The Gas Distribution Access Rule (GDAR) has wide-ranging implications for the way gas distributors conduct business with gas vendors/marketers. The GDAR establishes fundamental principles for access to distribution services and standard business practices, including billing and service transaction requests. The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has established a GDAR EBT Standards Working Group to develop Electronic Business Transaction (EBT) standards for the gas market. The new standards may require modifications to existing communications infrastructures, billing systems and business processes, or investments in entirely new systems. Offering a range of proven EBT transaction management, billing and settlement solutions, SPi is uniquely capable of helping distributors and vendors/marketers mitigate the risks and reduce the costs required to comply with new standards and market changes.
SPi�s Gas Market Connector allows you to connect securely to other gas market participants. This cost-effective solution addresses many of the major issues and risks associated with the GDAR, and provide a robust, flexible, open and scalable infrastructure to support the gas market now and in the future.
Product Benefits:
- Easy-to-use administrative screens allow rapid setup and operation.
- Tracking inbound and outbound transactions.
- Easy access to an audit trail for proof of regulatory compliance.
Timing:
The Gas Market Connector is currently in development and testing, and will be available for production use in Q4 2008.
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