EDI introduction concept for Austria

E-Control GmbH (ECG) was set up by the Austrian legislative body on the basis of the Energy Deregulation Act. Its task is to monitor and supervise the deregulation of the Austrian electricity and gas market and intervene regulatively, if necessary. The Austrian Federal government retains 100% of the shares in Energie-Control GmbH. Managing this stock is the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of the Economy. According to E-Control's specifications, network operators (starting from different key dates, depending on the size of their customer base) are obliged to forward network settlement data to suppliers by electronic means, if requested by service recipients (energy consuming customers). Unlike the structured data transmission in Germany, governed by the GPKE (Portrayal of business processes for initiating and processing network access when delivering electricity to customers), in Austria this is merely data reception.