Utilities
The utilities sector is changing, focus on market competition, green energy and digitally serving your customers is driving huge change across the sector. Whether you are an energy producer, infrastructure manager or water provider you are seeing change and technology is key to achieving your goals.
At Bridgeall we have a long-standing relationship with the Utilities sector, the very first application we developed was for Scottish Power and we have continued to develop our expertise and experience especially in the water market.
Challenges
At Bridgeall we understand the challenges facing the utilities sector.
Trevi water market
We have taken our experience across the water sector including the water market regulator and control system and developed trevi.
Our trevi product family comprises of solutions for wholesale charge forecasting and revenue recovery and also the market-leading Trade Effluent billing solution. Trevi is used extensively with both Water retailers and wholesalers across the UK.
Utilities services
At Bridgeall we strive to deliver exceptional technology services to transform your business. We are a leading Microsoft Solutions Partner with a team of Microsoft certified consultants covering the full range of Microsoft Technology.
On top of these services we use our extensive domain experience in the water market to make organisations more profitable via our trevi platform.
We provide a full range of services to all of our sectors but below are some services we think are particularly relevant to the utilities sector and have worked with our utilities customers.
- Managed IT support
- .NET application development
- SharePoint Intranet development
- Data analytic services
- Trevi
Utilities case studies
WICS – Migration of Email and Shared Drive Content to the Cloud
Bridgeall implemented Office 365 for email and and migrate all file content from the on-premise shared drives into SharePoint Online in a structured manner. Consequently all versions of Office applications were upgraded and compliance ensured with Microsoft licensing.
Natural Power – A Bat Smart Curtailment System (BSCS)
NP, a leading independent renewable energy consultancy operating globally, required a system for the curtailment of wind turbines when a high risk of bat fatality is present on windfarms. In the US, the current blanket curtailment approach in response to high wind speed minimises bat fatalities (an endangered mammal) but at a significant economic cost to operators even when there are no bats in the area. Estimates suggest that 25% to 75% of curtailment hours may be unnecessary.
Working closely with NP and Elekon AG (a Swiss-based supplier of Batlogger equipment for recording and analysing the location of bats), Bridgeall custom developed the software underpinning a Bat Smart Curtailment System to minimise these economic costs. The system removes the need for blanket curtailment by monitoring bat activity in real-time, curtailing turbines only when relative risk value has reached a certain level.
MOSL – Settlements System for the Water Market in England
To fulfill its role as Market Operator for the world’s largest competitive water market, MOSL required a central solution to manage all market transactions and market-wide settlement of wholesale charges between the Wholesalers and Retailers.
Working in close partnership with the leading IT services provider CGI, Bridgeall successfully delivered the settlements sub-system at the heart of the Central Market Operating System (CMOS).Bridgeall developed the high-quality solution, which settles £2.5BN annually, over 15 months and after a further 6 months of market testing only 7 minor defects were detected.
Energy Savings Trust – Reducing Scotland’s Carbon Footprint
EST is a social enterprise offering impartial advice on reducing the country’s carbon footprint. The Scottish Government asked EST to manage a project to design and build a register for the collection and validation of Energy Performance Certificates (EPC).
Bridgeall’s Microsoft accredited .NET development team designed, developed and deployed the new combined register within six months. An Agile development approach was essential to accommodate multiple third parties and frequent specification changes. The customised software solution developed by Bridgeall plays a key role in the Scottish Government’s drive to reduce the country’s carbon footprint, meeting the challenges of global warming. Circa 200,000 Energy Performance Certificates are generated annually from the new combined register.