For the latest information on the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) please go to the BSC website
There will be two periods of planned downtime impacting the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 17:15 to 22:15 on 21 November 2018 and again from 03:15 to 08:15 on 22 November 2018.
During the outage, the National Grid applications which includes Balancing Mechanism (BM) and Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS), will be...
Planned downtime for BSC Central Systems on 27 and 28 November 2018 has been confirmed. It will take place from 20:57 (GMT) on Tuesday 27 November to 09:15 (GMT) on Wednesday 28 November 2018. It will impact on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS); Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA); Settlement Administration Agent (SAA); Supplier Volume...
There will be some planned downtime impacting the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service from 12:30 to 13:30 on Monday 10 December 2018. All data normally received from National Grid applications will not be updated via the BMRS Website, APIs, Data Push Service and TIBCO.
This event will cover the TERRE process to give you the information you need to help prepare to participate in the market once TERRE is implemented.
We have been notified by National Grid that there will be a Balancing Mechanism (BM) planned outage between 10:10 to 13:40 (GMT) on Tuesday 11 December 2018.
This event will cover the TERRE process to give you the information you need to help prepare to participate in the market once TERRE is implemented.
We are hosting a webinar at 10:30 on Tuesday 15 January 2019 where we will talk through the Business Plan in more detail. You will also have an opportunity to ask us questions on any aspect of it. Register now if you’d like to attend.
Elexon is hosting an event in partnership with the Women’s Utilities Network, an independent networking group to provide mentoring and networking opportunities. The event will focus on The Power of Personal Branding and Angela Love, Elexon’s Director of Strategy and Communications, is the keynote speaker.
Angela Love, Director of Strategy and Communications at Elexon, is speaking at a BEIS/Ofgem workshop on the Energy Codes Review today. She will share our views and suggestions to address the issues arising from code and central systems fragmentation.
The aim of this stakeholder event is to inform interested parties about the settlement design work undertaken to date, as well as introduce the TOM and discuss the development of a transitional approach.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the February meeting, at 12:30 on Monday 11 February 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
We are hosting a webinar on 12 February at 11:00am to help participants respond to the Risk Operating Plan (ROP) 2019/20 consultation. You will also have an opportunity to ask us questions on any aspect of it.
Please register here if you would like to attend the webinar.
Angela Love, Director of Strategy and Communications at Elexon, is speaking at a BEIS/Ofgem workshop on the Energy Codes Review today. She will share our views and suggestions to address the issues arising from code and central systems fragmentation.
Alina Bakhareva and Kevin Spencer from Elexon are speaking at the Smarter Energy Insights Forum. Alina will be presenting about the Energy Code Review and Kevin about Half-Hourly Settlement.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the March meeting, at 12:30 on Monday 11 March 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
Angela Love will be speaking about her career experiences as part of a presentation to the RWE Generation UK Networking Steering Committee.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 17:00 (GMT) to 23:59 (GMT) on Wednesday 27 March 2019.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the April meeting, at 12:30 on Monday 8 April 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
IT system maintenance will take place between 12:00 (BST) and 16:00 (BST) on Thursday 11 April 2019. This is an Elexon IT systems outage and will not affect the BSC Central Systems.
National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be an infrastructure upgrade on their systems between 09:40 and 13:05 (BST) on Thursday 2 May 2019.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the May meeting, at 12:30 on Tuesday 7 May 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
There will be a short outage on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) between 17:00 (BST) to 17:30 (BST) on Wednesday 5 June 2019. During the downtime, the BMRS website, API, Data Push and TIBCO service will not be available. The TIBCO Service will be stopped before the outage and will resume shortly after completion.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the April meeting, at 12:30 on Monday 10 June 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
The aim of this Stakeholder event is to inform parties of the Settlement Risks associated with HH Settlement, further Party understanding of issues and Elective Half-Hourly Settlement (EHHS)
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We will be carrying out maintenance on BSC Central Systems from 23:00 (BST) 15 June 2019 to 05:00 (BST) 16 June 2019. This could result in temporary issues with connectivity.
National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) has informed us that there will be an urgent planned outage
between 11:00 (BST) and 14:00 (BST) on Wednesday 19 June 2019.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 17:00 (BST) to 18:00 (BST) on Wednesday 26 June 2019.
There will be a period of planned downtime impacting the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 18:00 (BST) 4 July 2019 to 04:00 (BST) 5 July 2019.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the July meeting, at 12:30 on Monday 8 July 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
Our Annual BSC Meeting and Seminar is a unique opportunity to hear direct from two exceptional keynote speakers who will be discussing the latest key topics and challenges facing the industry.
The speakers
The Code Administration Code of Practice (CACoP) sets out principles for the administrators of the industry codes that underpin the electricity and gas wholesale and retail markets.
It is designed to facilitate convergence and transparency in code modification processes and help protect the interests of small market participants and consumers.
The topics for discussion at this event...
During the outage, Elexon may receive the TIBCO messages intermittently; as a result the indicative Best View Prices may deviate more from final prices than usual from 12:00 until 16:00 on Thursday 18 July 2019.
There will be a period of planned downtime impacting the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 18:00 (BST) 23 July 2019 to 04:00 (BST) 24 July 2019.
We will be carrying out planned maintenance on the Elexon Portal from 18:00 (BST) to 20:00 (BST) on Thursday 1 August 2019.
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the August meeting, at 12:30 on Monday 5 August 2019. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda, to help you gain a better understanding of the agenda and answer any questions you may have.
There will be a period of planned downtime impacting the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 18:00 (BST) on 6 August 2019 to 04:00 (BST) on 7 August 2019. During the outage, the communications between BMRS and National Grid ESO applications which includes Balancing Mechanism (BM) and Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS), will be...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 17:57 (BST) to 21:45 (BST) on 3 September 2019. The outage is required for essential maintenance to the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA), Funds Administration Agent (FAA), Settlement Administration Agent (SAA), Central Data Collection Agent (CDCA) and Central Registration...
There will be a Balancing Mechanism planned outage between 10:10 and 14:40 on 5 September 2019 to accommodate updates required for NEMO and Elec-Link Interconnectors. The BM outage will impact most of the data published on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service.
Elexon is hosting an education day on Wednesday 11 September 2019 to outline changes that will be coming to the Technical Assurance of Metering (TAM) audit in September 2019 and to introduce a new Desktop Audit process that will be implemented in April 2020.
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Planned Elexon IT systems outage between 09:00 (BST) and 17:00 (BST) on 10 September 2019. This is an Elexon IT systems outage and will not affect the BSC Central Systems.
An Elexon IT system outage will take place from 18:00 (BST) on Friday 13 September to 19:00 (BST) on Sunday 15 September. The outage will take place outside of working hours so there should be minimal impact on BSC Parties.
There will be a BM outage on 26 September 2019 between 10:10 (BST) and 14:40 (BST). The outage is required to accommodate updates required for the NEMO and Elec-Link Interconnectors. This BM outage was orginally planned for 19 September 2019.
We have been notified by National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) that there will be a planned outage affecting Non-BM STOR dispatch. During this time the current Non-BM STOR dispatch platform will be migrated to the new Ancillary Services Dispatch Platform (ASDP).
This is an Elexon IT systems outage and will not affect the BSC Central Systems. The outage is due to necessary maintenance on Elexon’s internal infrastructure.
We have been notified by National Grid Electricity System Operator (NG ESO) that there will be a Balancing Mechanism (BM) planned maintenance outage between 10:10 (BST) and 14:40 (BST) on Thursday 24 October 2019.
UK time changes on Sunday 27 October 2019 from British Summer Time (BST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at 02:00 (BST). This will result in a ‘long’ day as the clocks go back an hour.
P392 ‘Amending BSC Change Process for EBGL Article 18’ will ensure the process and responsibilities for amending BSC provisions constituting EBGL Article 18 terms and conditions reflect delegations made by NGESO in favour of the BSCCo and BSC Panel, to ensure a unified market change process. These changes are necessary to ensure the EBGL...
IT system maintenance will take place between 10:00 (GMT) and 13:00 (GMT) on Saturday 16 November 2019. The outage is due to necessary maintenance on Elexon’s internal infrastructure.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that there will be a Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) planned maintenance outage between 01:00 (GMT) and 05:00 (GMT) on Saturday 23 November 2019.
We will be carrying out maintenance on the infrastructure that hosts the BSC Central Systems from 23:00 (GMT) on 23 November 2019 to 05:00 (GMT) on 24 November 2019. This could result in temporary issues with connectivity.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) in order to implement the December 2019 Standalone BSC Release.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that there will be a Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) planned maintenance outage.
Elexon is hosting an education day on Tuesday 4 February 2020 to outline the new Desktop Audit process that will be implemented in April 2020. We will also be providing a dedicated agenda item for the Licenced Distribution System Operator (LDSO) role within the TAM technique.
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If you are involved in the TAM technique...
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that there will be a Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) planned maintenance outage between 11:00 and 14:00 (GMT) on Wednesday 5 February 2020.
The planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 19:00 (GMT) to 21:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 11 February 2020, has now been cancelled.
National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be a Balancing Mechanism (BM) planned maintenance outage between 10:10 to 14:40 (GMT) on Thursday 13 February 2020.
Further to Elexon Circular EL03107 the planned maintenance outage on Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) between 18:00 and 20:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 18 February 2020, has now been cancelled.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that there will be a Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) planned maintenance outage between 18:00 (GMT) and 20:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 3 March 2020.
Elexon is hosting a Performance Assurance day to offer BSC Parties the opportunity to find out more about how Elexon fulfils its role as the Performance Assurance Administrator.
This will be an interactive day, ideal for those involved in working with Elexon within Performance Assurance and risk activities and processes. Topics covered on the day...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 19:00 (GMT) to 21:00 (GMT) on Thursday 5 March 2020, for infrastructure maintenance for BMRS.
Further to Elexon Circular EL03133 the planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism (BM) from 10:10 to 15:40 (BST) on Thursday 23 April 2020, has now been cancelled.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that the planned Balancing Mechanism (BM) outage between 10:10 to 15:40 (BST) on Thursday 23 April 2020 has been postponed; the outage will now take place between 10:10 to 15:40 (BST) on Thursday 30 April 2020. National Grid ESO currently has a back-up date planned for Wednesday...
This downtime is required to perform essential maintenance of the BSC Central Systems which will result in intermittent service on the BMRS and ECVAA.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) will be carrying out a planned IT maintenance.
A period of downtime on the BMRS will take place between 18:57 to 02:00 (BST) today, 28 May 2020.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) will be carrying out a planned IT maintenance between 02:10 to 03:10 (BST) on Sunday 31 May. The outage will impact data sent to BMRS.
National Grid ESO have informed us that there will be a planned outage on its Information Provision (IP) system between 11:30 and 12:35 (BST) on 12 June 2020.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that the planned outage on its servers between 11:00 and 13:00 (BST) on 16 June 2020 has been postponed.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that the planned outage on its servers between 11:00 and 13:00 (BST) on 16 June 2020 was postponed. The outage will now take place between 11:00 and 13:00 (BST) on 17 June 2020.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that there will be a planned maintenance outage impacting European Transparency Regulation (ETR) & REMIT data submissions via the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) between 01:00 and 05:00 (BST) on Saturday 20 March 2020.
We will be carrying out maintenance on the infrastructure which hosts the BSC Central Systems from 20:00 (BST) 21 June 2020 to 02:00 22 June 2020.
National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Ancillary Services Dispatch Platform (ASDP) and Information Provision (IP) systems between 00:00 and 1:30 (BST) on 25 June 2020
Further to Elexon Circular EL03172, the outage which was planned on the BSC Central Systems applications 08:57 (BST) to 21:15 (BST) on Saturday 18 July 2020, has now been postponed.
National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Ancillary Services Dispatch Platform (ASDP) and Information Provision (IP) systems between 11:00 and 15:00 (BST) on 4 August 2020.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO that there will be a Balancing Mechanism (BM) planned maintenance outage between 10:10 to 14:40 (BST) on Thursday 6 August 2020. National Grid ESO currently has a back-up date planned for Thursday 13 August 2020 with the same time frame.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) have informed us that there will be a planned maintenance outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) Wednesday 12 August 2020 between 20:30 and 23:00 (BST).
National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Ancillary Services Dispatch Platform (ASDP) and Information Provision (IP) systems between 13:35 and 15:40 (BST) today, Tuesday 1 September 2020.
This year the meeting our Annual BSC meeting and seminar will take place virtually giving you a unique opportunity to hear from Jonathan Brearley, CEO of Ofgem and our own industry experts who will be discussing the latest key topics and challenges facing the industry.
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A planned power outage will take place between 18:00 (BST) Friday 18 September and 19:00 (BST) Sunday 20 September 2020. Please note these times are approximate and the length of the outage will be dependent on the maintenance work required.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) have informed us that there will be a planned maintenance outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) on Saturday 26 September 2020 between 11:00 and 17:00 (BST).
There will be a planned outage on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 18:57 (BST) on Wednesday 30 September to 08:00 (BST) Thursday 1 October 2020.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) have informed us that there will be a planned maintenance outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) on Saturday 3 October 2020 between 11:00 and 17:00 (BST).
National Grid ESO have informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Information Provision (IP) between 18:00 and 19:30 on 18 November 2020.
National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be a planned Balancing Mechanism (BM) implementation outage from 10:10 to 15:40 (GMT) on Thursday 19 November (backup date Tuesday 24 November).
National Grid ESO have informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Information Provision (IP) between 01:00 (GMT) and 05:00 (GMT) on 21 November 2020.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) have informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) between 12:45 and 18:45 (GMT) today, Monday 23 November 2020 to carry out Disaster Recovery testing. It will then be followed up by a switch back outage...
The outage on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) has now been successfully completed. The BMRS is now running with the implemented changes from the December 2020 Standalone Release. The BMRS has now fully processed the backlog of data.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) have informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) Thursday 3 December 2020 between 09:30 to and 15:00 (GMT).
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 18:57 (GMT) to 22:15 (GMT) on Thursday 3 December 2020.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) on Wednesday 16 December 2020 between 11:40 (GMT) to 13:40 (GMT).
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) on Friday 18 December between 11:40 (GMT) to 13:40 (GMT).
The webinar will walk through the newly published 2021/22 business plan and give you the chance to ask any questions you may have.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) today, Tuesday 19 January 2021, between 10:15 to 10:40 (GMT).
The planned outage on the National Grid ESO (NGESO) application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) today, Tuesday 9 February 2021, between 10:10 to 11:10 (GMT) has now been cancelled.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Wednesday 10 February 2021, between 11:20 to 14:50 (GMT).
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Tuesday 16 February 2021, between 14:10 to 15:10 (GMT).
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Tuesday 2 March 2021, between 11:10 to 12:40 (GMT).
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution from 18:30 to 19:00 (GMT) on Thursday 11 March 2021; this is required for infrastructure maintenance.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be an Energy Forecasting System (EFS) planned outage between 15:50 and 22:00 (GMT) on Saturday 13 March 2021.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 18:10 (GMT) to 19:10 (GMT) on Monday 15 March 2021; this is required for infrastructure maintenance for BMRS.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), on Tuesday 16 March 2021, between 10:20 and 13:00 (GMT).
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 17:00 (GMT) to Thursday 25 March 2021 at 05:00 (GMT).
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 17:30 (GMT) to 20:30 (GMT) on Wednesday 24 March 2021.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned Balancing Mechanism (BM) outage between 10:10 to 15:40 (BST) on Tuesday 30 March 2021.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), on Thursday 1 April 2021 between 02:40 (BST) and 03:10 (BST).
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 17:45 (BST) to 18:45 (BST) on Thursday 8 April 2021.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) have informed us that there will be a planned outage on the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) between 13:00 and 15:00 (BST) on Tuesday 20 April 2021.
MODIS sends Loss of Load Probability (LoLP), De-rated Margin (DRM), REMIT and European Transparency Regulation (ETR) data from National Grid to the Balancing...
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Thursday 22 April 2021 between 10:20 (BST) and 13:00 (BST).
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), on Wednesday 28 April 2021 between 10:20 (BST) and 15:35 (BST).
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 18:00 (BST) to 21:00 (BST) on Thursday 6 May 2021; this is required for infrastructure maintenance.
The planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications is from 18:57 (BST) Friday 14 May 2021 to 07:15 (BST) on Saturday 15 May 2021. This outage is required for infrastructure maintenance on the BSC Central Systems applications including the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA), Settlement Administration Agent (SAA),...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 18:00 (BST) to 19:00 (BST) on Thursday 27 May 2021. This is required for infrastructure maintenance.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be an Energy Forecasting System (EFS) planned outage between 15:50 and 22:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 15 June 2021.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Wednesday 16 June 2021 between 11:30 (BST) and 14:00 (BST).
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be an Energy Forecasting System (EFS) planned outage between 15:50 and 22:00 (GMT) on Thursday 17 June 2021.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) on Wednesday 23 June between 20:00 (BST) and 23:00 (BST); this is required for infrastructure maintenance. The outage also affects users of the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA) Web Service.
There is a period of planned downtime which will impact the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution application on Thursday 24 June 2021 from 17:30 (BST) to 19:00 (BST). The downtime is necessary to deploy new functionality.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) about a planned Balancing Mechanism (BM) outage between 10:10 to 15:40 (BST) on Thursday 8 July 2021.
Our Annual BSC Meeting and Seminar will take place virtually. Hear from Fintan Slye, Director National Grid ESO, Dermot Nolan, former CEO of Ofgem and a pre-recorded message from The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change. Elexon’s senior leadership team will give an overview of our performance over...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) on Wednesday 14 July between 20:00 (BST) and 23:00 (BST); this is required for infrastructure maintenance. The outage also affects users of the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA) Web Service.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 17:30 (BST) to 19:00 (BST) on Thursday 29 July 2021.
The Technical Assurance Agent (TAA) will be hosting a demonstration of the new upgraded TAAMT system, used for the administration of the Technical Assurance of Metering (TAM) audits. Elexon and the TAA will walk through the new system and also give TAAMT users an opportunity to ask questions.
For the avoidance of doubt, this demonstration...
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the August meeting. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda to help you gain a better understanding and answer any questions you may have.
We have been informed by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be a planned outage on the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) between 01:00 and 05:00 (BST) on Saturday 21 August 2021.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 19:00 (BST) to 00:00 (BST) on Thursday 9 September 2021. This is required for infrastructure maintenance.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) are holding a stakeholder workshop on 8 November 2021 from 13:00 to 16:00. The workshop is seeking industry views on the C16 Statements review process.
We are running a webinar on 7 December to help explain Modification P375: Settlement of Secondary BM Units using metering behind the site Boundary Point.
Planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 14:30 to 15:30 on Wednesday 5 January 2022.
Planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 17:45 to 18:45 Thursday on 13 January 2022.
We are hosting a webinar about our 2022/23 business plan this Friday (14 January) from 15:30 to 16:30, where our executive team will present, and explain our budget for 2022/23. This will be followed by a question and answer session.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA) application from 18:40 (GMT) to 21:40 (GMT) on 19 January 2022. This downtime is required for essential maintenance.
Ofgem stakeholder event on governance, funding and operation of ‘event-driven architecture’ for Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement.
We issued Elexon Circular EL03618 yesterday informing you of a delay to the June 2022 Release deployment. We now plan to deploy the changes between 17:30 (BST) on Tuesday 5 July 2022 and 02:00 (BST) on Wednesday 6 July 2022. There will be a period of downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application and...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 22:27 (BST) on Saturday 9 July 2022 to 07:45 (BST) on Sunday 10 July 2022.
Our annual BSC meeting and seminar will take place on 14 July 2022 from 14:00 to 16:00. You will be able to join us in person for the event, at our London office, or via video conference if you prefer.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 19:00 (BST) to 23:00 (BST) on Wednesday 3 August 2022. This is required for infrastructure maintenance.
UK time changes on Sunday 27 October 2024 from British Summer Time (BST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at 02:00 (BST). This will result in a ‘long’ day as the clocks go back an hour.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 22:27 (GMT) 27 January 2023 to 06:45 (GMT) on 28 January 2023.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned maintenance outage on the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) application between 01:00 and 05:00 (GMT) on 25 February.
Elexon will be hosting an education day for the Technical Assurance of Metering (TAM) Technique on Tuesday 4 April 2023 at 10:00. This event will be in preparation for the Technical Assurance Agent (TAA) Audit for the Audit year 2023/2024. This event will cover the purpose of the TAM Technique, Audit processes, non-compliances and understanding of...
We are delighted to invite you to our Annual BSC Meeting and Seminar at the Elexon offices on...
Elexon’s Metering Team is running a webinar where Siemens Energy will give a presentation on a new type of technology that has the potential to be used within Settlement Metering Systems, Low Power Instrument Transformers (LPITs).
Elexon will implement Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Modification P395 ‘Aligning BSC Reporting with EMR Regulations – an enduring solution’ on 2 November as part of the November 2023 BSC Release.
We are hosting a webinar on 21 September 2023 to explain the changes.
UK time changes on Sunday 31 March 2024 from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to British Summer Time (BST) at 01:00 (GMT). This will result in a ‘short’ day as the clocks go forward an hour.
Elexon is hosting a webinar on 9 May, from 14:00 to 15:00 to explain the new Insights Solution data service to users. We will also answer any questions that users have about the new service and the switch off of BMRS (the legacy service that the Insights Solution is replacing.
Elexon will be hosting Settlement Workshops aiming to improve settlement performance.
In November 2024, Elexon will implement Modification P415, a ground-breaking change to the BSC which supports Net Zero by allowing V<span class="NormalTextRun...
Elexon will hold a webinar on Thursday 27 June to discuss P471: Amendment to BSC Section E to allow more flexibility in procurement of BSC Agents, and P472: Amendment to provisions for Parties to bring claims against BSC Agents in BSC Section E.
Elexon will be hosting Settlement Workshops aiming to improve settlement performance.
Elexon will be hosting an education day relating to the communication changes effecting metering and settlement.
Elexon is hosting Settlement Workshops this year aiming to improve settlement performance in all four market segments: Non Half Hourly (NHH) Export, Non Half Hourly (NHH) Imports, Half Hourly Sub 100Kw and Half Hourly Import Performance.
Our next workshop will take place on Wednesday 30 October at 10:00 in person at the Elexon offices (ELEXON,...
Elexon ran a webinar that highlighted the principles of Supplier Charges post Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement (MHHS) implementation. From that webinar we have also produced a list of FAQ which might be helpful.
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