Smarter System. Stronger Performance.
| With the latest upgrade to the Damas system, clients of the Terna company can quickly and seamlessly switch between system registers, allowing them to respond instantly to market changes or specific requirements from Terna’s business partners. | Damas combines easy system setup with ultimate flexibility. The whole system is automatically adapted to each unique client’s requirements for storing, displaying, and generating data, ensuring the seamless management of real-time information. | Thanks to the new implementation and this innovation, Terna Rete Italia S.p.A can set up individual data resolutions for each trading company, ensuring that every partnership is perfectly aligned for maximum optimisation. | With advanced automatic processes and monitoring tools, Terna can ensure effective control over all data, reports, and files — making publication and sharing with individual market participants quick and easy. |
15-Minute Resolution Enhances Real-Time Operations
Unicorn Systems has successfully implemented a 15-minute resolution in the Damas system for Terna Rete Italia S.p.A., significantly enhancing the system’s ability to support key business processes across different data resolutions. This upgrade enables Terna Rete Italia S.p.A. and its business partners to respond effectively to dynamic market changes, strengthening their strategic position and ensuring optimal real-time operations.
The 15-minute resolution innovation has transformed Damas into a stable and highly adaptable platform that reliably supports the management of all business operations in the energy sector. This key upgrade, launched in December 2024, is now a fully and highly functional part of the existing system.
This enhancement brings a higher level of stability and rapid adaptation to current conditions, allowing users to achieve excellent results and optimise strategic decisions in the energy market.
Within the project, Damas provides extensive support for continuous trading on the XBID platform, including implicit and explicit intraday auctions. This robust system also includes an improved real-time monitoring system, auction specifications and results reception, available capacity calculations, and cross-border nomination reception.
With a wide range of functionalities, Damas provides clients with a tool that allows them to easily manage and coordinate trading operations and ensures seamless collaboration between connected entities.
This upgrade maximises efficiency and simplifies the management of business processes in the energy market.
Thanks to the long-standing collaboration between Terna Rete Italia S.p.A. and Unicorn, Damas offers unique features that provide users with a reliable and stable tool for optimised energy operation management. This strong foundation makes Damas a leader in the energy market.
Core Capabilities Powering Terna’s Daily Operations
The Damas system project, operating since 2007, brings the following benefits to Terna Rete Italia S.p.A:
- Trading on the European intraday market XBID, which was launched in 2018.
- Generation and reception of cross-border nominations (based on results from IPEX for IDA, based on reception from the XBID platform) including their validation, comparison, and publication.
- Calculation of available capacities (ATC), management of allocation constraints (NTC), including the ability to work with new types of allocation constraints (constrained/unconstrained).
- Optimisation and automation of processes in configurable time intervals, especially for intraday XBID and IDA allocations.
- Expanded possibilities for monitoring system processes and their current status in real time, using new functionalities such as the Dashboard and System Monitoring.
- Reporting for Terna’s internal and external systems.
- Improved configuration of all data streams, including a new configuration of data resolutions.
About Terna
As a grid management and transmission operator, Terna Rete Italia safely manages energy flows along 72,000 km of HV lines of the Italian electricity system, ensures the continuity of the electricity supply in the country, and is responsible for energy dispatching.
“The possibility of using our system in a different data resolution gives us a new advantage in our business, and our system is now fully configurable according to our needs.
I would like to highlight that Unicorn’s teams provided their services on a high professional and reliable level, systematically, well documented, and in a standardised manner, respecting the agreed approaches and procedures. Thereby, Unicorn Systems contributed to our higher involvement in significant trans-European projects and the enhancement of the Damas system.”
Stefano di Iorio
Project Manager – Capacity Allocation Department
Terna S.p.A.
