Transparency Initiative: Gas Market Balance Sheets Online
inubit and Steria Mummert Consulting implement the GAS-X Portal at Thyssengas and NetConnect Germany
Berlin, 03 January 2011 – NetConnect Germany and Thyssengas have set a milestone for more transparent communication in German supply management. Thanks to the introduction of the new GAS-X Portal, market partners of the two entities responsible for the market area now have access to all balance sheet data for the first time. The GAS-X-Portal was developed by Steria Mummert Consulting and inubit and is part of consolidation projects for the German gas market.
The portal-based GAS-X solution enables all market participants to enter and view allocation data, submit declarations, and to subscribe to reports based on these. Thanks to the parallel start-up at NetConnect Germany and Thyssengas, the portal functions are available to customers in both market areas. The background of this development is the consolidation of market areas in the German gas market initiated with the Energy Market Act. Current legislation demands further reduction of market areas by April 2011.
“With the simultaneous start-up of the GAS-X Portal and the respective backend systems at Thyssengas and NetConnect Germany, customers in both market areas have the same access to their balance sheets,” states Matthias Gottschlich of Steria Mummert Consulting. “This step has created the basis for simplifying the further consolidation of the market areas. Nonetheless, there are still many open issues, and finding solutions to these by April 2011 will be quite a challenge.”
