Tx-Rails — Energy Pricing Sheet
The auditable underlay for Energy — generators, network operators, retailers, market operators, regulators, financiers, insurers. Cryptographic continuous audit + guarantee-of-origin + multi-jurisdiction settlement evidence, sitting underneath your existing SCADA, EMS, ADMS, billing, market-clearing, settlement, GHG-inventory, and certificate-registry systems. We don’t replace any of them — we bind to them via a published integration mode and produce tamper-evident, jurisdiction-independent records of everything they emit. See energy.md for the 26 federations covering the electricity + gas value chains + governance.
What you get
Three integrated capabilities, one platform:
- Continuous cryptographic audit infrastructure
Every dispatch instruction, every meter read, every market settlement, every emissions disclosure committed to a Byzantine-fault-tolerant ledger and Merkle-anchored to the Hedera public DLT. Continuous evidence stream replaces the periodic-disclosure-and-trust model that struggles under guarantee-of-origin fraud, Scope-2 misclaim, market-power-abuse investigations, and reliability-incident root-cause attribution.
Aligned with: AEMO settlement rules; AER compliance framework; ASIC climate-disclosure standards; ISSB IFRS S2; GHG Protocol Scope-2 market-based methodology; EU REMIT market-integrity rules; IEC 62056 / DLMS metering standards; NEM12 settlement formats; UK Ofgem RIIO performance frameworks; FERC Order 2222 DER aggregation; CFE / ESO / IESO equivalents. - Multi-counterparty settlement with smart-contract-equivalents
Bilateral PPA settlement, automated capacity-market activation, real-time DER aggregation under VPP, guarantee-of-origin issuance + retirement, ESG/Scope-3 emissions evidence by default. Unlimited data capacity (database-backed, not on-chain). Your existing billing / market-clearing / settlement systems feed events via change-data-capture or atomic dual-write; the underlay produces verifiable settlement and provenance without anyone changing their existing operational workflow. - Regulator, market-operator & financier-grade evidence pipeline
Live data access for the relevant regulator (AER, AEMO, ESO, FERC, Ofgem, BNetzA, ARENA grant authorities); financier-acceptable evidence for green-bond and sustainability-linked-loan compliance; insurer-grade evidence for offshore-wind, transmission-asset, and storage-system underwriting.
What we sell — and what we don’t
What we don’t sell at any price: full transaction-front-end replacement. We don’t build your billing system, your customer portal, your trader terminal, your control-room HMI, your DERMS platform. Your operational screens stay put. If you need a new screen, your engineering team builds it against our published SDK with our reference connectors.
What we do sell falls into two groups:
A. Operator utilities (bundled — Items 2 + 4 in the pricing table)
- Evidence-retrieval portal — your compliance team pulls cryptographic proofs in response to regulator, market-operator, financier, or auditor questions. Generates evidence packs in formats acceptable to AEMO settlement-rules audits, AER compliance reviews, ASIC / ISSB climate-disclosure assurance, and green-finance verification bodies.
- Compliance-officer dashboard — live view of REMIT compliance, NEM-rule compliance, Scope-2 emissions intensity, certificate-of-origin retirement status, reliability metric (SAIDI/SAIFI/CAIDI) attestation, capacity-market obligation status.
- Trust-management UI — operator-side controls for your enterprise PKI: certificate issuance for plant operators / traders / settlement-system actors, revocation, counterparty onboarding (PPA counterparties, balancing-market participants), kill-switch.
B. Counterparty / market-participant attestation UI (optional — Item 5 in the pricing table)
Thin signature surface for external counterparties — PPA counterparties, capacity-market participants, DER aggregators, certificate buyers/sellers, large customers signing-off on Scope-2 disclosures, network customers signing-off on connection-agreement compliance. This is explicitly in scope for us to develop, distinct from the “no trader-terminal replacement” line above.
What it does:
– DID / certificate-based authentication
– Per-tenant queue of pending attestations (PPA dispatch confirmations, capacity-market activation acknowledgements, GO retirement signoffs, DER curtailment confirmations, network-connection compliance signoffs)
– Sign + submit with cryptographic proof landing in the BFT mesh
– Multi-tenant via entnum — each counterparty sees only their own queue
What it explicitly is NOT:
– A billing or settlement-system replacement
– A trader workstation
– A network management or DERMS platform
When you’d buy this: your existing counterparty interactions happen via PDF email + spreadsheet reconciliation, or your market-participant portal can’t carry M-of-N cryptographic co-signature.
Pricing — five line items, four budget homes (Item 5 optional)
| # | Item | Type | Indicative price (AUD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One-off integration & onboarding — integration-mode selection, wiring against your SCADA / EMS / ADMS / billing / market-clearing / settlement / certificate-registry systems, certificate-authority setup, UAT, launch | One-off CapEx — capitalisable over 3–5 years | A$150,000 – A$320,000 |
| 2 | One-off operator-UI configuration — evidence-retrieval portal skinned to your brand; regulator-export templates (AEMO settlement packs, AER compliance reports, ASIC / ISSB climate-disclosure formats, REMIT records, green-finance verification packs); compliance-officer dashboard customised; SSO with your IdP | One-off CapEx — capitalisable over 3–5 years | A$70,000 – A$150,000 |
| 3 | Annual support & maintenance (security patches, OS/library upgrades, 24×7 help desk for grid-critical operations, 99.95% uptime SLA for control-room-adjacent deployments, integration-mode adjustments, operator-UI updates for new regulator templates) | OpEx — renewable annually | A$110,000 / year |
| 4 | Tx-Rails platform access — BFT infrastructure, audit attestation, Hedera anchoring, dual-DC redundancy, regulator pipeline. Includes the three operator utilities. Tiered by pyramid count — see range governance below. | OpEx — annual platform subscription, pyramid-tiered | A$120,000 – A$2,500,000 / year |
| 5 | Counterparty / market-participant attestation UI (optional) — thin signature surface for PPA counterparties, capacity-market actors, DER aggregators, certificate buyers/sellers. NOT a trader-terminal or settlement-system replacement. | One-off CapEx — capitalisable over 3–5 years | A$80,000 – A$220,000 |
| Year 1 total (Tier-3 example: 2–3 pyramids, Items 1+2 mid-points, Item 5 excluded) | A$700,000 | ||
| Year 1 total with Item 5 mid-point | A$850,000 | ||
| Year 2+ ongoing (Tier-3 example) | A$400,000 / year |
Item 4 — pyramid-tier pricing:
| Tier | Customer profile | Pyramid count | Annual platform fee (Item 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 4 | Single-asset generator (sub-100MW wind/solar farm), small retailer, micro-grid operator — Shape 3 single pyramid or pilot | 1 | A$120,000 |
| Tier 3 | Mid-tier generator (multi-asset portfolio), Tier-2 retailer, regional DSO — focused 2–3 pyramids (Shape 2 small cluster) | 2–3 | A$290,000 |
| Tier 2 | Integrated utility, large retailer, TSO, capacity-market operator — Shape 2 grouped (4–7 pyramids covering electricity value chain or generation+retail+market) | 4–7 | A$750,000 |
| Tier 1 | Tier-1 vertically integrated utility, market operator (AEMO / ESO / FERC) — Shape 1 sovereign across multiple federations | 8+ | A$2,000,000+ |
Item 1 — what governs the range:
– A$150k floor — hash-only attestation (Mode A): your existing systems commit as normal; we receive only content hashes.
– A$320k ceiling — atomic dual-write (Mode B): your billing/settlement and Tx-Rails commit in the same transaction.
– Most operators land mid-range with change-data-capture observation (Mode C) at ~A$210–270k.
Item 5 — what governs the range:
– A$80k floor — single-flow attestation (e.g. just PPA dispatch confirmation), single counterparty role.
– A$220k ceiling — multi-flow hub (PPA + capacity-market + GO retirement + DER curtailment + Scope-2 evidence), multiple role tiers, DID auth, deep brand alignment.
Payback and ROI
For a Tier-3 mid-tier generator + retailer with ~A$600M annual revenue and ~A$100M in counterparty-settlement flow (PPA settlement, capacity-market settlement, network use-of-system charges, green-certificate trading, retail wholesale reconciliation).
| Annual benefit | Conservative | Realistic |
|---|---|---|
| Audit IT-controls displacement (external auditor + climate-disclosure assurance providers) | A$100,000 | A$300,000 |
| Settlement reconciliation & dispute overhead reduction (PPA settlement disputes, network UoS reconciliation, retail/wholesale settlement disputes) | A$400,000 | A$1,200,000 |
| Reduced leakage to settlement errors, guarantee-of-origin fraud, market-power-abuse penalties, REMIT enforcement | A$250,000 | A$1,500,000 |
| Insurance-premium reduction tied to telemetry-backed risk evidence (offshore-wind, transmission-asset, storage-system underwriting) | A$150,000 | A$500,000 |
| Regulatory compliance evidence (AEMO settlement audits, AER compliance, ASIC / ISSB climate-disclosure assurance) | A$150,000 | A$500,000 |
| Green-finance interest-rate margin reduction (sustainability-linked loans, green bonds — cryptographic Scope-2 evidence often unlocks 5–15 bps margin reduction; A$200M of green debt × 10 bps = A$200k) | A$150,000 | A$600,000 |
| Total annual value delivered | A$1,200,000 | A$4,600,000 |
| Tx-Rails Year 2+ cost (Tier-3 example) | A$400,000 | A$400,000 |
| Net annual return | A$800,000 | A$4,200,000 |
| ROI multiple | 3.0× | 11.5× |
Pilot terms — non-binding, parallel-run, zero operational risk
- 3 months running Tx-Rails alongside your existing systems. No production switchover.
- Mode A (hash-only) integration with one chosen federation (typically
tx-rails-energy-meteringfor retailers,tx-rails-energy-generationfor generators, ortx-rails-energy-market-opsfor traders) for the pilot. - Walk-away clause: if at month 3 the metrics don’t meet agreed targets, the engagement ends.
- Regulator pre-validation: before signing, we’ll meet with AER, AEMO, or relevant climate-disclosure assurance provider to confirm evidence-pack acceptability.
- Data ownership: cryptographic exports are open-format, re-readable indefinitely.
Why now
- ISSB IFRS S2 climate disclosures mandatory in most jurisdictions by 2026–27 — auditor assurance requires evidence beyond spreadsheet aggregation.
- EU REMIT enforcement — market-manipulation investigations require auditable trade records; ACER fines escalating.
- AEMO settlement-rule tightening — settlement-pack evidence requirements increased post-2022 NEM suspension review.
- Guarantee-of-origin fraud cases mounting — independently verifiable retirement evidence becoming a procurement requirement for corporate Scope-2 buyers.
- Capacity-market & VPP scale-up — multi-party settlement automation needs trust-substrate that no single market participant controls.
- Insurance market hardening — offshore-wind, transmission-asset, BESS underwriting increasingly demanding telemetry-backed evidence.
Next steps
- 30-minute discovery call with your CFO + Head of Regulatory + Head of Settlement.
- Letter of Intent — non-binding, signals pilot interest.
- Pilot kick-off within 8 weeks of LOI.
Contact: John Olsen · john@itotchaincloud.com.au · +61 490 114 879
Reference data sources: AEMO Annual Settlement Reports; AER Compliance Reports; ASIC Climate-Disclosure Guidance; ISSB IFRS S2 implementation studies; IEA World Energy Outlook; CER (Clean Energy Regulator) certificate-registry data; ACER / Ofgem REMIT enforcement statistics; Green Bond Principles / Climate Bonds Initiative assurance benchmarks. Full citations available on request.
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