Independent Operator of Measurements as a virtual enterprise on the energy market

The independent Operator of Measurements (IOM) is a new energy market actor that will implement a remote access to the metering data and stores, as well as aggregating and delivering them in real time to all market participants as an independent service-placed "above the market" enterprise. In that sense IOM, with an adequate infrastructure of ICT has become a virtual company with real effect where, thanks to its distributed and virtual activities on the energy market achieves it, synergizes the whole market and activates the necessary and accurate real-time decisions of other market participants. IOM is a virtual unit (not necessarily constrained by any single location) from the point of view of the access to the Market. The Energy market (EM) in Poland, where IOM will be set up, has become closer to the full liberalization, energetic efficiency, enhanced competitiveness and contribute to the smart grids potential. This article presents the issues of ICT and the creation of new business models for the above-described virtual enterprise, which manages measurement data at the EM in Poland.