After a period of continuous prototyping, careful gathering and processing of customer and end-users feedback, we are proud to announce an addition of a new ready-to-use business module to the Damas MMS family – the Nominations. The aim of the module is to fully cover the crossborder nomination business process, be it reception of nomination values from nominators via automated API, or their manual entry via GUI. The module targets both the TSO domain as well as the HVDC interconnector specifics.
The story of Nominations module started by continuous gathering of feedback directly from our clients, thanks to our Energy Service Desk being in touch with end users on a daily basis. This resulted in a prototyping phase, during which a functional prototype was created to further elaborate the enhanced user experience of our newest information systems.
The Damas MMS:E Nominations module provides all necessary features to fully support the cross-border nomination process. This includes coverage of the following business areas, offering an easy and flexible extensibility:
- Business process configuration, process timing setup, nomination model settings
- Transmission Right reception and management
- Cross-border nomination process ranging from nomination gate opening, over nominations entry, through to the gate closure
- Apart from explicit nominations, the reception and display of implicit nominations from external source are also supported
- Nomination values reception via automated API
- Nomination entry via GUI or manual file upload
- Default nomination functionality – allowing automated nominations generation upon gate opening up to the level of available transmission rights for given timescale. The functionality can be utilised for a single day, for a period of time or simply ”from now on” (up until modified).
- Pre-nominations - allowing nominations composition (i.e. preliminary entry) in advance, yet before the relevant nomination gate opens. The user enters specific values per MTU (be it 0 or any other MW value and once the relevant nomination gate opens, the pre-nominations are automatically nominated.
- Same as for the default nominations, this functionality is configurable per timescale (and auction interval in case of intraday) and again for a specific date, time interval or “from now on”.
- Detailed and aggregated nomination overviews with strict data separation and selection of views depending on the user role and permissions
- General possibility to download the values into a MS Excel (or compatible) spreadsheet
- Aggregated view on the overall daily process – a dashboard summary containing overview of available transmission rights per timescale, graphical display of recent and upcoming events (reception of transmission rights, nomination gate opening, etc.) with direct navigation to the related entry forms or overviews
- Graphical display of Transmission Rights with a selection or combination of timescales, including the summary value
- Business Day Timeline visualises the process-flow, showing most recent, current and upcoming events. Typically, this highlights most important milestones, such as the reception of Transmission Rights, nomination gate openings and closures, all that accompanied with a clear countdown time.
- The user can use the intuitive Business Day Timeline widget to see not only the related countdown (to gate opening or its closure), but also with an option to immediately navigate either to Nominations entry screen, or to an overview of Transmission Rights, etc.
- The daily timeline is accompanied by a list of nomination gates – again, equipped by an appropriate countdown and direct link to the related action.
- When navigating to the Nominations entry screen of the currently opened nomination gate, all the parameters are already pre-set and the entry form is immediately in its “edit” mode. Thereby, no time is wasted by looking for the right form and setting the right parameters.
- With this, the manual nomination entry lasts less than a minute!
- Reflecting the end-user preference and feedback, the Market Participants can now nominate both directions at the same time.
- Important business data (Transmission Rights, Nominations, etc.) are displayed on a graph in addition to an ordinary tabular view. Transposed view (i.e. horizontal or vertical arrangement) is available to fit even more specific user preferences.
- Entered nominations are immediately visible in the same graph, marking the difference between nominations and available transmission rights.
From the aforesaid components, each user is welcome to modify their dashboard screen up to their liking. Each component can be resized and moved – the components can be shuffled around to create a new look & feel by simply using a drag and drop. Unwanted components can even be hidden. Once modified, the target layout is stored to the user’s preferences. The layout can be further modified at any time, or it can be simply reset to its default layout.
Using the system late at night?
Not a problem: the generic dark mode feature is available throughout the system. As supporting primarily the professions (and thus user groups) working in 24/7 regime, and providing the choice for users in areas/premises with restricted lighting, the dark mode improves the comfort of system use.
The Damas MMS:E Nominations module is not the first one of its kind. It is an addition to an already existing variety of business modules such as the Balancing module. The Balancing module has been created to fully support the process of acquiring the balancing energy to ensure the grid stability and market efficiency.
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