Ad Hoc Events

Volker Beckers, Industry Non-Executive Director at Elexon and Chairman of Cornwall Insight is the after dinner speaker at the conference and is talking about “Imagination and Reality” in the energy industry.

Nicholas Rubin, Market Architect at Elexon, is a guest speaker at the conference and is discussing “Unlocking the benefits to end consumers”.

Ofgem are running a Settlement Reform workshop on 1 October 2018 and is inviting stakeholders to attend. Ofgem will present and discuss the emerging findings from its consultation on access to half-hourly data for Settlement purposes.

We are carrying out maintenance on BSC Central Systems from 23:00 (BST) 6 October 2018 to 05:00 (BST) 7 October 2018. This could result in temporary issues with connectivity.

We are carrying out IT system maintenance  between 12:00 (BST) and 16:00 (BST) on Thursday 11 October 2018. This is an Elexon IT systems outage and will not affect the BSC Central Systems.

UK time changes on Sunday 28 October will result in a ‘long’ day where there are 50 Settlement Periods instead of the standard 48.

During the period of planned downtime, the BMRS will not load or publish data via the website, APIs and Data Push Service.

In addition, users of the TIBCO service will not receive any TIBCO messages via their High Grade Communications Lines and European Transparency Regulation (ETR) data will not be sent to ENTSO-E Transparency Platform...

National Grid will be upgrading their systems between 09:00 and 14:00 on 8 November. During this time, Market Participants may experience connectivity issues with Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) which may affect Gate Closure Data (PN and BOD) submissions.

We have a provisional planned downtime affecting BSC Central Systems for the week commencing 12 November 2018. The date and time has yet to be confirmed.

Specific information will be published in a circular at least a week before the planned downtime takes place.

National Grid has informed us that there may be a short period of downtime on Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) on Tuesday 13 November 2018 between 10:00 – 12:00 (GMT).

Users will still be able to submit data via SFTP to MODIS during the downtime and this data will be processed normally during the...

There will be a planned outage of the Market Index Data Provider (MIDP) on Tuesday 13 November 2018 between 18:40 and 21:30 (GMT).

The Market Index Data used to calculate the Market Index Price (MIP) will not be provided to BSC Central Services by this MIDP during this outage.

The MIP is expected to default to...

There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 01:57 (GMT) to 09:15 (GMT) on Wednesday 14 November 2018.

This is the first of two BSC Agent downtimes required for the technology upgrade of the BSC Central Systems applications including: Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS); Energy Contract Volume...

An infrastructure upgrade will take place on National Grid systems between 09:00 (GMT) and 14:00 (GMT) on Thursday 15 November.

During this time, Market Participants may experience connectivity issues with Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) which may affect Gate Closure Data (PN and BOD) submissions.

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)  

Agenda 

1. Introduction
2. Update on Settlement Risks and PAF Review
3. HH Settlement Performance for MC C, E, F and G
4. Issue 73 and Comms Fault Resolution

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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

• Joanna Whittington, Director General, Energy & Security, BEIS
• Mary Starks, Executive Director, Consumers & Markets, Ofgem

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.

Agenda

The day will provide information on:

• The TAM technique;

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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.

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...

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.

The speaker

• Jonathan Brearley, CEO Ofgem

Agenda 14:00...

The webinar will walk through the newly published 2021/22 business plan and give you the chance to ask any questions you may have.

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...

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...

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 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.

Ofgem stakeholder event on governance, funding and operation of ‘event-driven architecture’ for Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement.

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.

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 will be hosting Settlement Workshops aiming to improve settlement performance.

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 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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