Red Energy

Red Energy is a stand-alone electricity retailer which entered the Australian National Electricity Market in 2004 and has achieved exceptional customer growth, quickly expanding its customer numbers from the word go. Red Energy is 100% owned by Snowy Hydro, Australia’s premier renewable energy producer.

Red Energy

Red Energy

Red Energy was keen to aggressively challenge its competitors by providing a “dual fuel” offering to customers by adding gas to its already successful electricity offering. In order to interact with the deregulated Victorian Gas Market hub, Red Energy needed software to manage the complicated XML protocols mandated by the market regulator, AEMO, and to gain a valid market certification. Red Energy then had to integrate the new gas market processes into its billing and CRM solution and other downstream information systems, which were customised to meet the needs of new “dual fuel” customers.
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Solution

Red Energy chose the Hansen UtilisoftCX. 
The FlowTalk module provides the only off-the-shelf application for comprehensive management of data flow messages in Australia’s national energy markets. The FlowTalk Integration module greatly simplifies integration to existing systems by abstracting the complexity of market messaging into the simplified uXML standard and allowing
for increased Business Process Automation. The GateKeeper module is the enterprise scalable,secure gateway server for exchanging, routing and managing energy market data
flows. GateKeeper supports validation, mapping and security for all commonly used data formats and file types.

HansenCX provided a Hosted Environment and Managed Services for the solution that removes the complexity of managing the market connectivity from the customer and also provides real time monitoring of business data to ensure that systems are always available.

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Solution

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UtilisoftCX enabled us to launch our “dual fuel” product within a tight timeframe and their integration layer delivered enhanced customer experience through increased business process automation.

Lucy Aston
CIO, Red Energy

Outcome

Outcome

By engaging Hansen UtilisoftCX to implement, host and maintain their energy market connectivity, Red Energy was able to enter the gas market, deliver to its business plan and provide fully market compliant gas products alongside its successful electricity product portfolio; on time and on budget. Red Energy now has a fully scalable solution with which they can continue to grow, not just within Victoria but into all Australian energy markets.
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Summary

Red Energy implemented a Hansen UtilisoftCX hosted solution to:

  • Provide “Dual Fuel” Offering
  • Meet Multiple Market Regulations
  • Integrate with CRM/Billing Systems
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Summary