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TSO ECOM+ PROJECT

The Second TSO benchmarking project on construction, operation and maintenance

The European regulators of Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have initiated an international project in the benchmarking of transmission operators for regulation. The first year of the project resulted in three models, the TSO Charter for Accountability, the Network Modeling Tool (NMT) and the Efficiency in Construction, Operations and Maintenance model (ECOM). The latter model was augmented with additional data from new members and revised to provide better decision support. This latter project is called ECOM+ and was reported in September 2003. The second round started in October 2004 and was reported in October 2005. The final and interim reports are open to project members only.

SUMICSID administers the ECOM+ project on this website that will be enhanced continuously.

The ECOM+ project team from SUMICSID is composed by:
Senior associate Per J. AGRELL, prof. dr. pja@sumicsid.com
Senior associate Peter BOGETOFT, prof. dr. pb@sumicsid.com
Consultant Daniele BENINTENDI, M.A. db@sumicsid.com
Consultant Mathias LORENZ, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. ml@sumicsid.com

Chief Engineer Jacques DEUSE, PhD
jd@sumicsid.com

ECOM+ Hot Line

All general questions regarding the projects are to be posed to ecom@sumicsid.com , which assures quick response and forwarding to the correct person in the team. All questions of common interest regarding data collection, definitions, procedure etc are posted on an FAQ at this website, in addition to direct response to the questioning party.

ECOM+ Mailing Lists

Below are the Mailing Lists to the ECOM+ participants and the Data Managers. When you want to be added to the mailing list, please send an email to ml@sumicsid.com .
Send List to ECOM+ Participants
Send List to ECOM+ Data Managers

DISCUSSION ON THE ECOM+ PROJECT

In the discussion section of the ECOM+ webpage DISCUSSION, which is open for comments on the ECOM+ Methodology and its application in regulation. All documentation for discussion sent to ecom@sumicsid.com is put on this webpage. All ECOM+ participants will be notified by email of any new documents available.

Some project publications are available for download. Note that all workshop presentations are found under respective workshop.

Note disclaimers, confidentiality agreements and general copyright.

 


PROJECT STATUS




  STATUS    

MONTH

DAY ACTIVITY COMMENTS PENDING ONGOING COMPLETED
OCT 01 project start send out of contracts, and confidentiality agreement to the regulators    
OCT 01 scheduling
site visits

 
NOV 15 start of the data validation      
NOV 19 start of the 
site visits

   
NOV 26 workshop 1 MILESTONE 1    
DEC 01 appointment of the data coordinator   
DEC 01 start of 
data reporting


JAN 07 start of
weight  elicitation


 
FEB 25 workshop 2

 
APR 11 end of
site visits

MAR 15 end of 
data reporting
A delay in data reporting delays the whole project! 
MAR 30 return of data set 1 and 2

   
APR 29 TSO final data verification MILESTONE 2
The final data verification for the final data verification is APR 01
   
MAY 01 end of
weight 
validation
draft weights sent to all participants


MAY 06 workshop 3
MILESTONE 3

JUN 23 workshop 4
EXTRA

SEP 09 cost reporting



OCT 10 Partial pre-release results
 


 
OCT 10 Internal release of report
 



OCT 21 return of TSO comment to final report



OCT 30 final reporting MILESTONE 4    
NOV 01 start of debrief    
DEC 31 end of debrief    

 

 


METHODOLOGY

 


Note on Methodology ECOM+ Project
SUMICSID 2004-10-07
General methods and procedures in the ECOM+ project 2004/2005.

 


DATA COLLECTION

 


Data Definition Guide
SUMICSID 2005-05-31 ver. 1.6
Asset definitions for data reporting template

 


Cost Reporting Guide
SUMICSID 2005-07-08 ver. 2.1
Final Version of the Cost Reporting Guide for
data collection.

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION ECOM+ : DOWNLOADS  

 

 

ECOM+ Project Participants/Functional Assignments
SUMICSID 2005-01-11
Names of TSO, regulators, coordinators and contact information.

 

 

ECOM+ Project Plan
SUMICSID 2004-12-17
Project objectives, timeline, deliverables and milestones.

 

 

ECOM+ 2004 Model Confidentiality Agreement
        (trilateral for each TSO/REGULATOR/CONSULTANT involved)

SUMICSID updated 2004-10-07
Draft to project non-disclosure agreement, to be approved before data is submitted.

 

 

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