LONDON, August 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enables Market Operations and Risk Management for Leading Wind Power Company

Ventyx(R), the world's largest private software provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced completion of an extensive MarketManager(R) implementation for Airtricity Holdings Ltd., a world-leading renewable energy company, to support operation in the new All-Island Single Electricity Market (SEM) ( http://www.allislandmarket.com/ ). The SEM, which went live on 1st November 2007, is the wholesale electricity market operating in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland under a new wholesale trading arrangement based on the gross mandatory pool approach. Airtricity rolled out the comprehensive operations management system from Ventyx to ensure accuracy, reliability and efficiency in energy trading data management and messaging with the Single Market Operator's (SMO's) central systems.

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MarketManager supports wholesale energy trading, scheduling, settlement, validation and communications activities based on the SEM's new market rules and timelines. The system transmits Airtricity's energy bidding information to the SMO and also retrieves generation and demand information, market settlement statements and invoices from the SMO.

"MarketManager proved flexible enough to meet the unique regulatory requirements of the SEM market opening. That flexibility will allow Airtricity to apply consistent risk management principles to a constantly growing and changing renewables market," said Spencer Lacey, Trading Manager at Airtricity.

Throughout implementation and delivery, Ventyx worked closely with Airtricity to develop business procedures to capture the realities of operating in the new market, build and manage data flows between various internal and external sources and participate in SEM market trials. For example, Ventyx recently added capabilities to allow Airtricity the ability to validate billing determinants at the market operator level, as well as forecast its credit cover requirements by pulling in and analyzing generation, market price and customer demand data streams.

Airtricity is one of six SEM market participants powered by MarketManager and expertise from Ventyx. "Ventyx has proven the performance and capabilities of our solutions and the unmatched expertise of our personnel through our support of the SEM," said Ventyx President and CEO Vince Burkett. "All of our installations successfully went live on the same day, a testament to the system and employee experience. We are proud to be a solution provider to the SEM participants."

About Airtricity Holdings Ltd.

As the renewable arm of Scottish and Southern Energy Group, Airtricity is a world-leading renewable energy company developing and operating wind farms across Europe and Asia. The company is both a generator and supplier of electricity and currently supplies green electricity to over 40,000 commercial customers in Ireland. The company has 24 wind farms in operation throughout Ireland and the UK resulting in over 600MW. A further seven wind farms totaling more than 100MW are under construction with a global pipeline of approximately 12,000MW.

For more information, please visit: www.airtricity.com

About Ventyx

Ventyx is a leading business solutions provider, delivering asset management, mobile workforce management, customer care, energy trading and risk management, energy operations, and energy analytics solutions to more than 900 energy, utility and communications customers, as well as to asset-intensive customers in selected commercial markets. With approximately 1,200 employees in more than 20 locations worldwide, Ventyx delivers best-of-breed business solutions that maximize operational and financial performance, backed by the industry's deepest available industry-specific domain expertise. For more information, visit our Website at www.ventyx.com

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