ebIX, European forum for energy Business Information eXchange, is a non-profit European organisation with the objectives to advance, develop and standardise the use of electronic information exchange in the European energy industry. ebIX was founded in 2003 as a European organisation continuing the previous work of Ediel Nordic Forum. The main focus is interchange of administrative data for the internal European energy markets for electricity and gas. The members of ebIX, per August 2009, are UMIX (Belgium) swissgrid (Switzerland), BDEW (Germany), Energinet.dk

Energinet.dk

Energinet.dk is the Danish national transmission system operator for electricity and natural gas. It is an independent public enterprise owned by the Danish state under the Ministry of Climate and Energy...

 (Denmark), TenneT

TenneT

TenneT B.V. is the national electricity transmission system operator of the Netherlands, headquartered in Arnhem. Controlled and owned by the Dutch government, it is responsible for overseeing the operation of the 380 and 220 kV high-voltage grid throughout the Netherlands and its...

 (Netherlands), Statnett

Statnett

Statnett is a Norwegian state owned enterprise responsible for owning, operating and constructing the stem power grid in Norway. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway....

 (Norway) and Svenska Kraftnät

Svenska Kraftnät

Svenska Kraftnät is an electricity and natural gas transmission system operator in Sweden. It is a state-owned public utility, which was created in 1992 by splitting the former government agency Vattenfall into a power generation company and a transmission company...

 (Sweden). In addition ebIX has observers from Transmission System Operator

Transmission system operator

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s and national associations of Electricity distribution

Electricity distribution

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 operators from several other European countries. The ebIX framework is used by all Electricity suppliers and Electricity distribution

Electricity distribution

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operators in the participating countries.

External links

• European forum for energy Business Information eXchange(ebIX)