Eress

Eress

The European Partnership for Railway Energy Settlement Systems (ERESS) is a European Partnership for Railway Energy Settlement Systems. The ERESS railway energy settlement system, Erex, provides energy metering services and enables the industry to measure, control and bill for the actual energy consumed by trains. At any given time there will be numerous trains active on the railway network. Trains consume electricity from the grid, for which they need to pay according to their use. The national authority, represented by an infrastructure manager, is responsible for billing this use. The infrastructure manager sends an energy bill to the train companies. In Europe before ERESS, most infrastructure managers used estimates to bill train energy consumption. The idea of ERESS (European Partnership for Railway Energy Settlement System) was presented for the first time in 1999 by the director of Jernbaneverket Bane Energi (part of Norwegian National Rail Administration) Johnny Brevik in a Scandinavian Railway Conference in Tampere Finland. It was a brand new idea, therefore it took 4 years before the first agreement between Jernbaneverket, Banverket and Banedanmark was signed in 2004. Johnny Brevik was the first leader of the Board of Directors (2004-2009). It was founded in 2004 under the name Nress (Nordic Railway Energy Settlement System), and was a collaboration between Trafikkverket (former Banverket), Banedanmark and Bane NOR (Former Jernbaneverket). In 2008 the name was changed to ERESS (European Railway Energy Settlement System). Although the administrative headquarter is in Oslo, Norway, the ERESS Board of Directors consists of representatives from each of the 7 existing partners. The program has been shown to result in energy savings and was awarded an award for Energy and CO2 at the 2012 International Union of Railways Sustainability Conference.

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