Audit of Scheduling and Dispatch Process

Tender description

EirGrid and SONI require a professional, experienced, independent auditor to review the scheduling and dispatch process and to report on their findings in relation to the compliance of the process in the context of relevant obligations. The inputs in the process include parameters to give effect to a range of policies, participant data and system data. These inputs are processed by systems designed to give effect to all of EirGrid and SONI’s obligations. The outputs include Indicative Operations Schedules, dispatch instructions, imbalance pricing calculation factors and market reports. The scheduling and dispatch process operates within an obligations framework that extends from European Regulations through to the Trading and Settlement Code and Grid Codes. A complete list of obligations is set out in the Balancing Market Principles Statement. Key sources of explicit obligations in the scheduling and dispatch process include, but are not limited to: • Licence to Participate in the Transmission of Electricity granted to SONI Limited, Consolidated Feb 2019; • SONI Grid Code including modifications; • Transmission System Operator Licence granted to EirGrid, March 2017; • EirGrid Grid Code including modifications; • Trading and Settlement Code Part B including modifications; • SONI Operating Security Standards; • EirGrid Operating Security Standards; • SEM-11-062 on Principles of Dispatch and the Design of the Market Schedule in the Trading and Settlement Code; • Regulation (EU) 1227 / 2011 on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT)