Systems Technical Documents
Overview
The systems technical documentation provides the detail of the changes to AEMO’s market facing systems. These documents are expected to provide the information required to allow industry to understand AEMO’s IT systems changes and for industry or vendors to make the required changes to their own systems.
The technical specifications are being produced in stages, allowing progressive release and consultation on the 5-minute and global settlement changes. The following tables provide the current status of these documents.
Dispatch and operations, settlements and metering
| Technical Document | Content | Final Version Due | Status | Last Release | SWG Related Level 2 Milestone | Comments |
| 5MS Systems High-Level Impact Assessment (HLIA) |
Retail Systems
Dispatch Systems Operational Systems Settlement Systems |
30 Dec 19 | Draft | 17 May 19 | N/A | The HLIA is a working document updated periodically as consultations and designs complete. |
Electricity data model
| Technical Document | Content | Staging | Pre-production | Production |
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Draft EMMS Technical Specification - 5MS - Data Model v5.00 Draft EMMS Technical Specification - 5MS - Data Model v5.00 (marked up) |
Updates RERT tables to include PAYMENT_ID column and removes PAYMENT_TYPE_ID column. |
15 May 2020 | TBA | TBA |
Dispatch and operations
| Technical Document | Content | Final Version Due | Status | Last Release | SWG Related Level 2 Milestone | Comments |
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EMMS 5MS Technical Specification - Dispatch and Operations Format and Validation for Energy, FCAS, and MNSP Bids and Offers |
Section 3 - Dispatch and Bidding
Section 4 - FTP Interfaces Data Model - Section 7.2 Section 8 - Implementation Section 12 - Bidding JSON Format |
Working document | Participants can commence their system builds but changes are still imminent due to participant feedback. | 15 May 2020 | L2-D1 | Section 8 – Implementation proposes the transition approach – this is subject to adoption by the Readiness Workstream |
Metering
| Technical Document | Content | Final Version Due | Status | Last Release | SWG Related Level 2 Milestone | Comments |
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MDFF Specification NEM12 and NEM 13 - v1.01 |
MDFF format to support 5-minute meter data | Final | 30 Apr 19 | 22 May 19 | L2-M2 |
Completed Specification agreed as final in SWG #11 |
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MSATS 46.96 Technical Specification - v2.00 MSATS 46.96 Technical Specification - marked up v2.00 MDM File Format and Load Process - v5.08 marked up with content changes |
Transition
MDFF and MDMF meter data load process
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Final |
v2.00 |
22 Apr 20 |
Settlements
| Technical Document | Content | Final Version Due | Status | Last Release | SWG Related Level 2 Milestone | Comments |
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Web interface updates – Chapter 3, More API details and JSON schema. |
Final |
04 Dec 19 |
L2-D1 | N/A |
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Updates Pre-prod refresh date, removes Data Model into a separate tech spec, adds details for URM entity details. |
Final | 18 May 2020 | 18 May 2020 | L2-S7 | Published for 5MS Settlements Package 3 Staging | |
| New chapter detailing weekly activity available in Staging | Final | 13 May 2020 | 13 May 2020 | L2-S7 | Published for 5MS Settlements Package 3 Staging | |
| Guide to Electricity Reallocations | Updates Total to Daily Total on the Preview screen and updates some screenshots. |
Final |
28 April 2020 |
28 April 2020 |
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| All sections | Draft | 1 Mar 2020 | 1 Mar 2020 | |||
| 5MS Reallocations production release notes | Enhancements being delivered through this release and links to the relevant system documents. | Final | 25 Mar 2020 | 25 Mar 2020 | L2-S12 | N/A |
| All sections | Draft | 13 May 2020 | 13 May 2020 | L2-S7 | Published for 5MS Settlement Package 3 Staging | |
| Guide to NEM Prudential Dashboard | All sections |
Draft |
13 May 2020 |
13 May 2020 |
L2-S7 |
Published for 5MS Settlement Package 3 Staging |
| All sections | Draft | 13 May 2020 | 13 May 2020 | L2-S7 | Published for 5MS Settlement Package 3 Staging | |
| Guide to NEM Credit Support | All sections | Draft | 13 May 2020 | 13 May 2020 | L2-S7 | Published for 5MS Settlement Package 3 Staging |