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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
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European Energy segment. During the past 10 years,
Unicorn Systems has delivered many successful projects
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allows Unicorn Systems to deliver high quality solutions
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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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