Definition
Go-live is the point at which an integration stops talking to ElhubNational hub for metering data and market processes in the Norwegian electricity market.'s test environment and starts talking to the real one. Until then everything has been reversible: a wrong message in test is a wrong message in test. After go-live the messages enter a market where other parties act on them, settlementTurning metering data into money. Consumption and production per metering point become what each party owes or is owed. is based on them, and an error has to be corrected with a new message rather than with a new test run. The step assumes the certificates are in place in the production environment - they are not the same as in test - that the message types the role covers have been tested and approved, and that actor approval has been granted. The order is not optional: certificates, message types, test phase, then go-live.