29 January 2021

5G SENSOR@SEA

5G Smart Edge Node and Smart Objects enabling accurate services extended all over the seas MBI partnering with TIM, CNIT, SISTEMATICA, and AZCOM to develop the 5G Massive Machine Type Communication (5G mMTC) testbed, relying on a hybrid terrestrial-satellite network...

3 December 2020

Day-Ahead market-coupling between Greece and Italy

On the 15th of December 2020, the day-ahead electricity markets of Greece and Italy will be linked together, making another step toward a single European electricity market.  For the market operators active in Greece could be very useful to access ready to use...

28 October 2020

Electricity wholesales markets never stop, neither we do

PowerSchedO for PCR, the first commercial day-ahead electricity market simulator, is ready to face two market evolutions. The first change involves the unintuitive flows on CWE that will be allowed from the 3rd of November. The second change involves the introduction...

6 October 2020

What is the PUN and how it is calculated

In Italy, the day-ahead electricity market follows the rule of marginal price, over six physical zones.   Network congestion can produce different prices in different zones, i.e. the market splitting. This means that energy can have different value in the Nation....

6 May 2020

Satellite Backup Communication System for normal and emergency scenarios

MBI is partner of i-EM s.r.l. and Flyby  to build up a Satellite Backup Communication System for normal and emergency scenarios to assure inter-TSO emergency voice communication (for Grid Control), inter-TSO emergency data communication (Critical tools for Grid...

31 March 2020

Transparency in the electricity markets

The participants in the electricity markets need transparency in order to make critical decisions: risk hedging schedule maintenance periods decide investment based on price levels forecast   Transparency is probably the most effective way to support the...

25 March 2020

Get ready for the Core FBMC

It was March 2015 when on the CWE regions – at that time FR, DE-AT, NL, BE – was performed a public parallel run, regarding the switching to flow-based market coupling, the so-called FB MC project.The models used to forecast market signals had to be...

13 September 2019

5G-MAG launch event at the IBC 2019

5G Media Action Group (5G-MAG) – a new cross-industry association – exploits 5G’s opportunities in the media sector.  Stakeholders from the media and telecommunications industries, satellite and terrestrial network operators, and academia, gathered today...