Empire Turns Three

Since launching in September 2023, BritNed’s award-winning allocation and nomination platform, Empire, has evolved at pace over the past three years. With each new release, Empire continues to be shaped by customer insight, operational experience and our ambition to make interconnector trading as efficient and user-friendly as possible.

Designed and built in collaboration with Supercharge in just 18-months, Empire brought BritNed’s trading activities into one integrated environment, enabling customers to participate in long and short-term capacity auctions, manage nominations, view settlement information and generate reports from a single platform.

Over the past three years, Empire has supported the launch of new and pioneering auction products, enabled more efficient workflows, and continued to provide BritNed’s participants greater choice and convenience in how they trade on the interconnector.

“We are delighted to celebrate Empire’s third birthday and to reflect on how far the platform has come since its launch in 2023,” said Jonathan Cole, Customer and Markets Manager at BritNed.

“Empire has continued to evolve at pace, shaped by customer feedback and the changing needs of the market. At BritNed, we are committed to continuously improving the trading experience. We enjoy listening to customer feedback to really understand how we should adapt and evolve the platform.

“I think we can look back with pride that we’ve produced something unique and genuinely focused on the customer. But we’re equally excited to continue exploring how Empire can develop over the coming years to further support our customers by offering more flexibility and greater trading possibilities.”

Since its launch in 2023, Empire has continued to evolve at pace, with each new release shaped by customer insight, operational experience and BritNed’s ambition to make interconnector trading as efficient and user-friendly as possible.

From September 2023 to September 2026, Empire has instructed a total flow of 9,982 GWh from NL to GB, and 6,089 GWh in the GB to NL direction.

There have been 580 long-term auctions and 10,658 short-term auctions run during the three years, with an average of 15 participants in short-term auctions and 11 participants in long-term auctions.