SWITCH DSO Onboarding Guide (user.switchmarket.se, 2026)

Title: Get Started as Network Owner — SWITCH User Guide Date captured: 2026-04-12; raw copy fetched and saved to Raw/Clippings/Get Started as Network Owner (SWITCH).md on 2026-09-22 (not captured as a raw clipping at original creation — an audit gap now closed) Language: English

Public onboarding guide for DSOs (“network owners”) wanting to use SWITCH. Covers the setup sequence, data integration requirements, and organizational roles. Distinct from the 90-page PDF user documentation (Source - SWITCH User Documentation (2026)) — this is the web-based quick-start resource. The two documents cover overlapping ground (the PDF’s “Kom igång som nätägare” chapter and this guide describe the same onboarding process), so some overlap in claims is expected and not a sign of conflation.

Key claims

Data is a DSO responsibility — not a SWITCH built-in

SWITCH does not generate forecasts or collect metering data itself. Providing data to SWITCH is a prerequisite for using the platform. The DSO must supply three data categories:

1. Actuals (measurement) — current, voltage, and power measurements at the constrained point; frequency and accuracy vary by product (minute-level for conditional agreements, hourly averages for market products)
2. Load forecasts — time series of predicted load at the constrained point; submitted as hourly or quarterly averages with future timestamps
3. Operating limits — thresholds for trading, activation, and control signals

Third-party forecast providers: The DSO “can either generate forecasts internally or purchase the service from a forecast provider.” No specific providers are named, but the text explicitly acknowledges the market for external forecasting services.

Forecast horizon requirements by product

This guide’s own English-language UI abbreviates the products SA/AO/DO; elsewhere in this wiki (sourced from the Swedish PDF documentation) the same three products appear as ST/TO/DO (Säsongstillgänglighet/Tillgänglighetsorder/Direct Order) — same products, two label sets from two SWITCH-published documents.

DSO onboarding sequence (ten steps)

Market announcement → FSP recruitment → tendering → pre-qualification → agreement execution → FSP onboarding (the SWITCH team sets up the newly-approved FSP’s organization and user accounts, at the DSO’s request) → data verification (FSP tests in the SWITCH QA environment) → resource qualification → market activation → settlement.

Organizational roles

Identical to the five roles documented in the PDF user docs: Flexibility Analyst, Market Manager, Operations Representative, Controller, SWITCH Superuser.

Relevance to existing wiki topics