Issue The client is a large Midwestern natural gas and power company that had recently completed several system implementations. The client needed to cut ongoing ETRM support costs without losing capability: Reports left undone during implementation still had to be built. A new business unit had to be on-boarded. All of this had to happen […]
Issue The client is a large East Coast natural gas utility and marketing company integrating a newly acquired retail business. A newly acquired retail business had to be integrated into the client's existing two-system solution: Interfaces moved data between the trade-capture/scheduling system and the risk/accounting system. Pricing formulas, risk and accounting reports, and key trade […]
Issue The client is a municipal electric provider replacing an outdated ETRM with limited internal resources. The client issued an RFP to replace an aging ETRM but was short on resources to run it: Staff needed help building scripts for vendors to follow in webinar and onsite demos. Unstructured demos would let vendors drive with […]
Issue Our client, a retail electric provider, engaged MidDel Consulting to assess their current systems and processes landscape. MidDel was engaged to provide a recommended course of action to improve their systems capabilities, streamline current operations, and lay the foundation for future profitable growth. MidDel conducted top-down and bottom-up analyses by meeting with management and […]
Issue The client is an energy company running separate ETRMs for the front office and for mid/back office. The client wanted to consolidate two ETRMs onto a single platform: One system handled front-office deal entry while another handled risk and settlements. The split arrangement carried excess cost and operational inefficiency. Consolidation promised to save thousands […]
Issue Our client, a large refined products blending company, implemented an ETRM system a number of years ago. The original software that was implemented failed to meet the needs around inventory valuation and reporting. This has resulted in manual work arounds for an extended period of time. The issue around blending and inventory management was […]
Issue The client is a wholesale power and natural gas trading operation replacing two internally built trade-entry systems. Two home-grown deal-entry systems, integrated with SunGard's Aligne, had to be replaced due to technical obsolescence: The client chose Allegro for deal entry, interfaced to Aligne for risk management. The internally built systems limited the business's ability […]
Issue The client is a marketer & trader managing pricing data across multiple databases, ETRM systems, and spreadsheets. Pricing data was scattered across too many sources to support: Price data was being overwritten across systems, corrupting the daily P&L. There were too many independent sources of pricing to maintain reliably. The client needed one trustworthy […]
Issue The IPP client runs an ETRM spanning deal capture, gas and power scheduling, position and risk reporting, invoicing, and accounting. The client needed to upgrade its ETRM to the vendor's latest platform, the foundation for later projects: A completely new invoicing and settlements module brought a new data model, forcing major changes to the […]
Issue Our client was considering the deployment of a portfolio risk analytics system throughout its global organization, but first wanted to prove the software’s applicability to the client’s unique set of challenges. The software needed to do the following: organize and store information obtained from multiple sources and in various formats; calculate and report exposures […]
