Enersource Hydro Mississauga Deploys Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to Help Meet Smart Metering Requirements
Redwood Shores, Calif. – January 19, 2010
News Facts
Enersource Hydro Mississauga (EHM) recently replaced its legacy customer information system (CIS) with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to improve customer satisfaction and help comply with its soon-to-be-implemented Time-of-Use (TOU) billing requirements.
New smart metering regulations in Ontario have led local distribution companies (LDCs) such as EHM to make dramatic changes to their existing CIS to support TOU rates.
EHM, an energy distribution company serving more than 188,000 residential and business customers in the City of Mississauga, deployed a foundational CIS with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to meet these requirements.
Since all LDCs in Ontario operate under the same general rules of the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), EHM has collaborated with other utilities on implementing its respective systems and sharing costs, as well as addressing changing OEB regulations, including monitoring and reporting requirements, more rapidly.
Using the Oracle solution, EHM is able to effectively manage the transactions between retailers and utilities, which is important because retailers in Ontario sell power to some customers, but use the utility for all power delivery and billing services.
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing helps further EHM’s use of smart grid technologies with effective capturing and billing for energy consumption based on interval meter reads for commercial customers and, in the very near future, residential customers.
Supporting Quotes
“We chose Oracle because of its expertise in the Ontario marketplace. Oracle has a proven ability to deliver total solutions that help us meet regulatory requirements, adapt to the ever changing marketplace and continue to not just meet, but surpass customer expectations,” said Dan Pastoric, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Enersource Hydro Mississauga.
“Enersource’s legacy billing systems and growing customer base challenged its ability to meet the evolving and complex regulatory and open-retail market requirements, while effectively managing customer service and billing requirements. Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing provides a foundation for enabling compliance with regulations and improved customer care,” said Stephan Scholl, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities.
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About Oracle Utilities
Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities.
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Caroline Yu
Oracle
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Janice Hazen
O'Keeffe and Company
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