In our experience, few Market Participants in the UK de-regulated Gas and Electricity Industries are able to support their responsibilities with a true dual fuel system solution. It is usual for legacy systems to be used as far as possible in order to achieve a level of compliance with individual market rules that is just sufficient, rather than take an overall view. This may be least cost in the short term, but will leave the participant in a non-competitive position as the markets mature, and consolidation of activities occurs.

Indefine offers a system architectural service that produces an optimal dual fuel strategy for long term business benefit, with appropriate use of legacy systems.

The Indefine service includes:

• Review of existing system footprints.
• Analysis of existing system functionality.
• Review of market position.
• Analysis of market trends.
• Development of dual fuel meter reading strategies.
• Guidance on the scope of meter operation, asset provision and meter reading agency contracts.
• Review of regulatory direction.
• Mapping existing system functionality onto expected needs.
• Generation of architectural road-maps for workshop study.
• Facilitation of workshops to chose potential architectures.
• Further detailed research into the potential architectures.
• Final presentation of recommended solution.

This service allows clients to focus rare and expensive systems resources onto the best architectural solution. Such efficient allocation is most likely to deliver, within defined timescales, a long term future for their activities in their chosen markets.