MGA has comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of utilities companies, including meter management, integration requirements (internally and to the market), compliance, GIS, business intelligence, and financial and billing requirements. MGA has expert capability in all aspects of the product set as well as the supporting infrastructure.

The MGA team assisted in setting up the first electricity market in Australia. The role included data modelling of the market applications, managing the underlying databases, implementing high speed data replication within NEMMCO (now AEMO) as well as to retailers and distributors. MGA also developed Outage Management Software, assisted in data warehouse design & setup and performed similar roles for utilities companies across US.

Performance Testing and Tuning Experts

MGA is the chosen performance partner for a number of utilities companies in Australia, the USA and UK.

MGA was responsible for the performance, robustness, and scalability of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) electricity rollouts at Jemena and United Energy. Products requiring testing and tuning include SAP, Cognos, Itron IEE, webMethods, Java, XML, Oracle and SQL Server.

Origin Energy uses MGA consultants for performance tuning of the core SAP system and business intelligence system.

Database Administration and Development Experts

MGA provides data and database consulting services for many utilities companies. Our sound understanding of the business requirements of utilities companies and the end-to-end software & infrastructure required to run a utilities business places MGA in a strong position to provide focused support.

MGA performs application and operational DBA (Oracle, SQL Server & PostgreSQL) support for Jemena, United Energy, Origin Energy, Citipower / Powercor and others.

MGA designed and developed large portions of the AMI MRO rollout for United Energy as well as Business Intelligence for United Energy and Origin Energy.

Background in Energy & Utilities

  • MGA worked with NEMMCO (now AEMO), ABB Forstar and Wise Technology to take Australian electricity market live
  • United Energy and Multinet Gas (UE & MG) established agreements for the provision of IT services with ASG Group, Accenture, and Mark Gurry & Associates (MGA).
  • MGA produced Origin Energy’s “Move to the Cloud” strategy, assisted with the migration and today provides 24x7 managed support for the 400+ databases that were moved to the Cloud

MGA Utility Clients include:

  • Jemena
  • United Energy / Multinet Gas
  • Origin Energy
  • Citipower / Powercor
  • Ergon Energex
  • Southern California Edison
  • TNB Malaysia
  • Intergen
  • Itron Inc US
  • AEMO