Utilities need to optimize asset reliability and adapt to rapid market changes – all while keeping tight control of costs. SAP solutions enable you to cost-effectively operate and maintain your grid infrastructure, manage new collaborative services, and automate deregulation processes.

SAP for Utilities enables you to perform critical business activities, including:

• Grid maintenance and operations – With SAP for Utilities, you can maintain and manage the entire transmission and distribution grid infrastructure. You can streamline procurement and construction processes, and plan for managed work-order activities. Your technicians have the functionality they need to handle repairs, maintenance, inspection, measurement, and customer service.
• Energy data management – With SAP solutions, you have a central repository for discrete and non-discrete meter-reading values and any type of interval data, independent of the measurement unit. You can perform complex calculations based on interval data.
• Reconciliation and settlement – SAP solutions enable you to handle all activities related to settlement, which has become a central component of the deregulated energy market. For example, you can determine the total consumption of all customers per retail utility in your operation area. Based on this information, the retail utility can provide information about its customers' future consumption to the independent system operator, in order to deliver the appropriate amount of energy and avoid costly regulated energy. The independent system operator can then compare actual and planned consumption of all customers per supplier in a given grid area.

These business processes are enabled with SAP applications such as SAP Energy Data Management. To find out how SAP Energy Data Management can help you improve your business processes, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about industry aaplications.