Electric Utility Load Settlement and Wholesale Billing Services

The vendor required to provide electric utility load settlement and wholesale billing services to the black-foot people past, present and future while recognizing and respecting their cultural heritage, beliefs, and relationship to land.
- Load settlement
•    Process retailer site enrolment requests and provide confirmation transactions. 
•    Coordinating the energization and de-energization of new and existing sites with the city operations and utility services staff. 
•    Receive interval and cumulative meter data in the form of meter data management (MDM) transactions. 
•    Perform validation, estimation and editing of meter data as defined by the load settlement agent (LSA) function in the system settlement code (SSC). 
•    Validate the energy consumed at each site using data from the MDM service provider and deemed profiles for unmetered sites.
•    Allocate the energy to each retailer. 
•    Forward SSC transactions to retailers, other stakeholders, and to other partners as required under both SSC and (for) internal process requirements. 
•    Generate wholesale settlement transactions as required by the SSC. 
•    Calculate and allocate system losses and UFE to each retailer 
•    Provide settlement results to each retailer, the city and the state electric system operator. 
•    Provide market participants with settlement performance measures. 
•    Provide and update the site id catalogue. 
•    Calculate and provide the net system load shape and other class profiles as required including the possibility where interval data is provided for all customers (i.e., The profiling cap set as low as 0 (zero)) except those that are unmetered. 
•    Provide wire service provider, WSP customer care for retailers. 
•    In other words, the proponent is expected to be the first line of contact (and response) for retailers that require assistance or file complaints. 
•    Provide PFEC and PFAM functionality as required. 
•    Provide historical data for each customer as required by current rules and regulations. 
•    Customer data for 18 months is required for ‘live’ access. 
•    Accommodate and comply with the Microgen regulation requirements as it pertains to load settlement and wholesale billing functions 
•    Provide monthly reports to the city in csv format or as required. 
•    Upload monthly financial data (for example, accounts receivable invoice data for each retailer), as required, to the city general ledger. 
•    Upload monthly financial data with regards to regulated customers as required by the city of billing agent (currently the provision of TBF data to the retail billing agent for the rate of last resort (ROLR) is deemed to be sufficient for this function).  
•    Provide timely and accurate site-by-site tariff bill-ready information to retailers and to the regulated rate provider, as defined in the commission rules. 
•    Includes provision of col-25-227; electric utility load settlement and wholesale billing services usage information, calculating tariff charges and applicable one-time charges and presenting tariff charges to retailers and the ROLR.
- Wholesale billing
•    Calculate distribution access charges on a daily basis from the results of initial settlement. Report distribution access charges daily subtotaled by wire rate class with details for each billing determinate by rate class. 
•    Calculate the difference in distribution access charges as a result of interim and final settlement. 
•    Produce monthly wholesale bills and manage monthly receivables. (“manage” in this context includes the initial billing of all retailers, monitoring the receivables through communication with city staff, calculating penalties for delinquent accounts as identified in conjunction with city staff, and applying those penalties on subsequent invoices).
•    Provide a customer care center for retailers.
•    Provide a monthly report to assist the city in monitoring prudential requirements.