Flexibility, performance and being up-to-date are the characteristics of SOPTIM's toolbox for distribution system operators.

• Flexibility, to be able to react to the different and changing demands of the REA and CHP regulation.
• Performance to master mass data, automate processes and thus control costs.
• Being up-to-date, to be able to securely apply the market-relevant procedures and formats at the dates set by the Federal Network Agency.

With regard to content SOPTIM EKM does not only master the basics of feed-in management to perfection. All processes in the context of system management are integrated and supported with highest quality and thus with highest value added.

SOPTIM EKM supports:

• In regard to strategy: Security and transparency in processes of management, billing and registering for distributed generation facilities and thus the minimizing of risks in distribution system operation.
• In regard to tactics: Core processes in registration of facilities, calculation of compensation and direct marketing of REA power quantities can be integrated and thus processed based on validated and consistent data and established functions saving resources and using a high degree of automation.
• In regard to operation: Distinctive areas of operation provide the basis for a detailed modeling of data structures oriented on the technical and legal demands. Side systems in the office world become unnecessary. Cockpit functions, analysis tools and flexible evaluations give a current view of the processing status at any time and prevent transgressions of deadlines.
• As reliable and performant IT system: In cooperation with the ERP system on the one hand and the remote counter reading or metering data management system on the other SOPTIM EKM is the secure and central platform for the feed-in manager.

SOPTIM EKM stands for:

• The realization of the legal frame conditions of the REA and CHP from 2009 to 2012 in an IT system verified by an auditor
• Energy and structural modeling of all distributed REA and CHP facilities
• Calculation and documentation of the compensation per facility, per operator, per primary energy carrier
• Reporting to transfer system operator and German Federal Network Agency
• Display of fees of network access that were avoided
• Modeling of direct marketing with market bonus model and green electricity privileges
• Modeling of Leniency Programmes for bio mass facilities depending on materials used, flexibility bonuses, calculations of compensation during system shutdown

Operative and strategic REA and CHP management: Distribution system operators for electricity gain critical bonus point using SOPTIM NEM and SOPTIM EKM in combination.

Connecting REA reporting and REA facility management with balancing makes the direct marketing of green electricity possible without system discontinuity and data transfer.

Unique in the market in depth and shape, SOPTIM reacted to the enormous challenge of the exploding number of distributed facilities: The components
SOPTIM NEM and SOPTIM EKM connect the core processes of balancing to all processes concerning renewable energies. Interacting, of course - supply by third parties listed on the balance sheet and complete or partial direct marketing directly affect the balancing result and thus guarantee highest quality of the feed-in time series and balancing group nodes.

REA and CHP facilities are modeled completely, compensations are calculated and DSO reports generated.