General
ASCEA is a system of instruments, hardware, and software that collects, processes, stores, transmits, and prepares the measurement data for mutual settlements between the wholesale electricity market participants for generated, transmitted, distributed and consumed electricity.
Benefits of using ASCEA in electricity network companies:
- Timely and reliably provision of information about power flows (consumption or supply) between the market participants to account and settle electricity losses in the company's networks.
- Identification of the centres of losses in order to eliminate them.
- Calculation of electricity balances (accurate accounting of electricity losses).
- Interchange of agreed electricity metering information with the wholesale electricity market participants.
Benefits of using ASCEA at the consumer end:
- Optimization of the cost of purchased electricity.
- Optimization of power consumption.
- Payment for the actual cost of consumed electricity without cross-subsidization.
- Predictability of the cost of electricity in the planned period.
- Reliable power supply.
- Calculation of electricity balances (accurate accounting of electricity losses).
- Interchange of agreed electricity metering information with the wholesale electricity market participants.
Benefits of using ASCEA at the generator end:
- Income predictability.
- Payment guarantees for electricity supplies.
- Operational control over the production of electricity.
- Calculation of electricity balances (accurate accounting of electricity losses).
- Estimation of technical and economic performance of an enterprise.
- Interchange of agreed electricity metering information with the wholesale electricity market participants.
Benefits of using ASCEA at wholesale electricity market level:
- A database of reliable, timely and legitimate measurements of production, transmission, distribution and consumption of electricity in the wholesale and balancing electricity market.
- Complex electrical calculations.
- Preparation of initial data for mutual settlements in the wholesale and balancing electricity market.
- Interchange of agreed electricity metering information with the wholesale electricity market participants.
