The Network Manager MMS applications include:
- Market clearing and congestion management for nodal and zonal markets:
- Forward markets (day-ahead, hour-ahead, etc.)
- Real-time markets
- Balancing markets
- Advanced Scheduling and Dispatch applications including co-optimization of Energy, Ancillary Services, and CRR options and Small Grid features including Demand Response and Renewables:
- Security Constrained Unit Commitment – providing both MIP and LR methodologies
- Security Constrained Economic Dispatch
- Web-based market trading infrastructure:
- Wholesale trading of Energy, Ancillary services, Transmission rights, and Capacity
- Participant registration systems
- Market rule administration
- Real-time publishing
- Instant messaging
- Market surveillance
- Meter data acquisition
- Load Forecasting
- Commercial reconciliation (settlements, prudential risk, accounting, billing)
The Network Manager supports major industry standards such as CIM, JMS and the European ETSO protocols (ESS, ECAN, etc.). It includes a modular design that meets all modern architectural alignment requirements using standard interfaces and XML-formatted messaging with message-oriented middleware. This provides integration flexibility including SOA-based approaches through the use of proven industry standards like web services, JMS messaging and XML technologies.