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RESIDUE_BID_TRK

RESIDUE_BID_TRK supports the Settlement Residue Auction, by detailing which bid was used for which SRA Contract run.

Source

RESIDUE_BID_TRK updates are usually quarterly from participants before an Auction.

RESIDUE_BID_TRK data is confidential to the relevant participant.

RESIDUE_BID_TRK excludes contracts and versions without a valid publication date (i.e invalid bids are ignored).

Volume

Assuming monthly contracts, RESIDUE_BID_TRK shows a maximum of 500 records per year.

Column Schema

AUCTIONID

Unique id for each auction date. (new in March 2003 to support SRA Inter-Temporal Linking)

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(30) Polars Type: str

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

PARTICIPANTID

Identifier of participant

For more information, see the dedicated documentation page.

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(10) Polars Type: pl.Categorical

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

VERSIONNO

Version of Bid used

SQL Type: NUMBER(3,0) Polars Type: pl.UInt16

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

BIDLOADDATE

Date and time bid used

Warning

Despite what the name suggests, this is a datetime, not a date.

SQL Type: DATE Polars Type: pl.Datetime()

This column is not mandatory.

Example: 2026/01/20 00:05:00

CONTRACTID

SRA Contract unique identifier

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(30) Polars Type: pl.Categorical

This column is not mandatory.

LASTCHANGED

Date and time this record was last changed

For more information, see the dedicated documentation page.

SQL Type: DATE Polars Type: pl.Datetime()

This column is not mandatory.

Example: 2026/01/20 00:05:00

New Data Timing

Updated quarterly before an auction

Code Examples

Polars

Casting is enums, categoricals etc is not essential, but may speed up parsing. Swapping int for pl.UInt16, pl.Int32 would also speed up parsing. However some of the datatypes are inferred, so they may be wrong.

This code deduplicates for you. Deduplication is normally only required across multiple months.

This code assumes that all columns are present, which may not be true for older files.

import polars as pl
import polars.selectors as cs

# e.g. "2029/03/15 00:05:00"
dt_s_fmt = "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"

csv_paths = ["SOMEFILE.CSV", "OTHERFILE.CSV"]

lf = (
    pl.concat(
        [
            pl.scan_csv(
                csv_path,  # must be unzipped beforehand
                skip_rows=1,  # skip the header
                infer_schema=False,  # much faster
            )
            .filter(cs.by_index(0) == "D")  # drop the footer
            .select(~cs.by_index(range(4)))  # drop metadata columns
            for csv_path in csv_paths
        ],
        how="diagonal_relaxed",
    )
    .with_columns(
        pl.col("BIDLOADDATE", "LASTCHANGED").str.strptime(pl.Datetime, dt_s_fmt),
    )
    .cast(
        {
            "AUCTIONID": str,
            "PARTICIPANTID": pl.Categorical,
            "VERSIONNO": int,  # or pl.UInt16
            "CONTRACTID": pl.Categorical,
        }
    )
    # Deduplicate
    # We want one row per ['AUCTIONID', 'PARTICIPANTID', 'VERSIONNO']
    # Tie-breaker: greatest value of ['LASTCHANGED']
    .sort(["LASTCHANGED"], descending=False)
    .unique(subset=["AUCTIONID", "PARTICIPANTID", "VERSIONNO"], keep="last")
)

Nemosis

This table is not yet available in Nemosis.

Availability

Visibility: Private

This table is not available in the public monthly MMSDM archive. Is is only available to registered market participants over FTP inside a VPN.

Deduplication and PDR Loader Configuration

The primary keys are:

The transaction type is "insert", which means that you will usually not see duplicate data. If you do, you can deduplicate based on the primary keys, without sorting first. Rows from different files with the same primary keys should have the same values.

PDR Loader configuration is:

Report Name Report Subtype Version
IRAUCTION RESIDUE_BID_TRK 1

This means that the CSV files start with metadata columns:

I,IRAUCTION,RESIDUE_BID_TRK,1,...
D,IRAUCTION,RESIDUE_BID_TRK,1,...

Indexes

This page as JSON (schema documented here, but may change)

Download a JSON Schema specification for this table.

Official AEMO schema documentation

Other Information

Package: IRAUCTION