Distribution

• Determining the appropriate commercial model and roles for distributor, shipper and supplier
• Defining, allocating and where necessary rationing capacity, including consideration of interruptible services
• Designing (and getting approval) for tariff methodologies and new connection policy
• Managing a constructive regulatory relationship, including the negotiation of price or revenue controls
• Shaping and responding to new incentives for efficiency, including benchmarking operations to demonstrate (or encourage) productivity
• Creating & managing the commercial, operational and physical interfaces between transmission and distribution to ensure safe and efficient operations
• Ensuring security of supply and reviewing or establishing appropriate security standards and criteria
• Administering customer supply point transactions as needed on behalf of shippers and suppliers
• Establishing unambiguous arrangements for allocating and attributing title of gas between shippers and suppliers
• Determining the need for more frequent meter reading and data loggers, and developing algorithms to estimate demand for customers without daily metering
• Reorganising the business and developing new skills such as regulatory management
• Developing appropriate and flexible IT systems to support shipper operations
• Billing shippers accurately and managing credit risk
• Establishing supplier of last resort arrangements in the event of insolvency