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EC Power has clients that range in size from one-person competitive retailer with a handful of customers to multi-national competitive retailers with millions of customers. Each client’s success is very important to
EC Power.
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Case Study: EC-Power Maintains Industry Standard Electronic Delivery Mechanism
 OPPORTUNITY
While the natural gas and deregulated electric industry continue to evolve in their respective area, there is common ground, in the electronic delivery of transactions.
The Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB) / North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) Electronic Delivery Mechanism Related Standard (EDM) is that common ground.
HISTORY
The GISB EDM was developed in 1996 by the Wholesale Gas industry for an April 1, 1997 implementation mandated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Its purpose was to provide for a quick & reliable exchange of natural gas sales & transportation related EDI transactions.
The GISB EDM standard utilizes a HTTP & HTTPS protocol along with PGP Encryption of data. It also provides sufficient information for identification of the sender and tracking of transactions from originator to final destination with proof of receipt being provided to the originator of the transaction.
The published versions of the GISB Standards are 1.0 through 1.5.
The NAESB version 1.6 was published in 2002 and implemented by the Wholesale Gas Quadrant in July 2003.
NAESB 1.7 was published in December 2003. An implementation date for NAESB 1.7 has not been set at this time.
Although most states involved in the deregulated electric industry are using the GISB 1.4 version, there are exceptions.
The Texas Market has an April 3, 2004 implementation date for NAESB 1.6.
SOLUTION
EC Power implemented the original GISB EDM standards for a major natural gas pipeline company using PERL scripts and flat file validation architecture.
Our current implementation has evolved into a secure java, web based, table driven product that not only supports the latest NAESB versions but also supports any GISB EDM version back to 1.3.
The EC Power solution is flexible, fast, reliable, and is considered by many trading partners as a good benchmark to test their own applications against.
BENEFIT
EC Power can offer clients a wide range of EDM connections to maximize opportunities in the various deregulated electric markets using GISB 1.4, as well as the natural gas industry using the latest NAESB 1.6 will Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
The EC Power application offers a client ease of implementation as well as web based tracking with e-mail and pager notification of error conditions.
The current tracking reports can be viewed via the web, and enables a user to see exactly where a transaction is located in the process flow.
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