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Flow based cross border capacity allocation method is one of the recurring issue coming to the table in the international electricity trade business. It contains several challenges due to the fact that nobody ever worked with it so far in Europe. If it comes to real life it will change everyone’s life who wants to trade with electricity crossing national borders. The lesson to learn – how to bid, how much to bid, at what price to make a bid, etc. - could cost a lot in financial meaning.

Any national authority acting on energy filed, has the national right as one of its main function to collect data about the business procedures of the energy market. Large amount of these information are to be found at the corresponding TSO-s. So it is typical that the authorities require several different kinds of data from them repeatedly. The wide range of data and the frequency of data provision raise the need of automatisation.

The 2009/ 715 EU directive requires several types and amounts of information to be published from the TSO to the public. The „static” info – such as: formats of the different contracts, specification of gas quality parameters, rules on secondary capacity market, etc. – are not difficult to bradcast. In the other hand, the directive requires also a quiet large amount of dinamic data to be publish on nearly real time.