Hansen Technologies announced an expansion of its partnership with Swedish utility company Bixia. Under this agreement, Bixia will expand its trading capabilities by leveraging Hansen Trade?s modularity to add the FCR (Frequency Containment Reserve) and mFRR (Manual Frequency Restoration Reserve) Ancillary Services trading and automatic customer communication components. This expansion builds upon Bixia?s current deployment of Hansen Trade for intraday trading, initiated earlier last year.

The Hansen Trade FCR module enables Bixia to operate automatically in the FCR market, including automatic bid sending and trade-result handling. The FCR solution complies with the existing EDIEL-based bidding technology and also supports the new ECP (Energy Communication Platform)-based bidding that Svenska Kraftnät, the Swedish grid operator, will soon introduce ? a change outlined in this recent blog.

The Regulating Power solution provided by Hansen Trade allows Bixia to operate in both the mFRR energy and mFRR capacity markets in an automated manner. The solution automates the mFRR bidding process and activation-request handling, including comprehensive visualisation and monitoring.