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Industries, industry-specific use cases, standards and country rulebooks in one reference.

Industry:

Energy & utilities

Supplier switching

UTILMD messages register, confirm or reject a change of supplier for a metering point.

Messages

UTILMDAPERAKCONTRL

Parties: Supplier ↔ grid operator

Practice example

A customer switches supplier: the new supplier requests the metering point master data, the grid operator confirms or rejects within the regulated deadline.

Typical process flow

  1. UTILMD registration
  2. Grid operator check
  3. APERAK confirm/reject
  4. Start of supply

Rule-setting bodies & associations

BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V. (EDI@Energy)

Industry association

Website

German energy market communication: UTILMD, MSCONS, INVOIC and APERAK message implementation guides with binding go-live dates.

Reinhardtstraße 32, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland

+49 30 300199-0

info@bdew.de

Rulebooks & documents

Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen

Federal regulator

Website

Regulatory decisions (GPKE, MaBiS, WiM) that make the EDI@Energy message formats and deadlines legally binding.

Tulpenfeld 4, 53113 Bonn, Deutschland

+49 228 14-0

info@bnetza.de

Rulebooks & documents

Energy & utilities

Metering data & billing

MSCONS transmits interval consumption which feeds grid usage invoicing (INVOIC) and reconciliation.

Messages

MSCONSINVOICREMADV

Parties: Metering operator ↔ supplier

Practice example

Fifteen-minute load profiles are transmitted daily per metering point and later reconciled against the grid usage invoice.

Typical process flow

  1. MSCONS metering values
  2. Plausibility check
  3. Balancing group settlement
  4. INVOIC grid usage

Rule-setting bodies & associations

BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V. (EDI@Energy)

Industry association

Website

German energy market communication: UTILMD, MSCONS, INVOIC and APERAK message implementation guides with binding go-live dates.

Reinhardtstraße 32, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland

+49 30 300199-0

info@bdew.de

Rulebooks & documents

Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen

Federal regulator

Website

Regulatory decisions (GPKE, MaBiS, WiM) that make the EDI@Energy message formats and deadlines legally binding.

Tulpenfeld 4, 53113 Bonn, Deutschland

+49 228 14-0

info@bnetza.de

Rulebooks & documents