Energy market service provider
Energy market service providers are companies that provide business processes for the market roles that exist in the energy market (which result from the Energy Industry Act, among other things ). On the one hand, market roles of the energy industry (e.g. supplier or metering point operator) can be assumed by energy market service providers themselves and, on the other hand, services can also be provided on behalf of the market players.
Possible business processes
Business processes in the energy industry contain extensive tasks which, in addition to core areas of the various market players such as generation, network operation, energy supply and metering point operation, also include regulated processes. Regulated business processes include B. those processes that have been or will be evaluated and standardized by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to increase competition in the energy sector . The specifications of the Federal Network Agency, such as B. GPKE and GeLi Gas (business processes for changing suppliers for electricity or gas), GABi Gas and MaBiS (rules for accounting in the gas and electricity sector) and WiM (business processes in metering), contain detailed regulations on process steps, deadlines and formats that are specified in in the companies and in the communication between the market players.
Market players
Energy market service providers who take on tasks in the energy market include billing, metering and IT service providers, metering companies and service providers, metering point operators, consulting companies, call centers and debt collection service providers who, for example, B. provide services for energy supply companies, such as distribution network operators , municipal utilities , regional suppliers, etc.
Possible tasks
The offers from energy market service providers are of central importance on the energy market, because the increasingly complex legal and competitive regulations require increasing specialist competence in the market, which is increasingly covered by the use and know-how of service providers.
Energy market service providers take on all those tasks that the supplier - based on strategic and / or economic interests - outsource. Current areas of activity include the use of so-called "intelligent meters" ( smart meters ), the implementation of specifications of the Federal Network Agency (e.g. GPKE, GeLi Gas, WiM), implementation of the requirements from the EnWG (e.g. faster Change of supplier within three weeks) or generally the efficient use of optimal IT systems in the energy market, important issues that are supported by consulting services or process implementation by energy market service providers.
literature
- A Müller: The optimization of the processes is necessary. In: Energy & Management. May 2011.
- Prevent Sisyphus Situations. In: energy spectrum. No. 1, 2011, pp. 54f.