Run complex retail gas programs with full customer-level transparency and efficient agent/marketer pooling. Ideal for regulated utilities managing supply portfolios, pipeline contracts, and on-system nominations.
Operate complex retail programs with complete customer-level visibility and simplified agent pooling. GASTAR’s LDC Retail Choice module is built to support deregulated energy markets—making it easier for utilities to manage supplier relationships, streamline nominations, and ensure accurate settlements at every level
Maintain a shadow copy of your billing system’s customer attributes, allowing accurate tracking of pool participation, usage, and contractual details. Ensures seamless reconciliation between CIS and marketer nominations.
Empower third-party suppliers and agents with a secure, web-based nomination portal. Streamline communication and nomination workflows to reduce delays and minimize discrepancies.
Efficiently manage supplier pooling and validate flow allocations across customer groups. This module supports complex supplier arrangements and ensures accurate tracking of capacity and demand.
Incorporate real-time and historical weather data into forecasting tools to improve accuracy. Helps marketers and utilities better predict demand under varying conditions.
Automatically track and settle imbalances based on actual daily and cycle meter reads. Enables accurate pooling, avoids penalties, and ensures smooth settlement with marketers.
Manage and monitor interruptible customers, ensuring compliance with utility policies and operational needs during peak events.
Generate accurate billing determinants and automate invoice delivery to pool managers or directly to your CIS system. Reduces errors and streamlines the billing cycle.
Monitor third-party marketer performance and enforce compliance with program rules. Gain visibility into nomination accuracy, imbalance trends, and participation metrics to improve accountability and optimize program outcomes.
Connect seamlessly to your operational and accounting platforms to eliminate inefficiencies and streamline workflows.
Includes user-based access controls for suppliers and marketers with full audit tracking. Ensures secure, compliant operation of all retail choice activities.
Supports both small and large-scale retail programs with dynamic pooling, multi-agent support, and customizable settlement rules.
Host GASTAR on-premises for full control or choose ENSYTE’s secure cloud (Azure, AWS, or Google) for managed scalability.
LDC Retail Choice is purpose-built for utilities operating in deregulated energy markets. With robust automation, transparent data sharing, and tools tailored for third-party supplier management, this solution simplifies complex retail gas programs. By streamlining nominations, pooling, and settlement, GASTAR’s LDC Retail Choice module helps utilities improve compliance, reduce errors, and enhance customer-level visibility.
Reduces administrative burden for managing third-party suppliers, nominations, and settlements—freeing your team to focus on higher-value tasks.
Eliminates manual reconciliation, increases accuracy in imbalance tracking, and ensures compliance with local market regulations and tariffs.
Provides marketers with direct access to critical data and forecasts, improving engagement and reducing errors.
Utility with 1.9 million gas customers was using several disconnected, outdated systems to handle the natural gas transactions, with manual processes and spreadsheets in between. Areas of major concern were: Nominations, Confirmations, Cashout Process, Interfaces, and Reporting.
ENSYTE implemented GASTAR Retail Choice with an integrated Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB) portal that was highly customized for the very complex business requirements around the nomination / confirmation process, pricing, operational notices, pool management, prior period adjustments, and more. The implemented solution includes a sophisticated Interface Module that includes: Weather, SCADA, Platts, Measurement, and SAP.
“Our goal with GASTAR was to consolidate all the different systems we were using to manage our gas business into an all-in-one system. GASTAR has accomplished that goal for us.”
– Manager, Energy Settlements
Contact us today for a personalized demo and discover how GASTAR’s LDC Retail Choice solution can improve accuracy, compliance, and collaboration in your retail energy programs.
