Offers File Format

The formatting criteria for files containing Offers to be imported into Forecast Definitions are described below.

The file must be in csv format and named according the following convention:

Offersyyyymmdd.csv

Where:

• 'Offers' is the text "Offers"
• 'yyyy' is the numerical 4 digit year (e.g. 2006)
• 'mm' is the numerical 2 digit month (e.g. 06)
• 'dd' is the numerical 2 digit day (e.g. 08)

The file must contain two row types:

• a single header row
• one or more data rows

Header Rows

The header row must be the first row in the file and must have the exact text in column as presented in below.

1 Company 2 Grid_Injection_Point 3 Station 4 Unit 5 Trading_Date 6 Trading_Period 7 Max_Output 8 Max_Ramp_Up_Rate 9 Max_Ramp_Down_Rate 10 Band1_Power 11 Band1_Price 12 Band2_Power 13 Band2_Price 14 Band3_Price 15 Band3_Power 16 Band4_Price 17 Band4_Power 18 Band5_Price 19 Band5_Power 20 Created_Date 21 Last_Amended_Date