Talk:Portfolio

Open Questions:
How, exactly, is a Portfolio created?


 * PReddy:


 * The Market Intelligence Service will return a list of tariff "matches" to the Server/Controller at the end of the contracting phase. Each match is a tuple of the form . I believe each Broker's portfolio should then just be a filter by brokerName on this matches list. (Technically, as I have it now, the tuple is a map in Groovy/Java and will be relayed to the Server/Controller only in XML format. We can create a shared domain class representing a tuple if that would be useful.)


 * I would then assume that the Contract Negotiation Facility (not sure what exactly we're calling it) woud also return tuples like , but I'll defer to Daniel for the official answer on that.
 * JCollins:
 * This sounds right. I'm still working on some details, but I think it is the right information.
 * This sounds right. I'm still working on some details, but I think it is the right information.

Priorities over balancing resources?
In addition to computing the sum of available balancing capacity, is it necessary to at least divide that sum into some priority levels, so the Distribution Utility can for example reduce the lowest-priority loads first?

What is the "net load" that gets communicated to the Broker?
Is it the total net load, or the load per tariff/contract? Probably the latter.

Broker decides initial conditions for each timeslot
The broker needs to optimize its profitabililty.