Events

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.