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Deliverable 3.1 Business Analysis - Green eMotion Project

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implemented and is improving ICT solutions within its Electromobility Management System, a topic further<br />

exploited in the following sections).<br />

With regard to the questions that were submitted to the interviewees, at first we aimed at understanding<br />

their views on roaming and the role of the GeM Clearinghouse in enabling it. The second group of<br />

questions addressed the interviewees’ best practices in order to assure interoperability of already existing<br />

systems. The third group of questions went more into details in order to assess what services the GeM<br />

Clearinghouse would have to offer to enable roaming. Here the aim was to define the processes and data<br />

flows that need to be in place for such services provisioning. For this purpose we sketched some<br />

processes that were used as a base for discussion during our interviews and which are shown in the<br />

paragraph “CH Processes”.<br />

The GeM Clearinghouse as one important service out of others could act as a B2B intermediary for<br />

EVSPs, EVSE Operators, Fleet Operators and any other entity that offers electro-mobility services to end<br />

customers. The main role of GeM CH (or eMobility CH as referred in this document) is to provide an highlevel<br />

contract and agreement management added on-top of the current electric mobility management<br />

systems which are under design process throughout Europe. Flexibility of the CH is a key issue for EV<br />

rollout because it will provide a fundamental solution of continuity between these years demos and the<br />

mass market. Therefore, the GeM ICT Platform would offer services and have features such as:<br />

• Identification of the end customer, providing a customer with a unique ID<br />

• Authentication of the driver<br />

• Service Indication for the driver<br />

• Charge detail record (CDR) routing to enable billing for the consumption of electricity and other<br />

eMobility services<br />

• Data analysis<br />

• Providing web interfaces to display information of any kind for charging and added value services<br />

• Compatibility with on-going demo projects (aim of GeM).<br />

• Flexibility to eventually welcome different business models.<br />

• Competitiveness against service provisioning based on direct agreements between business<br />

actors.<br />

The way these services/features will be implemented, regarding particularly the architecture solutions,<br />

shall be discussed in the subsequent tasks of this work package.<br />

The interviewees agreed on having the eMobility Clearinghouse to provide the just mentioned services<br />

and further pointed out that:<br />

1. The CH as part of the GeM solution should enable different business models for different<br />

stakeholders. This leads to a key concept: the GeM CH could be used or not by electric mobility<br />

business actors, depending on their own business models and needs. Being a B2B intermediary<br />

between actors involved in the transaction, the businesses would have the right to establish<br />

agreements and provide services as a consequence, without accessing to an higher<br />

routing/managing level. This will be, in fact, a very common situation in the very first part of the<br />

technology ramp (direct agreements and service provisioning managed on their own by linked<br />

partners) and thus GeM CH will guarantee a competitive but compatible way for businesses to<br />

deal with agreements, contracts and services on a larger scale, coordinating lower levels of the<br />

architecture who are already under design/deployment phase where possible.<br />

2. Some business models that stakeholders have in place or consider to be important in this very<br />

first step of GeM CH role definition are:<br />

• The DSO may act as the EVSP, but, in general, is in charge to manage the EVSE connection<br />

to the grid. Enel Distribuzione electric mobility management system, for example, guarantees<br />

the charge/service management and B2B services in the on-going Italian demo region. The<br />

DSO can provide “Hardware” to the EVSPs. For example, in the city of Pisa Enel<br />

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