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.

Empire 6.0 has been engineered to deliver a host of new and innovative functionality, expand upon existing features, whilst continuing to combine state-of-the-art technology with a user-centric design.

Launched in 2025, Empire 6.0 is a significant milestone in the development of the trading platform and includes:

• a redesigned Buy Now 2.0 auction to deliver greater trading efficiency
• new Webhook functionality to deliver automatic and customised messages directly to the user, including within their own trading system
• a new Dynamic Auction Overview to display the most relevant auctions to the user based on their preferences
• expanded Single Sign On functionality to save time accessing Empire, without compromising security
• new personalisation functionality to configure the Empire environment to meet the user’s individual workflow preferences
• new Bidding Configurations enabling users to set limits to their bids, per timescale, across all auctions

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.