Request availability

For the grid owner, there are two ways to manage availability in SWITCH:

• Create orders - Using load forecasts or entirely manually, you can create availability and direct orders on the market based on substation needs.

• Seasonal availability - After establishing agreements with the supplier, a schedule is set up that generates flexibility orders for activation, following a fixed pattern for the entire market season.

Create orders

Here, you can set up step-by-step how orders should be sent to the market. To view details about created orders, you can go to the history page.

Seasonal availability

On this page, you can view existing order schedules. These schedules can generate sell orders for flexibility on the market based on a weekly profile. It is the grid owner who administers the schedules for the flexibility resources that suppliers have made available during the market period.

Each created schedule is displayed as a card on the page. You can see whether a schedule is active or not, which resource it pertains to, etc. Use the "Edit" button to review or modify a schedule, or the "Delete" button to remove it entirely.

In the top right corner of the page, you will find a button to create a new order schedule. First, you choose between simple and advanced scheduling, with the former being the most suitable in most cases. In the next step, you fill in the desired settings and can then create the schedule. Note that you can always modify existing settings for a schedule in edit mode using the gear icon link in the top right corner.