QUICK LINKS TO THE ECOM+PROJECT SITE VISITS WORKSHOP 1 WORKSHOP 3 WORKSHOP 4 COST REPORTING DATA REPORTING FAQ DISCUSSION SUMICSID            TSO ECOM+ PROJECT The Second TSO benchmarking project on construction, operation and maintenance The European regulators of Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have initiated an international project in the benchmarking of transmission operators for regulation. The first year of the project resulted in three models, the TSO Charter for Accountability, the Network Modeling Tool (NMT) and the Efficiency in Construction, Operations and Maintenance model (ECOM). The latter model was augmented with additional data from new members and revised to provide better decision support. This latter project is called ECOM+ and was reported in September 2003. The second round started in October 2004 and was reported in October 2005. The final and interim reports are open to project members only. SUMICSID administers the ECOM+ project on this website that will be enhanced continuously. The ECOM+ project team from SUMICSID is composed by: Senior associate Per J. AGRELL, prof. dr. pja@sumicsid.com Senior associate Peter BOGETOFT, prof. dr. pb@sumicsid.com Consultant Daniele BENINTENDI, M.A. db@sumicsid.com Consultant Mathias LORENZ, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. ml@sumicsid.com Chief Engineer Jacques DEUSE, PhD jd@sumicsid.com ECOM+ Hot Line All general questions regarding the projects are to be posed to ecom@sumicsid.com , which assures quick response and forwarding to the correct person in the team. All questions of common interest regarding data collection, definitions, procedure etc are posted on an FAQ at this website, in addition to direct response to the questioning party. ECOM+ Mailing Lists Below are the Mailing Lists to the ECOM+ participants and the Data Managers. When you want to be added to the mailing list, please send an email to ml@sumicsid.com . Send List to ECOM+ Participants Send List to ECOM+ Data Managers DISCUSSION ON THE ECOM+ PROJECT In the discussion section of the ECOM+ webpage DISCUSSION, which is open for comments on the ECOM+ Methodology and its application in regulation. All documentation for discussion sent to ecom@sumicsid.com is put on this webpage. All ECOM+ participants will be notified by email of any new documents available. Some project publications are available for download. Note that all workshop presentations are found under respective workshop. Note disclaimers, confidentiality agreements and general copyright.   PROJECT STATUS   STATUS     MONTH DAY ACTIVITY COMMENTS PENDING ONGOING COMPLETED OCT 01 project start send out of contracts, and confidentiality agreement to the regulators     OCT 01 scheduling site visits   NOV 15 start of the data validation       NOV 19 start of the  site visits     NOV 26 workshop 1 MILESTONE 1     DEC 01 appointment of the data coordinator    DEC 01 start of  data reporting JAN 07 start of weight  elicitation   FEB 25 workshop 2   APR 11 end of site visits MAR 15 end of  data reporting A delay in data reporting delays the whole project!  MAR 30 return of data set 1 and 2     APR 29 TSO final data verification MILESTONE 2 The final data verification for the final data verification is APR 01     MAY 01 end of weight  validation draft weights sent to all participants MAY 06 workshop 3 MILESTONE 3 JUN 23 workshop 4 EXTRA SEP 09 cost reporting OCT 10 Partial pre-release results     OCT 10 Internal release of report   OCT 21 return of TSO comment to final report OCT 30 final reporting MILESTONE 4     NOV 01 start of debrief     DEC 31 end of debrief         METHODOLOGY   Note on Methodology ECOM+ Project SUMICSID 2004-10-07 General methods and procedures in the ECOM+ project 2004/2005.   DATA COLLECTION   Data Definition Guide SUMICSID 2005-05-31 ver. 1.6 Asset definitions for data reporting template   Cost Reporting Guide SUMICSID 2005-07-08 ver. 2.1 Final Version of the Cost Reporting Guide for data collection.     GENERAL INFORMATION ECOM+ : DOWNLOADS       ECOM+ Project Participants/Functional Assignments SUMICSID 2005-01-11 Names of TSO, regulators, coordinators and contact information.     ECOM+ Project Plan SUMICSID 2004-12-17 Project objectives, timeline, deliverables and milestones.     ECOM+ 2004 Model Confidentiality Agreement         (trilateral for each TSO/REGULATOR/CONSULTANT involved) SUMICSID updated 2004-10-07 Draft to project non-disclosure agreement, to be approved before data is submitted.     HOME