Industry Governance Group 16/01/2018
Industry Governance Group
16/01/2018
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Minutes from Previous IGG Meeting 13:30 – 13:35
Review of Action Items 13:35 – 13:55
CRU Update 13:55 – 14:10
De-harmonisation Update 14:10 – 14:20
GDPR Update 14:20 – 14:30
Retail Market Design Service Update 14:30 – 14:45
MRSO Update 14:45 – 14:55
ESBN Networks Update 14:55 – 15:10
Gemserv Update 15:10 – 15:20
AOB 15:20 – 15:25
Next Steps 15:25 – 15:30
IGG Agenda
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Minutes from previous IGG
For Approval Today:
• Minutes (v2.0) from IGG 25.10.2017
• Minutes (v1.0) from Conference Call 06.12.2017
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IGG Actions
Updated IGG Action List issued in advance of meeting
• 12 Actions closed since last IGG meeting
• 10 IGG Actions carried forward
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IGG Actions - Closed
AP No. Title
Org.
Assigned to Date Closed Date Raised
1049 CRU Rebrand - CRU to provide an update on the CRU Rebrand. CRU 25/10/2017 08/03/2017
1082
Industry postion on GDPR - ESBN to consider providing information on the
ESBN GDPR Project ESBN 25/10/2017 30/08/2017
1087
Debt Flagging - MRSO to investigate if the Debt Flagging Figures can be
broken down to Prepay versus credit MRSO 25/10/2017 30/08/2017
1088
Debt Flagging - Suppliers to review the Debt Flagging CoLE examples
provided by MRSO and to revert to MRSO with which decisions they agree
with and which they do not. Suppliers 25/10/2017 30/08/2017
1093
Street Disconnections delays: SSE Airtricity to send the examples of MPRN
disconnection delays to ESBN. ESBN to revert to SSE Airtricity on this matter. SSE/ESBN 25/10/2017 04/10/2017
1094
ESBN Meter Project – ESBN to either circulate an update and/or give a
presentation on the testing phase of the Project at the next IGG ESBN 25/10/2017 04/10/2017
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IGG Actions – Closed Cont.
AP No. Title
Org.
Assigned to Date Closed Date Raised
1045
De-energisations - ESBN to consider ways of making the Market Message &
Engagement Process between ESBN and Suppliers clearer. ESBN and
Suppliers to consider what can be done to benefit Suppliers and to revert with
detailed suggestions. (ESBN’s Step by Step elements are as follows):
• ESBN to rebrief supervisors and NTs on correct process
• ESBN to include importance of information accuracy in briefing
• Suppliers to provide useful information if available
• ESBN and Suppliers to work together collaboratively to tackle special cases
• ESBN to review LTNA process and aged access profile
• ESBN to outline the initiatives in place to obtain meter readings
(Follow-on from Actions 948/1004 closed at IGG on 08/03/2017). ESBN/ Suppliers 06/12/2017 08/03/2017
1089
Debt Flagging - Based on the feedback from Action 1088, MRSO to consider
potential tweaks to their CoLE decision process MRSO 06/12/2017 30/08/2017
1095
De-energisations - CRU to meet with ESBN to discuss open IGG actions
relating to de-energisations and in particular actions 1045 and 1080. CRU/ESBN 06/12/2017 25/10/2017
1096
Debt Flagging - MRSO to circulate via RMDS a summary of verbal
presentation and background information provided by MRSO at IGG on
25/10/2017 MRSO 06/12/2017 25/10/2017
1098 LTNA - ESBN to circulate individually to Suppliers their LTNA lists ESBN 06/12/2017 25/10/2017
1100 GDPR - RMDS to add GDPR as a standing item of future IGGs RMDS 06/12/2017 25/10/2017
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IGG Actions – Open
AP No. Title
Org.
Assigned to Date Due Date Raised
1077
P1 Safety Incident - ESBN to investigate and potentially raise a DR on how the
existing market design could be improved to lessen the likelihood of such an
incident occurring again. ESBN 16/01/2018 26/07/2017
1079 CRU to update the IGG with regard the ESBN SLAs.(Linked to Action 1051) CRU 16/01/2018 15/08/2017
1080
ESBN to consider providing more detailed de-energisation statistics to the IGG
with particular focus on the breakdown of the following statistic: 30.7% could
not be de-energised. ESBN 16/01/2018 15/08/2017
1083
Price Changes - CRU to communicate to CRU networks team, concerns
raised by Suppliers concerning tight timelines between publication of tariff
papers and Supplier implementation dates, with a view to providing a workable
solution. CRU 16/01/2018 30/08/2017
1086
Debt Flagging Consultation - CRU to provide an update as to when the Debt
Flagging Consultation will be published. CRU 16/01/2018 30/08/2017
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IGG Actions – Open Cont.
AP No. Title
Org.
Assigned to Date Due Date Raised
1091
Use of Change of Supply Process to facilitate Supplier Company Name
Change Arrangements (20 Day Rule) - CRU & RMDS to assess how any
future instances of this nature are managed considering Market Design,
Market Communications and Customer Communications to include
potentially: changes to market process, communication with customers and
assurance. CRU/RMDS 16/01/2018 30/08/2017
1097
Debt Flagging - Suppliers to revert with comments on the information provided
by MRSO (1096). Comments should be limited to potential improvements in
difficult cases. Suppliers 16/01/2018 25/10/2017
1099 LTNA - Suppliers to arrange bilaterals with ESBN to discuss their LTNA lists Suppliers 16/01/2018 25/10/2017
1101 LTNA – ESBN to circulate any LTNA learnings to the IGG ESBN 16/01/2018 06/12/2017
1102
ESBN to circulate the Christmas & New Year arrangements for Prepayment
Meters to the IGG ESBN 16/01/2018 06/12/2017
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CRU Update
16.01.2018
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Elaine Gallagher, CRU
De-harmonisation Update
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Elaine Gallagher, CRU
GDPR Update
Retail Market Design UpdateCarl Murphy, RMDS
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• Process to procure the services of previous consultant Deloitte has commenced
with an expected appointment in Q1 2018.
LTCA
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DR1184 – Cooling Off for CoS
• This DR is under review with CPCC and CRU.
2017 StatisticsCarl Murphy, RMDS
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2017 IGG Actions
8 carried forward
from 2016
60 Actions closed in
2017
10 open at year end
• 70 New Actions created in 2017
• 8 Actions carried forward from 2016 (all 8
were closed in 2017)
• 60 actions closed during 2017
• 10 Actions open at year end 2017 (2 only
logged on 6th Dec 2017)
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2017 Closed Actions – No. of weeks to close
• 48% of the Actions raised in 2017 were closed within 4 weeks
• 17% closed in 8 weeks
• 10% closed in 12 weeks
• 3% closed in 16 weeks
• 6% closed in 20 weeks +
• 7% (10 Actions) still open at the end of 2017
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2015/2016/2017 - No. of new actions opened
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2017 Change Requests Summary
0
2
4
6
Reversioned(RoI NS)RoI Non Schema
5
3
New & Re-versioned Change Requests
0
2
4
ROI Non Schema ROI NS(Reversioned)
4 4
2017 Change Request Approvals
144
37
183
258
99
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Average
MCR1188
MCR1187
MCR1185
MCR1181
Number of Days to approval for standard MCRs
Ni Non-Schema
are excluded
from that stats
above.
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Change Requests Summary per Year
0
5
10
15
20
2015 2016 2017 Average
17
13
8
12.7
New & Re-versioned Change Requests per Year
6
5
1
4
2015 2016 2017 AVERAGE
MCRs Implemented per Year
15
108
11
0
5
10
15
20
2015 2016 2017 Average
Approvals Per Year
94
81
58
144
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
Average
2015
2016
2017
Average Time from Raised to Approval per Year
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New Market Participants 2017
Includes 4 market
entrants whose
applications were
received in 2016
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Applications Effective In Process
New Market Participant Activity 2017
large Self Supplier
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New Entrants 2015 - 2017
• The New Entrant is categorised as belonging to a particular year based on the receipt of their Application
• The Large Supplier category has seen 4 Market Entrants over the last 3 years
• There has been an increasing number of New Entrants entering the Self-Supplier category over the last 3 years
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Total Self Small Large DSU Export Only
New Entrants by Type 2015- 2017
2015
2016
2017
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Requalification's 2015 - 2017
• Requalification’s are categorised as belonging to a particular year based on the receipt of the Application for
requalification letter.
• There was 2 Material requalification in 2017
0
1
2
3
Total Small to Large Material Export Only to Small
Requalification’s - 2015 - 2017
2015
2016
2017
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Assurance Completion/Effective in the Market
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
175
200
225
250
275
300
325
350
Self Small Large DSU Export Only
Day
s
Assurance Completion and Effective in the Market 2015 -2017
Assurance completion Effective
• The time to become effective following assurance completion for Self Supplier, DSU & Export Only Suppliers
is as a result of the Wholesale aspect and the Network Infrastructure build/connection
• 4 Large Supplier and 1 Small Supplier became effective during 2015 - 2107
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Market Participants at end of 2017
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
32
34
Large Small Self -Supplier DSU Export Only
Total Market Participants
16
9
34
9
4
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2017- Outages
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2017- Outages
• 61% of all outages in 2017 impacted both NI and ROI at the same time.
• Outages were highest in July - September 2017 (2 each month)
• There was an Outage each month of the year.
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2017- Outages
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Upcoming Outages for ROI
The 3rd Sunday in March falls on the March Bank Holiday weekend.
ESBN is requesting to schedule the outage weekend instead on the 4th
Sunday of March - Sunday 25th March 2018.
Can all MPs agree to this outage date change?
MRSO Update Gerry Halligan
16th January 2018
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Debt Flagging
Oct-17 Nov-17 Dec-17
Total Debt Notifications received (012) 200 (36) 258 (42) 163 (27)
Total Debt Notifications not forwarded for
reason implied or explicit CoLE, timeout, etc.56 (5) 63 (7) 32 (0)
Total Debt Notifications sent to gaining
supplier (112)144 (31) 195 (35) 131 (27)
Total not cancelled 89 (24) 134 (30) 83 (23)
Total cancelled 55 (7) 61 (5) 48 (4)
Total Debt Notifications sent to gaining
supplier as % of total COS0.6% 0.6% 0.5%
Figures in brackets represent situations where an ESB Networks PAYG meter
is installed.
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Debt Flagging
Jan-17 Feb-17 Mar-17 Apr-17 May-17 Jun-17 Jul-17 Aug-17 Sep-17 Oct-17 Nov-17 Dec-17
Total Debt Notifications received 237 283 291 305 320 239 216 217 224 200 258 163
Total Debt Notifications sent to gaining supplier 178 197 203 250 241 173 171 165 167 144 195 131
Total Cancelled 63 93 79 79 78 83 60 47 61 55 61 48
PAYG Debt Notifications sent to gaining supplier 22 28 31 35 27
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Total DebtNotifications received
Total DebtNotifications sent togaining supplier
Total Cancelled
PAYG DebtNotifications sent togaining supplier
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Objections – Erroneous Transfers
89
74
65
8690
160
85
105
85
7269
64
92
7773 75
103
8378
123
77
116
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Objections
Oct-17 Nov-17 Dec-17
No. of Objections 116 73 67
Cancellations from Objections 108 57 40
Objection emails to MRSO 9 16 11
Reasons:
Uncontactable by phone 3 2
Written communication 1 1
COS confirmed 8 12 9
Other
Escalation emails 4 2 6
ESBN Presentation to the IGG
John Bracken
16th January 2018
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Agenda
Retail Program Update- New Registrations (ROI)
- Extranet (ROI)
- Vulnerable Customers (ROI)
- Eircodes (ROI)
- Business As Usual
Post Meter Exchange Phase (Legacy)
Revenue Protection Update
ATOS
Smart Update
I-SEM Update
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Retail Market Programme
Business As Usual
I-SEM
NIE SAP IS-U SPs / ES Infrastructure
Meter Reading Replacement/
QH remote modems pilot
Smart Enablers Smart Implementation
MCR 1187
– Eircodes
interim
MCR1184 – Cooling off (CRU Sign Off O/S
Release (to be agreed)
Non Schema MCR1179 -
Eligible customer files
on extranet
I-SEM go live 23.05.2018
Eircodes – MCR1140, MCR0175, MCR1169
Vulnerable Customers – MCR1173
Interim Public Lighting – MCR1167
New Unmetered Tariff (NI) - MCR1154
010 Customer Validation (NI) - MCR1183
Provide MP Business Reference for reading (Non Schema) – MCR1175
Interim New Registration Default – MCR1180
Non Schema MCR1176 -
Extranet Message
reordering
January
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New Registrations
Choosing Electricity Supplier:.
N.B. Once payment is received and the signed Connection Agreement is returned, you
must register your MPRN number with an Electricity Supplier before the connection
will proceed.
List and contact of Electricity suppliers.
BE energy TEL: 1800 817 383 Email: [email protected] WEB: www.beenergy.ie
Bord Gáis Energy Tel: 1850 632 632 ( Residential ) Fax: (01) 876 4118
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 1850 405 804 ( Commercial) Email: [email protected] Web: www.bordgaisenergy.ie
Energia Tel: 1850 363 744 (Commercial) Tel: 1850 300 700 (Residential) Fax: (01) 869 2050 Email: [email protected] Web: www.energia.ie
Electric Ireland Tel: 1850372372 Email: [email protected] Web: www.esbelectricireland.ie
Go Power TEL: : 01-866 5612 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.gopower.ie
Just Energy Tel: 1850 858 110 Email: [email protected] WEB: www.justenergy.ie
Panda power Tel: 1890 68 68 68 Web: www.pandapower.ie
Pinergy Tel: Sales1800 98 90 99 Customer Service; 1850 94 50 23 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pinergy.ie
Prepay Power Tel: 1800 910 010 or 021235909 Email: [email protected]
SSE Airtricity Tel: 1850 40 40 70 Web: www.sseairtricity.com
Vayu Tel: (01) 884 9400 Fax: (01) 876 1825 Email: [email protected] Web: www.vayu.ie
The above list is for information purposes only. A complete list of Electricity Suppliers is available from www.cru.ie. Alternatively you may call the CRU at 1890 404 404.
• Solution is due at Easter 2019
• Interim Solution is simply an
insert into new customer pack
• Date to be agreed but
expected by end of February.
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Extranet (ROI)
MCR 1176 Extranet Message Re ordering & MCR1179 Cessation of Eligible
Customer Files on the Extranet.
These are on track for implementation in Q1 2018 and firm dates will be
advised to market participants.
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Vulnerable Customers
As mentioned on the IGG call of the 6th December as part of MCR 1173 we are
introducing 3 new codes:
008 Dexterity Impaired,
009 Mental Health
0010 Other.
The code Other was requested as part of the MCR to allow ease of the introduction of a
new vulnerable code to be introduced into the Market if required without the requirement
of a schema change.
0010 is not to be used by Suppliers (i.e. Suppliers should not populate it on the
inbound market messages from their backend system to ESBN until such time it has
been agreed).
Where the code 0010 is submitted on an Inbound message to ESB Networks, the
message, in its entirety, will be rejected using the relevant rejection message, with
the Code IID and a Supplier will need to resubmit the message using a valid code.
This will be the case for the following messages: 010MM, 013MM, 016MM, 017MM
(with CoLE)
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Eircodes
MCR 1187 includes the fixing of an existing market defect. However while looking at the technical
solution, it was decided that it was more appropriate to apply the fix to the existing market defect (in
relation to the A2 correspondence address where a COS is cancelled) when the final solution is
being implemented at the end of Q1 2019.
ESB Networks wish to let Suppliers know they may use, if they wish, the postcodes field in the
market message on the A2 Correspondence Address only from 1st January 2018 to populate the A2
Correspondence Address with an Eircode noting the following:
Utilise the Postal Code Field on the A2 Address only where the A2 address is different from the A1
address
No initial population by ESBN of Eircodes into any A2 address Postal Code field. However, if
Suppliers populate this field it will be returned by ESBN on any subsequent market messages
There is no validation on the A2 address.
Postcode is not a mandatory field in the A2 correspondence address and it is a Suppliers
prerogative if they wish to use the field.
There should be no Mass Updates of the A2 address on the 013 message as this will cause
problems for the Central Market Systems and could potentially have a serious effect on its
performance.
Suppliers should not update the A1 Meter Point Address with an Eircode
Suppliers should not update the A3 Technical Contact Address.
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Business As Usual
Summary - OP 1451848 (Winter Time)
MRSO were alerted on 1st November 2017 to a problem encountered by two suppliers when uploading QH data
from MM341 and MM342 for the date 29th October 2017.
Issue
DST (Daylight Savings Time) ended at 02:00 on 29th October 2017. An extra hour of data is collected on the
29th October, i.e. data for 25 hours (100 x 15 min segment), the extra hour is between 01:00 and 01:59. On
investigation it was discovered that for 29th October 2017 (day the clock went back) the wrong offset was applied
in SAP-ISU resulting in the first iteration being omitted and the second iteration being duplicated.
Response
Between 30th October and 1st November, a total of 4,042 MM341 and MM342 messages issued to Suppliers. Of
these, 3,207 contained data for 29th October 2017. These messages were corrected and resent to Suppliers
between 2nd and 7th November 2017. MM341 and MM342 with data for 29th October sent after 1st November
have also been corrected and resent.
Root Cause
The Root cause of the problem is the SAP-ISU statement CONVERT INTO TIME STAMP. In the SAP
Production system NRP, for the specific dates 29.10.2017 and 28.10.2018, the ‘CONVERT INTO TIME STAMP’
ABAP statement erroneously interprets that Daylight Saving Time ends at 1am.
Business Impact and Solution
Suppliers were initially unable to upload QH data for 29th October 2017. All affected messages were corrected
and resent to Suppliers between 2nd and 7th November 2017. We have raised an Incident with SAP who are
currently looking at the issue for us in our Pre-Production Client.
Recommendations
ITS recommend removing the dependency on the CONVERT INTO TIME STAMP statement and suggest that a
CR be raised to implement this change.
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Post Meter Exchange Project
Exchange Program is Complete.
Outstanding item is Pre Program or Legacy Exchanges (LEMs).
2,637 meters were exchanged previously for many reasons and now reviewed using
system records.
- No NPAs
- 82% have no apparent issue
- 3% (76) were processed over the years
- 15% (400) templates now prepared with similar value ranges (excl outliers)
- Same customer at address in almost all instances
Next Steps:
- Advise suppliers of these MRPNs and Refund values and allow Stop/Go (7 day)
- Write to Customer advising of retro review and refund
- Pass to Supply Company in accordance with procedure
Close out Issue and continue with Customer at the centre of process.
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Revenue Protection Update
Update emailed to suppliers 21st Dec following meeting Red Cow 10th November.
• Calculate undercharges based on past consumption where possible so that undercharges will
be billed as soon as possible after the detection of the interference.
Update - 40% now being done on past consumption and increasing.
• Suppliers to review how they operate the 260mm process
Update - a lot of issues dealt with and overall improvement reported
• RP to explore ways to target calls to maximise resources available.
Update - RP reporting on advance of readings in De-eng sites, Nil Cons and where
reader refused access. Plus targeted local campaigns planned for 2018
supported by Data Analytics project
• Suppliers to provide general data on unrecoverable RP related debt
Update – in progress
• Set-up meeting with NIE RP and Gas Networks to share experiences and report back.
Update – ESBN and GNI met with RP Staff from NIE in Finglas on 31/8/17 and some very
useful information was shared. S Gray also met with Geoff Cromie, RP Mgr NIE
separately on 18/10. It was agreed that further meetings and exchanges will take
place in 2018. ESB Networks RP Service presented to the UKRPA Conference
in Belfast on 23rd November.
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ATOS Transition
“As far as we are concerned, all is going well with any issues
hopefully addressed. I would however appreciate any feedback
from suppliers in case there are issues that are causing
concerns”.
Gary McQuoid Client Executive Atos NI
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SMART Metering update
• Project team mobilised
• From 30 people in Sept 2017 to 120+
• Additional Office Space being acquired
• Project executive appointed
• High Level Design underway
• AMI and Communications Procurement commenced
• Technical upgrades commenced
• Unicode
• SAP HANA
• Initial Supplier engagement in Dec
• Scheduling follow up meeting
• Governance Approach will be discussed at next meeting
• Non Smart MCR scope agreed and detailed design underway
ESB Networks I-SEM Programme
Presentation to the IGG
James Long
16th January 2018
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ESB Networks I-SEM Programme - General Update
We are continuing to work with the RAs, the EirGrid I-SEM Project and the other Meter Data
Providers through the I-SEM Metering Working Group
We are represented at the Market Trials Working Group which EirGrid’s I-SEM Project has
established.
At this time there remains NO Change to our understanding which remains that
• No Changes are indicated to the Harmonised Retail Market Schema or the COBL
• D+1, D+4, M+4, M+13 Settlements will continue to operate on a Working Day basis for
ESBN, with no change to Frequency
• Need to concurrently operate the SEM and I-SEM until Re-Settlement of the SEM completes
• No Meter Data will be Price Effecting in the I-SEM and so I-SEM will not use the Price-
Effecting category
• I-SEM Market Trials started on the 1st Dec 2017 and will run until 22nd May 2018
• The Go-Live date for the I-SEM is 23rd May 2018
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ESB Networks I-SEM Programme – Market Trials
• ESBN have recently completed CCQT (Communication Channel Qualification Testing) which was a phase of testing to establish connection to EirGrid’s I-SEM environments
• This phase provided Meter Data Providers with a technical environment in which we could
conduct an interface test to verify the ESB Network’s ability to interact with the Wholesale Market
• 590 Aggregated Market Message successfully sent and all relevant verifications received from I-
SEM Project team
• This was a prerequisite before ESBN could enter Market Trials and the scripted and unscripted
phases of the project
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ESB Networks I-SEM Programme – Market Trials
Information for Suppliers who opt-in to hook up their test EMMA
• The ESB Networks I-SEM Programme thanks all the Suppliers who have responded
to our request to hook up their test EMMA to the ESBN dedicated Market Trials
environment so to receive selected Retail Market Messages from the Unscripted
Market Trials
• We have started to engage with Atos to start this process and expect to have this
completed by the beginning of Unscripted Market Trials (26/03)
• ESBN has already contacted the relevant market participants detailing the initial list of
supply and generator units that are to be used as part of these trials
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ESB Networks I-SEM Programme – Market Trials
There are three phases of the EirGrid I-SEM Project’s Market Trials viz:
1. Establishment
2. Scripted
3. Unscripted
1. Establishment – starting 1st December 2017. During this phase all participants within the
wholesale market including ESB Networks will be connecting to the EirGrid I-SEM Project’s
Market Trials environment.
2. Scripted – ESB Networks will join the scripted phase of the Trial on the 7th Feb until the 15th
March when this phase will finish. We will run D+1 and D+4 settlements in line with the I-SEM
Project calendar during this period. ESBN will be required during this phase to provide values to
allow high demand / low wind and low demand / high wind scenarios to test the volatility of the
market. There is no requirement at this stage for ESBN to provide M+4 / M+13 re-settlement
aggregations.
3. Unscripted – This will start on the 26th March and run till the 21st May 2018. Again ESBN will
run D+1 and D+4 settlements in line with the I-SEM Project calendar during this period. Retail
Suppliers who have signed up to participate in the Market Trials will start to see the 342 and 59x
suite of messages from the 26th March onwards.
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Data
• Our ESBN dedicated Market Trials environment will not be updated with customer or meter movements, or NQH reads, but will have daily QH reads uploaded into it to reflect real time data.
Information for Suppliers who opt-in to avail of the facility to hook up their test EMMA
• Our intention is to block any 010, 015 or any other MM inbound from every Supplier Test EMMA that has been hooked up to our ESBN dedicated Market Trials environment.
• Exceptions will be considered on a case by case basis and we would appreciate early sight from yourselves should you be needing to submit any MM in ESBN’s dedicated Market Trials environment.
• Should an 010 be needed, say for a very large QH site, this would be expected to be similar to an 010 for an
MPRN that has already been submitted in the live production environment.
• As workflows complete out you can expect to see sundry MMs other than MM59x series of messages and 342 message for the Supplier’s generators, and this could be as early as from the time your test EMMA is hooked up to the ESBN dedicated Market Trials environment.
• Please note: As we work through detailed Planning for Market Trials, its becoming clear that we will not be in a position to send MM341 by default thru the ESBN dedicated Market Trials environment.
ESB Networks I-SEM Programme – Market Trials
53 esbnetworks.ie
ESB Networks I-SEM Programme – Sundry Information
MCR1182 Ver 4.0 is available at this path
https://rmdsie.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/mcr1182-impact-of-i-sem-on-the-retail-market-in-roi.pdf
• Q&As from the ESB Networks I-SEM Programme can be accessed via this path
https://rmdservice.com/i-sem-faqs/ ………..
• The current List of Distribution Connected Price Effecting Generator MPRNs is available on the
RMDS
website at this path https://rmdsie.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/site-specific-distribution-loss-factors-2017-20181.xlsx
• Mailbox for communications with ESB Networks I-SEM Programme is [email protected]
• External Link http://www.sem-o.com/isem/Pages/Home.aspx
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Retail Market Assurance Services for the
Irish Electricity Market
Sarah Fuller
16 January 2018
CRU approvals since last meeting
One new Self-Supplier Number and type of participants
assured by Gemserv since 2005NB this is not a reflection of the live market
position
Gemserv 56
13
8
38
8
5
Large Supplier Small Supplier
Self-Supplier Demand Side Unit
Export Only Supplier
Market Entry & Requalification
One Small Supplier ME
Still in the planning stage
Gemserv 57
Forward Work Plan
Gemserv 58
Dec 17 Jan 18 Feb 18
I-SEM Retail Market
Assurance
Assurance timetable to be determinedSmall Supplier ME
Sarah FullerAssurance Contract [email protected]+353 (0)1 669 4630
David [email protected]+44 (0)20 7090 7762
Questions
Gemserv 59
Rmdservice.com60rmdservice.com
AOB
IGG Meeting
Rmdservice.com61rmdservice.com
Next Steps
Diary dates for next meetings:
• Wednesday 7th February 2018
• Wednesday 7th March 2018 – Belfast
• De-energisation Workshop Thursday 15th February 2018 – CRU Dublin
Dates for 2018 are on Calendar of Events on RMDS website www.rmdservice.com
Thank You