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IT and Reasearch &
Development Activities
IT Activities
EVALUATE MAINTENANCE PDWS/TP
Various and significant evolutions were delivered in order to
continuously improve the performance and functionality of
the Transparency Platform (TP).
Notably, a major upgrade of the TP database version signif-
icantly improved the querying performance for the TP users.
A features requested by several users was added, enabling
them to download the data directly in Excel; another feature
was delivered to give users the choice between download-
ing capacity and interruption data in a compact mode (as
few distinct values as possible) or in a “periodized” mode
(one value per gas day, or per gas hour).
Collecting feedback and evaluating the user experience of
the TP has always been an objective of ENTSOG, and this is
why the possibility to ask directly questions to the TP
Administrative team was added to the TP. This feature has
since been regularly used.
A less visible but nonetheless very real achievement led to
a quite significant improvement of the system’s loading
performance, i.e. the time needed to process and display
the data on the Platform. The TP is now performing quite
well under the current conditions.
IMPROVEMENT DATA PORTAL
The Project Data Portal evolved significantly to cope with the
TYNDP 2017 data collection, as well as with the PCI appli-
cation collection.
A major revision of the project portal was necessary to be in
line with the TYNDP 2017 data collection. Improvements
were done along several axes. The layout was improved and
made more user-friendly; unnecessary questions were re-
moved, and new ones were added; usage of tool tips and
explanatory texts was systematized.
A significant effort was spent to document the project por-
tal, resulting in the production of an exhaustive handbook.
ENTSOG provided regular support during the data collec-
tion to assist project promoters in their submission.
One important goal of ENTSOG was to give the promoters
the tools to understand how their data was processed, in
order to react rapidly and gain a better understanding of the
way ENTSOG processes such inputs. A comprehensive set
of reports was produced and integrated in the project portal
interface, giving promoters a better insight into the inner
workings of ENTSOG’s data warehouse. Overall, the efforts
paid off, enabling to collect data more quickly and in a bet-
ter quality than before.
Another round of targeted improvements was delivered end
of 2016. ENTSOG agreed to support the European Commis-
sion in collecting PCI applications for the PCI Third List. The
project portal was adapted to this goal; the documentation
was updated, and two webinars were held. Here also, the
data collection was a success, completing in little more than
a month.
STANDARDISATION AND AUTOMATISATION OF
URGENT MARKET MESSAGES (UMM)
Work on the standardisation of UMMs continued. ENTSOG
IT analysed the documents produced by ACER, and partic-
ipated to a series of webinars tackling the implementation.
The second half of 2016 was spent addressing the docu-
ments produced by ACER, and analysing in detail the
consequences for ENTSOG. Functional questions were
discussed and documented via Question and Answers doc-
uments. The discussions on the UMMs standardisation and
automatisation is continuing in 2017. Both via special
ACER-ENTSOG-TSO stakeholder webinars and in the RRM
User Group.
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