Document exchange between market participants. The ETSO solution for the internal electricity market in Europe

ETSO, European Transmission System Operators, was founded in 2001 and is composed of European TSOs also members from UCTE (Union pour la Coordination du Transport de l´Electricite), Nordel (Nordic Countries Association), UKTSOA (UK) and ATSOI (Ireland). The opening of the European electricity market requires a considerable amount of electronic data interchanges (EDI) between all market participants. Consequently ETSO Task Force 14 was set up in order to harmonise EDI and especially the documents to be exchanged. This paper has the following objectives: 1) to provide an overview of the ETSO standards, 2) to provide a situation report on the actual European implementation of the ETSO standards, 3) to present the ongoing activities of ETSO TF 14