Empire is our fully-integrated trading platform and the home for all BritNed trading activities, including:

• participation in long and short-term auctions
• capacity nomination management
• viewing financial settlement overviews
• generating reports

The platform has been meticulously designed to deliver unparalleled levels of convenience, reliability, and flexibility for BritNed’s auction participants. Empire replaces fractured workflows with integrated journeys and unique trading possibilities.

Empire features state-of-the-art API interfaces and a user experience focused on productivity. The platform has been designed by UX experts to deliver a flexible and efficient work environment. Empire’s personalisation functionality has been designed to enhance the user experience and help deliver greater efficiency by enabling users to tailor the environment to suit their specific role and workflow preferences.

Empire continues to evolve at pace with the latest developments and functionality being informed by user feedback.

Launching in June 2026, Empire 8.0 is the latest release of BritNed’s auction and nomination platform.

Empire 8.0 has been engineered to deliver subtle, yet powerful refinements throughout the platform, whilst focusing on enhancing the GUI (graphic user interface) and improving the user access experience.

Empire 8.0 Key Updates:

• Session times / auto logout times have been extended
• API keys are decoupled from password expiry and will expire after one year
• The Aggregated Nominations Overview provides a breakdown of how the NTC value is calculated
• The Secondary Market Returns GUI provides a notification if an earlier transfer made during the same delivery period could impact your return request
• Buy Now auction participants can choose to reveal or hide previous MTUs
• The Finance Billing Report contains additional data fields and filters
• An automatic reminder will notify appropriate users when the Letter of Credit is approaching its expiry date

Empire Explained is a comprehensive training video series created to guide users through every area of the Empire platform.

Please visit our FAQs support pages for deeper dive into everything to do with Empire, including Auctions, Nominations, Finance, Regulation, Registration and Systems information.

Alternatively, you can contact our experts using the form at the bottom of the main FAQs page if you have any further questions about Empire.