Understanding Registration Points

Deregulated markets operate by passing transactions between market participants to manage market processes. Markets use a unique market identifier for market participants to identify the customer or premise that the transaction applies to.

Some markets will identify a customer at a premise and the unique identifier will change with each new customer at the same premise. Other markets will identify the premise as the unique identifier and all customers at that premise will use the same identifier.

A registration point can manage a unique identifier at the premise level, service point level or the service agreement level. Therefore, providing the ability to operate in all markets.

Registration points can be associated directly with market transactions and/or market processes. Transactions can be implemented to trigger from changes to a registration point, or any object associated with the registration point. Transactions from Market Participants are received and validated against the registration point and can update the registration point directory or associated objects.

A registration point search portal provides a central location for all transactions associated with a customer and/or premise to be viewed in a single location.

For implementations operating in deregulated markets, refer to your implementation documentation for further details relating to registration point(s) constructed for your market(s).

Refer to Understanding Market for more details on markets.