Definition
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is the structured exchange of business documents between organisations using standardised formats - without manual handling. In the energy sector, EDI underpins market communication: supplier switching messages, invoices, metering dataData from electricity meters - the foundation for billing, balance settlement and market processes in the power market. and settlementTurning metering data into money. Consumption and production per metering point become what each party owes or is owed. reports are exchanged via EDI protocols such as EdielNordic profile of the EDI EDIFACT standard - used for electronic message exchange in the Nordic power market via Elhub. (SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol - XML-based messaging protocol used in enterprise integrations, including Elhub./XMLExtensible Markup Language - universal markup language for structured data, standard in Elhub's Ediel messages.) and EDIFACTElectronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport - UN standard for electronic data exchange.. EDI ensures that different systems from different vendors can communicate reliably.