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 investment in entirely new systems. Offering a range of proven EBT transaction management, billing and settlement solutions, SPi Group 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 managed point solution is a full-featured transaction management service that facilitates the secure, accurate, auditable and timely transport and management of data between gas market participants. This cost-effective solution addresses many of the major issues and risks associated with the GDAR, and provides a robust, flexible, open and scalable infrastructure to support the gas market now and in the future. Through SPi’s managed point service, market participants need only maintain a single connection to SPi in order to send XML transactions generated by SPi’s application and receive XML transactions from its various trading partners.
SPi also provides a Microsoft Excel-based XML generator application. This application was developed to mirror the legacy XML generator applications provided by current large natural gas utilities. Clients can send and receive transactions to and from the SPi managed point service via a secure protocol defined by both parties.
How it Works
Service Benefits:
- Maintain current business processes with an SPi-provided application with the same look and feel as XML generator applications provided by the gas distributors.
- A single point of contact with gas market participants for simple, secure and reliable transport of EBTs.
- All inclusive pricing that includes implementation and maintenance.
- A trusted service provider to over 70 energy industry market participants.
- Built on SPi’s highly scalable, reliable and proven electricity market technology with historic 99.985% availability.
- A full 7/24 customer service and support function with 100% of the clients surveyed satisfied with response time and 98.1% satisfied with problem resolution.
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