This procurement targets a marketplace solution that will enable flexibility trading to fulfill DSO and TSO needs for flexibility in order to manage network congestion.

The marketplace solution should encompass a complete service-based portfolio of services and systems as services that in concert will allow for buyers and sellers to complete the entire trading process from resource registration to invoicing and payment of fulfilled trades and deliveries. The solution will initially be deployed without integration to participant systems, requiring manual user interfaces or files for interaction. It is envisioned that at a later date integration will be considered, thus favouring solutions that can enable both options.

The procurement and deployment are run by a joint DSO-TSO project (overall project) formed by Helen Sähköverkko Oy and Fingrid Oyj, together later in the document “Contracting authority”. The aim of the overall project is to create favourable conditions for all parties to offer and utilize flexibility to solve real network congestion challenges on both TSO and DSO levels. The project targets to enable testing of different congestion management methods to solve network overload situations both at the local and national level. This requires a suitable flexibility marketplace where the necessary trading can be carried out between the distribution and transmission level system operators and the owners of the flexibility resources. This market is not connected with, does not replace, and does not change reserve markets used for transmission level balancing.

The targeted market solution should be able to maintain and manage necessary flexibility products for both DSO and TSO use cases, allow for flexibility resource registration and enable DSOs and the TSO to decide on which one buys and uses the flexibility offered.

More information on Appendix 1.