About REBO
REBO was formed in 2001 by Thomas E. Root to use his skills and experience
to help players in the deregulated electric market develop or improve
their information systems. Prior to forming REBO he ran the deregulated
retail electric back office at DTE Energy providing marketing support,
competitive intelligence, and information and management systems services.
He led the retail back office operations for DTE Energy Marketing
and provided data management and forecasting services to DTE Edison
America, DTE Energy Trading and Green Mountain Energy. His group provided
ever increasing services to these companies as the managed sales volume
grew by 250%/yr. Using a phased approach to system development around
a customer information core, he built and implemented a marketing back
office system at a fraction of the cost of commercial products, and
reduced $/MWh operating cost by 90% over three years.
REBO's experience in information and management services includes development, implementation
and integration of offer management, contract and agreement management,
EDI and XML certification and processing, forecasting, billing, accounting,
reconciliation and risk management. REBO brings over 42 years of experience
in the electric industry with over 17 years of experience in back office
management, operation and system development in deregulated electric
markets.
We have experience with deregulated electric markets in Delaware, Maryland,
Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
REBO has data management and forecast experience for natural gas with Dominion
East Ohio and Columbia of Ohio in Ohio, and Southern California Gas and Pacific
Gas & Electric and California.
REBO has extensive experience in implementing New Energy Associates (NEA)
RetailOffice® software. We have:
- Developed utility specific configuration documents providing NEA with the functionality, data sources, and reporting requirements,
- Developed and implemented data testing and cleaning to assure complete and accurate inputs to the forecasting module,
- Developed multi-stage testing plans to assure that the system has been configured as specified, including data acquisition and processing, and
- Rigorously and systematically implemented the testing plan to verify that the system is performing per configuration specifications and to establish expected forecasting accuracy.
REBO has provided products and services to AEP Retail, ANC Retail,
Commerce Energy, Cook Inlet Power, CSMS&T, Dillon Energy Services,
DTE Electric America, DTE Energy Marketing, DTE Energy Trading, Green
Mountain Energy, National Technical Systems, Strategic Energy, and WPS/Quest.