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ebIX® documents

What was ebIX?

ebIX® was founded in 2002 with the task to standardise electronic information exchange in the European downstream energy market. ebIX® deliverables are widely used in multiple countries but it never become a formally EU-acknowledged body. Once DSO Entity received a formal EU mandate on this area, ebIX offered the possibility to transfer its activities. The absorption of this knowledge base was agreed by the Board of Director on 16 November 2023.

To ensure that this information remains available, the tables below selected documents, including BRS and ebIX Information models, are being made public in this website:

Introduction to ebIX Model documents and BRSs

Actual version:

An introduction to and overview of ebIX BRSs Introduction to ebIX Models 1r0C

Actual developments:

None

List of often used abbreviation in ebIX® documents

Actual version:

ebIX abbreviations v2r0A

What are Business Requirement Specifications (BRSs)?

Business Requirement Specifications describes business processes between organisations in the energy market using a framework developed by ebIX®, to help organisations in the energy industry implement effective and standardised data-exchange processes. The framework is designed to improve communication between stakeholders, reduce development time, and minimise errors. As an intended side-effect, this will harmonise the downstream market processes in the EU energy markets. Full description is available at this Link.

Business Requirements Specifications for Structure

ebIX BRS for bulk change of Shipper – v1r0C

ebIX BRS for Change of BRP – v4r0C

ebIX BRS for Change of Metered Data Responsible – v4r0C

ebIX BRS for Change of Shipper – v4r0C

ebIX BRS for Change of Supplier – v4r1C

ebIX BRS for Combined grid and supply billing – v1r0C

ebIX BRS for Consented request for Accounting Point Characteristics – v4r0D

ebIX BRS for Customer move – v4r0D

ebIX BRS for End of Metered Data Responsible – v4r0C

ebIX BRS for End of supply – v4r0C

ebIX BRS for Administration of consent – v1r2C

ebIX BRS for Manage APs v1r1C

ebIX BRS for Alignment of AP characteristics – v4r3C

ebIX BRS for Rearrange APs between grids – v2r0C

ebIX BRS for Alignment of area characteristics – v2r0C

ebIX BRS for Alignment of characteristics of a Customer at an AP – v2r1C

ebIX BRS for Alignment of metering configuration characteristics for a MP – v2r1D

ebIX BRS for bulk change of BRP – v2r0D

Business Requirements Specifications for Measure

ebIX BRS for Validate and notify measured data – v1r0C

ebIX BRS for Collect and distribute measured data – v3r1C

ebIX BRS for Measure for billing – 3r1C

ebIX BRS for Measure for determine and notify validated meter read – 3r0D

ebIX BRS for Measure for imbalance settlement -3r1C

ebIX BRS for Measure for reconciliation – 3r0C

ebIX BRS for Measure for renewable energy certificates 2r0C

Business Requirements Specifications for Distributed Flexibility

ebIX BRS for Prepare and aggregate Resources for flexibility services v1r2B 20231218

ebIX BRS for Flexibility register administration – v1r2C 20231218

ebIX BRS for Measure and quantification of flexibility services – v1r0A 20231115

ebIX BRS for Settlement of flexibility services – v1r0A 20231115\

Business Requirements Specifications for Settlement and reconciliation

ebIX BRS for Settle Reconciliation 1r0B 20231218

What are the Business Information Models (BIMs)?

A Business Information Model (BIM) in the ebIX methodology is the structured information model that defines the information exchanged between parties for specific business processes. The BIM is derived from the Business Requirement Specifications (BRS) and is used to generate implementable formats such as XML schemas. ebIX modelling is based on open international standards and harmonised role models.

Business Information Models for Structure

ebIX BIM for Change of Supplier 2014A

ebIX BIM for End of supply 2014A

ebIX BIM for Change of Balance Responsible Party 2014A

Business Information Models for Measure

ebIX BIM for Measure for Imbalance Settlement 2014.A

ebIX BIM for Measure for Reconciliation 2014.A

ebIX documents for download

ebIX Domain model

ebIX BIM for Settle Reconciliation 2014.A

ebIX UML Model for the European Energy Market

Latest version:

Enterprise Architect version: EEM 2023A (EA).zip

MagicDraw (MD) version: EEM 2023A (MD).zip

ebIX Methodology, rules for using UMM2

Actual version:

ebIX Rules for the use of UMM2 version 1.1

ebIX code list

Actual version:

ebIX code list v1r4A 20231123

You can find the visual structure in this document if you need it.