Glossary
Terms from the Norwegian energy sector and technology - explained by practitioners who use them every day. Discover semantic connections and technical references. 378+ terms.
Shared supplier qualification scheme for grid companies, TSOs and energy groups across the Nordics and Central Europe.
The receipt that says the message arrived. Its counterpart NACK says it was not accepted. Without one of them the sender knows nothing.
Organisational psychologist at Wharton. 'Give and Take' shows that the people who give most end up both at the top and at the bottom, and the difference between them is worth understanding.
The residual in a grid area: everything fed in, minus everything measured out, minus grid losses. Distributed across the profile-settled customers.
The encryption algorithm protecting data at rest - on disk, in databases and in backups. Where TLS secures data in transit, AES secures data that is stored.
The Elhub market role that retrieves data on behalf of an end customer, with that customer’s consent. Tvimenning is approved in this role.
Actor that pools flexibility resources from end users and trades them in the energy market.
Advanced Metering and Control System - the digital electricity meter Norwegian households received from 2019, reporting consumption hourly to Elhub.
Norwegian regulation requiring all grid companies to install AMS meters at all end users by 2019.
Services that keep the power system stable - frequency control, voltage regulation and short-circuit power - purchased by Statnett from producers and consumers.
Process where the difference between planned and actual power exchange is reconciled - essential for the power market to function.
Financial settlement between BRPs and the system operator for energy imbalances in a given period.
Power that Statnett buys and sells in real-time to maintain system frequency stability at 50 Hz.
An electronic ID issued through the banks, used both for signing in and for signatures with legal effect.
Stationary battery installations (BESS) that store electrical energy to balance production and consumption in the power system.
Messages 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.
The structured list of what something is made of - which parts, how many, and how they fit together.
Revenue arising when capacity limitations in power transmission between price areas exist - accrues to the system operator.
Business Process Outsourcing - a company takes over responsibility for running an entire business process for others, not merely the system it runs in.
Researcher at the University of Houston. Vulnerability is not weakness, but uncertainty, risk and exposure without a guaranteed outcome. Without it there is no trust.
Balance Responsible Party - actor responsible for balancing production and consumption in its portfolio against the system operator.
Elhub’s process specifications. Each BRS describes one market process step by step - who sends what, when, and what happens when something fails.
The Elhub process that retrieves historical metering values for a metering point. Used, among other things, when a third party has been granted access by the end user and needs to see consumption going back in time.
Martial artist and philosopher - "Be Water" as a metaphor for adaptability, precision and continuous improvement.
The Elhub market role for the supplier covering grid losses in a network.
Digital certificate issued to a company for secure machine-to-machine authentication - required for access to Elhub's API in Norway.
A replaceable part inside a fixed asset. It has its own age, its own history and its own service life - independent of the asset it sits in.
The collection point that pulls metering values from many smart meters and passes them on to the collection system in batches.
Measures and processes for managing situations where demand for grid capacity exceeds supply - between bidding zones or within the distribution network.
One-time payment from developer to grid company to cover costs of connecting to the electricity network.
The grid company's statutory duty to connect all who wish to access the electricity network - a cornerstone of Norwegian energy law.
End user's ability to adjust electricity consumption according to price signals or grid needs.
Conversion Rate Optimization - structured work to increase the percentage of website visitors completing desired actions.
Compliance module for Norwegian grid companies that streamlines reporting and documentation to NVE and RME.
The Elhub market role that collects metering values from metering points and submits them to Elhub. Tvimenning is approved in this role.
The Elhub market role responsible for the balance responsibility contracts of the suppliers.
The Elhub market role a grid company holds for submitting market messages to Elhub. Tvimenning is approved in this role.
The Elhub market role a supplier holds for market messages and retrieving meter values for billing.
The physical or logical point in the electricity network where responsibility for energy transfers from the grid company to the electricity supplier or end customer.
Reduction or shifting of electricity consumption in response to price signals or the system operator's request - an important flexibility resource.
The 18-digit identifier that uniquely designates a metering point in the power market.
Nordic profile of the EDI EDIFACT standard - used for electronic message exchange in the Nordic power market via Elhub.
The six characters in UTILMD, INVOIC and CONTRL are not abbreviations someone invented locally. Each message type is its own standard in the UN EDIFACT directory, and the name is a six-character mnemonic.
The third step in VEE - manual correction of metering values that cannot be resolved automatically, with full audit trail for all changes.
Collectively owned Norwegian company developing shared digital infrastructure for grid companies - including a national grid model and digitalised connection process.
Tradeable certificate proving that one MWh of renewable electricity has been produced and delivered to the grid.
A Norwegian excise duty per kilowatt-hour consumed, collected by the grid company on the grid rent invoice and paid to the state.
Norwegian state scheme covering part of a household’s electricity cost when the market price exceeds a threshold.
Company that sells electricity to end users - purchases power in the wholesale market and sells it to consumers.
National hub for metering data and market processes in the Norwegian electricity market.
Norwegian AMI platform for collecting, validating and distributing metering data from smart electricity meters for grid companies.
Norwegian regulation setting requirements for emergency preparedness and security of the power supply.
The name of the XSD set that defines the message formats towards Elhub. It is versioned, and the version number is what decides whether two systems speak the same language.
Household or business connected to the electricity grid and consuming electrical power.
Norwegian law regulating production, transformation, transmission, trading, distribution and use of electrical energy.
Proactive role at DSOs (such as Lnett, Elvia and Tensio) acting as advisor and liaison between the grid company and customers - mapping future capacity needs and optimising grid capacity through dialogue with property developers and municipalities.
Collective term for all forms of digital data related to the production, distribution, and consumption of energy.
Norwegian state enterprise providing support for energy transition and climate initiatives in business, industry and transport.
The company performing imbalance settlement for balance responsible parties across the Nordics, jointly owned by the four transmission system operators.
The second step in VEE - calculation of missing or rejected metering values based on historical patterns, neighbouring meters or statistical models.
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