Harmonisation Working Group

Retail Market Design Service

Harmonisation Working Group

HWG Meeting Wednesday, 27th June, 2012

CER Offices Dublin

27th June 2012 Retail Market Design Service

HWG Agenda

Introduction Aileen O Connor, RMDS 12:30 – 12:35

HSG Meeting Feedback S mac an Bhaird, CER 12:35 – 12:40

Enduring Solution Project Update

12:40 – 12:45

ROI HSP Update Conor Garrigan, ESBN 12:45 – 12:55

Market Design Update A O Connor, RMDS 12:55 – 13:20

HWG To-Do List Review A O Connor, RMDS 13:20 – 13:25

AOB & Closing A O Connor, RMDS 13:25 – 13:30


Approval of Minutes

Minutes from HWG meeting – 23rd May 2012


Feedback from HSG of 06/06/12Topic Detail Review of matters arising from HWG

The approval by HSG of the following on 6th June 2012 was noted:

CR Number Request Description HSG Decision

MCR 166Addition of Generator Unit ID and Export arrangement ID to spreadsheet

Approved RoI Specific

DR 1118Updates to Enduring Solution NI Market Documentation

Approved NI Specific

DR 1119 Adoption of MP NI 501 509Approved Ni

Specific

MCR 73Proposal to make first name mandatory on market messages Approved

MCR 175 New reject reasons for address change rejection Approved

MCR 1096Customer Service Special Needs – expansion of ROI code set to align with NI practice Approved

Review of HSG Actions

Combined Terms of Reference for HSG and HWG to be circulated to HWG before next meeting on 27/06/12.

Update on Enduring Solution

Reasonably comfortable at Go Live as a result of the testing and

preparation done. All Suppliers had completed testing and certification.

260 NIE staff were trained and brought up to speed not just on SAP but

also on upgraded Satellite Systems. It has been a positive outcome

however there is close monitoring for NIE stability and also on the Power

NI side. There have been no major show-stoppers. Stability is good.

They have made some tweaks to Tibco and more to do. In process of

completing lst billing cycle end of this week and aggregation and

indications are pretty good.


Feedback from HSG HWG relevant topics covered by the Harmonisation Steering Group 6th June 2012

Detail RoI Harmonisation Project

The stability of ES is welcomed. The project has now exited the Build

phase as all design changes to the technical infrastructure have been

completed. The current Test Phase is internally focussed with system and

Integration testing 95% complete. The defect volume and their impacts

have been low to date and are fixed as they are identified. The Networks

business is entering the User Acceptance Test phase which will be

followed by market participant IPT. The EMMA roll-outs to the ROI

participants will be commencing this month and will take approx 4 – 6

weeks. The combined RoI/NI solution for those already operational in NI

will also need to be deployed. The Project will link in with NIE/Northgate

to co-ordinate this along with the ROI installations.

Harmonised Retail Development Plan

This has been approved and final version will be published shortly.


Enduring Solution Project Update

Joan-Edel Smith


ROI HSP Update

Conor Garrigan


Market Design Update – Workload Overview


DR 1117 V1 - MRC Consultation

Change Request MRC currently under review and two specific

processes are under development: MP NI 506 Ability Testing Procedure - To provide a

framework for Supplier Ability Testing and MP NI 507 Market Testing Procedure - To provide a

framework for Supplier Market Testing.

At Today’s Meeting: Classification as NI-Specific Requested

DR 1117


DR 1123 V1 – TCC Field Validation on 017

Change Request

An additional validation rule on 017 MM to make the Tariff Configuration Code (TCC) field mandatory when requesting Re-energisation of a prepayment meter.

If the TCC is not provided when requesting Re-energisation of a prepayment meter a 117R MM will be sent to the Supplier with Reject Reason code: ITF - Invalid Tariff Configuration Code.

At Today’s Meeting: Classification as NI-Specific Requested

DR 1123


Previously Approved MCRs for Approval

Number Version Origin Request Description Action Requested

MCR 33 V3.0 ROI New Field on 332 and 332W MM for Non-Interval De-Energisations

Recommendation for Approval

MCR 34 V3.0 ROI New Field on 332 and 332W MM for Non-Interval Re-Energisations Recommendation for Approval

V2.0 Classified as Harmonisation Impacting at HWG of 04/04/12

Approval was held over for review by Suppliers

Reversioned following post-Harmonisation Release Planning Workshop

At Today’s Meeting:

•Recommendation for approval of Version 3.0 of both MCRs

MCR 33

MCR 34


Previously Approved MCRs for Approval


MCR 69 V1.0 ROI Mod to XML schema to allow Market Participants communicate with full Irish Character Set

Classification as Harmonisation Impacting Recommendation for Approval

MCR 176 V2.0 ROI Email Address Validation Classification as Harmonisation ImpactingRecommendation for Approval Reversioned

At Today’s Meeting:

•Classification and Recommendation for Approval

MCR 176

MCR 69


DR 1122 V1 – Introduction of Essential Plant into the Market Design

Background

The traditional practice of ESBN has been not to de-energise essential plant for Non-Payment where Health & Safety issues may arise.

This DR seeks to introduce a new flag to allow for an MPRN to be identified in the Central Market System as Essential Plant.

DR 1122


Contd:- DR 1122 V1 – Introduction of Essential Plant into the Market Design

A new flag to be added to the Harmonised Data Definitions with the name Essential Plant Flag and schema name EssentialPlantFlag.

The Harmonised Data Definition for Essential Plant Flag is "As and where an MPRN is determined to be Essential Plant, or where Essential Plant flag has been removed, then this flag will be highlighted."

This flag will be a new Boolean Flag. value of 1 it will mean that there is essential plant at this MPRN value of 0 (exceptional) - there is not essential plant at this MPRN

This field is proposed to be populated only where it has been determined that there is essential plant at the MPRN.

The content of the flag will be made available on the Extranet and the downloadable meter point details file as well as certain messages that are indicated on the MCR

At Today’s Meeting: Classification as Harmonisation Impacting and Recommendation for

ApprovalDR 1122


DR 1097 V1.0 – New Order Status Code for Supplier timeout

To add a new Order Status code "SOTO" with the description of "Supplier Timeout" to be used where the Supplier has received market message 131[S] to re-schedule non-completed fieldwork and Supplier has not re-scheduled within 10 days.

At Today’s Meeting: Classification as Harmonisation Impacting

and recommendation for Approval DR 1097


Previously Approved MCRs for Withdrawal


MCR 78 V2.0 ROI Add Validation to Use of Company Registered Number

Classification as Harmonisation ImpactingRecommendation for Withdrawal

MCR 174 V3.0 ROI Allow incomplete set of reads for multiple meters to beaccepted by ESBN

Classification as Harmonisation ImpactingRecommendation for Withdrawal

Details MCRs Presented at HWG of 23/05/12 and held over for review

At Today’s Meeting: Approval is now being sought to withdraw these MCRs from the Active List.

MCR 174

MCR 78


HWG Action Items

Open Items as at end of last meeting

No. Assigned to Description Date Raised Date Due

060 CER/NIAURConfirm single Supplier-side TIBCO instance and single Market Hub for the Harmonised Market 12/12/2011 11/01/2012

085 NIE DR1106 - consider Supplier issues and re-present when ready 12/12/2011 -

086 HSGProvide early sight of updated TORs for HSG and HWG before sign-off 12/12/2011 -

088 SUPPLIERSConfirm acceptance of proposal to withdraw MCR78 and MCR174. 23/05/2012 27/06/2012


HWG Meeting

AOB


Next Steps

Next HWG meeting

8th August, 2012 (Belfast)

Dates for all meetings for 2012 are on the Calendar on the RMDS website


Thank You

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