Definition
HANDSAL handles the message traffic that does not pass through a central market hub. Electricity suppliers, grid companies and balance responsible parties exchange structured messages directly between themselves every day - invoices, delivery schedules, product data. That bilateralMessages travel directly between two parties, without passing through a shared hub. The opposite of the centralised model Elhub is built on. Also called point-to-point. traffic is usually solved either with an expensive closed message broker, or with home-built solutions that have no monitoring, quarantine or alerting when something fails to arrive. HANDSAL is a self-hosted gateway supporting EDIELNordic profile of the EDI EDIFACT standard - used for electronic message exchange in the Nordic power market via Elhub., AS4Open OASIS standard for secure message exchange over HTTP - the transport protocol required by Peppol, increasingly seen in European power-market messaging too., ECPEnergy Communication Platform - EU-standardised interface for secure data exchange between actors in the European power market., PeppolEuropean network for e-invoicing and e-procurement - uses AS4 as its transport protocol. Norway is among the countries with mandatory e-invoicing via Peppol for the public sector. and EDIFACTElectronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport - UN standard for electronic data exchange. in one solution, with routing, acknowledgement and queue handling built in. The name is Old Norse: a handsal was the handshake that made an agreement binding.