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DATA TRANSFER SOLUTIONS

For over 20 years, ElectraLink has supported the evolution of the UK energy market with consistent and reliable delivery of the Data Transfer Network (DTN). From its inception in 1998, the DTN has supported competition and growth in the market through a flexible, secure and trusted data transfer mechanism that enables market participants to communicate and facilitate key market events.

Our Data Transfer Solutions cover the services provided under the DTS and many additional optional, commercial solutions that support the flow of non-regulated information across the utilities market. Outside of our Data Transfer Solutions, we deliver several different services utilising the data that is transferred over the DTN, highlighting our journey to transforming our services.

Data Transfer Products

These solutions enable your business to transfer market messages to a variety of industry participants throughout the utilities market.

Data Transfer Service

The DTS underpins the competitive UK Electricity, Gas and Water markets, enabling participants to work together to exchange information about their customers. This information interchange facilitates a wide range of business-critical processes including change of supplier, metering and how energy is paid for by suppliers (settlement).

RGMAConnect

RGMAConnect supports Gas and Dual Fuel suppliers and commercial metering agents to create and send RGMA flows, as well as providing an RGMA Data Flow Catalogue.

DUos e-Billing

An efficient alternative to transferring and validating paper or PDF bills between DNO and Supplier for Distribution Use of System charges.

CSSConnect

The Central Switching Service (CSS) is intended to deliver faster supplier switching for consumers. ElectraLink provides the connectivity for market participants to make this a reality. Built on the same infrastructure and integration points with market participants as the DTS, this service facilitates near real-time communication between market participants and the Central Switching Services.

Data Transfer Enhancers

These solutions help DTS customers to make the most of their connection to the industry and simplifies the transfer of market messages between industry participants to introduce efficiencies for businesses across the utilities market.

WebTools

WebTools is the one-stop shop for managing flows. This includes creating new routes; reviewing auditing information; generating, editing and recollecting files; managing your use accounts and generating reports.

FlowAlert

FlowAlert is a proactive email subscription service that triggers rapid alerts when DTS messages fail validation and cannot be sent.

FlowPortal

Designed with new or smaller suppliers in mind, FlowPortal allows you to create, send and receive data directly from your web browser.

Data Innovation Boosters

These solutions provide unique tools related to data transfer in the utilities market. This allows market participants to innovate and transform their existing data transfer solutions, creating interesting new products and innovative uses of existing industry infrastructure.

FlowBuilder

FlowBuilder helps you design, amend, test and share message templates that can be loaded onto the DTS. This allows energy market participants to swiftly upgrade and test their systems in time for catalogue changes and new industry requirements, and to facilitate information sharing in bi-lateral arrangements.

Check-it

Check-It allows you to guarantee that the electricity format files you compose have the correct structure and content before issuing them for transmission to other market participants. It also allows you to validate the files you receive from other market participants before accepting them into your internal systems.

FileCloner

FileCloner allows Data Transfer Network Users to send copies of data flows to a secondary destination without adversely impacting their daily operations.

Data Transfer Solutions