Request Availability

For the network 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 the first tab, 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 network owner who administers the schedules for the flexible resources that providers 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 "View" button to review the schedules.

On the second tab, existing tenders are listed, and you can also create new tenders. By using the toolbar button for each row, you can view detailed information, edit upcoming tenders, and cancel open tenders.

For a new tender, you first need to specify properties for prices, volumes, and time periods. You can also set values for endurance and cooldown. In the next step, you enter the hours during which flexibility should be available. In the final step, you get a summary before creating the tender.

At the specified time, the tender closes, and offers are evaluated by the platform, with allocation based on the lowest activation price per flexibility quantity. Subsequently, scheduling is performed for flexible resources, and order schedules are displayed on the first tab.