice operator to
receive e-invoices
* Agree w ith the e-invoice operator on the format in w hich
eSett's e-invoices w ill be provided by the operator
* Inform eSett of the selected e-invoice operator and the
BRP's e-invoicing address
* Implement interface for reading e-invoice into accounting
system (optional)
* In case the BRPs does not w ant to receive e-invoices,
inform eSett of an email address to w hich the invoices
Commissioning plan chapter 8
Before Operational Test Run
Well before go-live
Before testing (w ell before go-live)
Continuously
One month prior to Go-Live
One month prior to Go-Live
One month prior to Go-Live
End of May 2015
During the Operational Test Run
During the Operational Test Run
October 2015
Continuously
At Go-Live
One month prior to Go-Live
One month prior to Go-Live
2015-11-20 (during w eek 46-47)
During the Operational Test Run
2015-11-20 (during w eek 48)
BRP Checklist

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Agenda
About the commissioning plan
Overall time plan
Import of structure data
Testing
Go-live preparations

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The commissioning phase will be most active in the second half of
2015 and in the beginning of 2016
Overall time plan for commissioning
2015 2016
September October November December January February March April
36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Commissioning
Basic Structure Data to be input (June-August)
Preparations for Go-Live
NBS Settlement in Sweden and Norway
Parallel Settlement
in Finland
NBS Settlement in Finland
Finalize Structure
Data (FI)
Finalize Structure Data (SE, NO)
Customers finalize
Structure Data
Shadow
settlement
Parallel Settlement
in Norway
Permission to start submitting data to eSett
Operational Test Runs in FI, SE, NOTSO OTR
Parallel Settlement in Sweden
Unsupported testing period

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Agenda
About the commissioning plan
Overall time plan
Import of structure data
Testing
Go-live preparations

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Structure data is the backbone of the settlement calculations.
Market participants are required to submit structure data to eSett
• eSett is dependent on a correct baseline of structure (standing) data to be able to perform a
correct imbalance settlement
• Due to higher granularity in the imbalance settlement eSett is not able to only collect
standing data from the TSOs, hence eSett will be dependent on structure data updates from
all market participants
• eSett will during summer and autumn 2015 input basic data to the new balance settlement
system (Basse)
Structure data – The background

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Structure data will be collected and verified in a step-wise
approach with verifications and quality checks
Beginning of May
eSett provides structure
data template to market
participants
June September
eSett imports basic
structure data structure
2015-06-14
Last day for reporting basic
structure data to eSett
according to template
2015-08-30
Last day for reporting full
range of structure data to
eSett according to template
October
Verification of structure
data by market
participants
2016-01-17
Last day for final verification of
settlement data for Finnish
market participants
2016-04-03
Last day for final
verification of settlement
data for Norwegian &
Swedish market
participants

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Structure data will be collected in 2 phases of which the first
phase focus on basic data and the second on the full scope
• The first round of structure data will focus on importing:
• TSO information
• MBAs
• MGAs
• Regulation Objects
• Reserves
• Basic market participant data
• Communication IDs
• Main contacts
• Administrator for Online Service
• Limited amount of market relations
Structure data – First phase

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Agenda
About the commissioning plan
Overall time plan
Import of structure data
Testing
Go-live preparations

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Testing will be done both towards testing platforms (messages) and
towards the sub-sytems of Basse
• In order to verify both the functionality of the new XML-messages as well as the functionality
of the sub-systems of Basse and the market participants readiness testing will be done prior
to go-live
• Testing of the new xml-messages will be performed on a specific portal
• Testing towards the sub-systems of Basse will be performed directly towards eSett
Testing in general

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Initial portal tests for market participants and system vendors
• A testing portal for the new XML-messages for the Finnish market participants will be
provided by Fingrid
• Testing will be made available before the operational test run starts in October
Testing portal for the new XML messages

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Testing of the new settlement system will be performed in three
distinct steps to gain insights and finalize the system before go-live
User Acceptance
Tests
• By eSett
• Ensure the functioning of
Balance Settlement
Solution (Basse)
• First half of 2015
Testing Partner Tests
• By Selected Testing Partners
• Ensure that Market
Participants with different roles
can operate with Basse
• Kick-off in November 2014
• First half of 2015
Operational Test Run
• By All Market Participants
• Ensure the company specific
readiness for the Nordic
Imbalance Settlement
• Starting in October 2015
• Shadow settlement
• Parallel operations
Step-wise approach to testing

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The scope of the OTR is focused towards the subsystems of Basse
and their integrations towards the market participants systems
Testing towards the Basse subsystems
The objective is to test the market participant capabilities with focus on:
 Online Service (ONLS)
 the essential day-to-day activities from the market participant perspective
 Messaging Service (MS)
 market role specific information transfer via market messages – to submit and receive
required and preferred information from eSett
 Information Service (IS)
 testing of the market role specific information to be requested and received through the
information service

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Shadow settlement will be performed during the OTR. the objective is
to perform imbalance settlement for a restricted period of time
Shadow settlement
• During the Operational Test Run one week of shadow settlement will be performed. Shadow
settlement means that market participants will send settlement data to eSett and eSett will
perform a settlement calculation based on received data.
• Shadow settlement is performed in order to verify quality and correct operation of the
settlement system (Basse), the market participant’s systems and processes.
• Shadow settlement will be performed for the whole imbalance settlement process scope,
simulating operations after go-live in all countries.
• The shadow settlement period will be performed based on settlement data from the full
week 39, 2015.
• Market participants will report this data during weeks 46 & 47 (9/11-22/11 2015
• eSett will perform the settlement calculations during week 48 (23/11-27/11 2015) and
present the results of the calculations to each market participant respectively

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Parallel reporting will be enabled one month prior to go-live
Parallel reporting
• Finnish market participants will be able to submit their settlement data to eSett 1 month
prior to go-live.
• Imbalance settlement procedures and calculations will during this period be performed by
both Fingrid’s and eSett’s settlement systems
• This is the possibility to fine tune the integration towards Basse

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Agenda
About the commissioning plan
Overall time plan
Import of structure data
Testing
Go-live preparations

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What would I do if I were you? (the 13-step approach)
No
Well done!
Yes
Read and understand
provided material
1
Ask clarifying
questions!!!
2
Initiate cooperation
with system vendor
3
Start using the go-live
checklist
4
Prepare my IT-
system and align
necessary processes
5
Submit requested
structural data to
eSett according to
template
6
Sign necessary
agreements (if
applicable)
7
Initiate testing
towards testing portal
8
Prepare for
operational test run
towards Basse
9
Prepare for and
participate in shadow
settlement
10
Verify final structure
data
11
Make sure all items
on the checklist have
been finalized
12
“Are we ready for
NBS?”
13

25. Thank you!