Definition
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is the structured exchange of business documents between organisations using standardised formats - without manual handling. In the energy sector, EDI underpins market communication: supplier switching messages, invoices, metering dataData from electricity meters - the foundation for billing, balance settlement and market processes in the power market. and settlementTurning metering data into money. Consumption and production per metering point become what each party owes or is owed. reports are exchanged via EDI protocols such as EdielThe Nordic standard for message exchange in the power market. In Norway it now means Elhub's XML messages, in Sweden it is still EDIFACT. (SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol - XML-based messaging protocol used in enterprise integrations, including Elhub./XMLExtensible Markup Language - universal markup language for structured data, standard in Elhub's Ediel messages.) and EDIFACTUN standard for electronic data interchange. In the power market it is used where messages go directly between market participants, and in systems that predate the national hubs.. EDI ensures that different systems from different vendors can communicate reliably.