Central markets

Building competitive energy market infrastructures

Liberalization and deregulation are giving rise to the development of competitive energy markets around the world in which utilities compete for customers and market share. The success of these central markets depends on commercial infrastructures that bring systems, data and market participants together to facilitate the efficient sale and purchase of energy products and services.

CGI has been at the forefront of building and running these infrastructures for more than two decades. We deliver and operate the core IT systems and business processes that support centralized energy markets across the globe, including in the UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Australia. In fact, we have built and currently operate the infrastructures for 10 of the 16 energy markets in the world today.

What we offer

Our end-to-end energy market infrastructureservicesand solutions encompass the following:

  • Strategic consulting: CGI consultants collaborate with market operators to choose and implement strategies and solutions that address their unique challenges and ensure the competitiveness and success of their markets.
  • Systems design and implementation: We design and build innovative energy market systems that manage data, processes and market participants—efficiently, flexibly and securely.
  • Business process services: We not only implement the IT systems to support central markets, but we also set up and manage on an ongoing basis the supporting business processes and workflows.
  • Business intelligence: We provide innovative data management solutions that collect and analyze industry, market, customer and energy data to help you make better business decisions in managing and growing your market.

The value we deliver

CGI is the world’s leading provider of energy market infrastructure services. We bring systems and processes together to build and run highly efficient and customer-centric infrastructures that drive market success.

Our solutions reduce the inherent data exchange and process complexity within energy markets to achieve the following benefits:

  • Improved data collection and analysis
  • Improved data transparency and access among all market participants
  • Faster processing time, thanks to real-time processing
  • Reduced processing errors
  • Enhanced flexibility, scalability and security
  • Lower infrastructure costs
  • Increased retail competition

Why CGI?

CGI’s experience and success in delivering central market systems is unmatched; 10 of the 16 central market energy clearinghouses in the world have been implemented and are operated by CGI.We have an in-depth understanding of market regulation, information management and security, as well as expertise in sectors such as financial services and telecommunications, all of which is vital for successful infrastructure management.

Highlights of our work and capabilities include the following:

  • We developed and run the central energy market systems in the UK for Elexon. Our systems are fundamental to the settlement of the UK electricity market, which is considered to be the most complex, liberalized energy market in the world.
  • We successfully designed, developed and implemented the core IT solution supporting the liberalized New South Wales gas retail market. The solution, known as the Gas Retail Market Business System, includes delivery points, seven-day rolling forecasts of withdrawals, customer transfers, metering data, nominations, and data exchange with market parties.
  • We delivered the retail gas market system for the Retail Energy Market Company (REMCO), which represents the gas industry in Western Australia and South Australia. Our systems now operate three quarters of the contestable gas region in Australia.
  • In the Czech Republic, we delivered a central market solution and provide application management andinfrastructure hosting for electricity and gas market operator OTE. Services include the accounting and settlement of imbalances and the administration of supplier switching. We also provided a solution for market coupling between the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
  • Our experience also includes implementing infrastructures for central market operators in the U.S., Belgium, Iceland and the Netherlands.