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6 January 2025
How can I monitor my Credit Cover Percentage?
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How is the CAP value set?
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How does a change of CAP affect me?
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Where can I find CAP data?
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What is CAP and how is it used?
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How will Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR) impact Credit Cover Percentage?
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Will System Prices reach £3,000/MWh if Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR) is used?
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How does Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR) affect Settlement?
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Where can I find Unmetered Supplies (UMS) Charge Codes?
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What are Category 1 Configurable Items?
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How do I apply for approval of my Central Management System (CMS)?
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What is an UMSUG Code?
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Where can I get Profile data?
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Who should we nominate as our initial Category A Authorised Signatory?
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Do I need to pay for Authorised Signatories?
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Can I change my own Party ID?
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How do I submit BSC Party operational contact details?
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What are the Approved weather stations?
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What data is used in Profiling?
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How are Profile Classes allocated?
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What are the Profile Classes?
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What is a Load Profile?
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What is the Performance Assurance Framework?
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What is a TAA Annual Report?
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What happens after the Metering site visit?
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I’m expecting a Metering site visit, what do I need to know?
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What is the Technical Assurance of Metering service?
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Why do we have Technical Assurance of Metering Systems?
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What is Technical Assurance of Metering Systems?
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What is a Trading Unit?
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What are the Aggregation Rules?
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What is the Metering Dispensation Review Group (MDRG)?
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What are Generic Metering Dispensations?
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What are Metering Dispensations?
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What is a Metering System?
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MDD Load Utility
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Market Domain Data
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How am I informed of changes to MDD?
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What is the MDD Release Schedule?
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How can I make a change to data in MDD?
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What is MDD?
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Where can I find Line Loss Factor Data?
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Where can I get more information on BM Units?
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What happens if I breach my GC/DC values?
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What could be the impact of re-declaring GC/DC?
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How do I declare GC/DC values?
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When is the deadline for submitting the next Season’s GC/DC values?
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When should I declare GC/DC values?
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What is the Transfer of Supplier ID process
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What is the Change of BM Unit Lead Party
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How do I transfer ownership of BM Units?
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How do I register BM Units?
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How are BM Units categorised?
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What is a BM Unit?
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What is the balancing mechanism?
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How does the SVA Removal of Qualification process start?
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What are the Serials used to calculate Supplier Charges?
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Who are Supplier Charges applied to?
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How are Supplier Charges calculated?
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What sort of Peer Comparison do we provide?
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When is data submitted?
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What are the performance measures?
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Who’s involved in Performance Monitoring and Reporting?
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What are the big issues in Material Error Monitoring at the moment?
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How does the Material Error Monitoring process work?
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Why is Material Error Monitoring used?
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How does the EFR process work?
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Who’s involved in EFR?
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What is EFR?
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What is the Bulk Change of Non Half Hourly Agent process?
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When do you use the [Bulk Change of Non Half Hourly Agent] process?
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What happens during the Audit?
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I’m about to be Audited – what do I need to know?
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What does a ‘Qualified’ BSC Audit Opinion mean?
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What happens after the Audit?
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How can I remove someone’s authorisation?
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How often can I change and update our authorised people?
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How can I check who is authorised for our company?
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Which are the different categories of authorisation in BSCP38?
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All the Category A Authorised People have left our company. How do we create new ones?
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I am an Authorised Person but have forgotten my password, can this be reissued?
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Why do we need to register Authorised Persons?
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What is the Participant Test Service (PTS) and how much does it cost?
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How do I access the ECVAA Web Service (EWS)?
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Can High Grade lines be installed outside of the UK mainland?
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Do I need Tibco Software to be able to use the High Grade service?
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What are the Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) associated with the High Grade service?
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Are there any costs associated with the Low Grade and High Grade services?
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I currently use the Low Grade Service but want to order a High Grade service. How can I do this?
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Do I need to lodge collateral (credit cover) with Elexon?
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What is the difference between a Market Participant Identifier (MPID) and a Party ID?
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Can more than one BSC Party use the same High Grade line?
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Do I need to create my own Party ID or is one allocated to me?
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How do I trade across the Interconnectors?
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I only want to become an Energy Contract Volume Notification Agent (ECVNA) or Metered Volume Reallocation Notification Agent (MVRNA). Do I have to sign the BSC?
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What are the costs associated with being a BSC Party?
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How long does the market entry process take?
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How do I claim expenses?
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What am I entitled to claim for?
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What is the Q8 Committee?
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BSC Panel Elections
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The BSC – Simple Guides
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Trading & Settlement
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History of the BSC
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What is the BSC?
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What is Credit Assessment Load Factor (CALF)?
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Where can I find details of wholesale prices of electricity in Great Britain?
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What are MPANs and MSIDs?
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How do interconnectors work?
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Can I use data from BMReports, the Elexon Portal, or Elexon.co.uk?
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What is the Elexon Portal?
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What is BMReports.com?
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When is a BSC Party in Default of the BSC?
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What is a BSC Party?
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How are the System Sell Price and the System Buy Price calculated?
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What is the System Sell Price and the System Buy Price?
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What is the imbalance settlement process?
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What are bids and offers?
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What are the consequences of Credit Default?
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When does a Credit Default occur?
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What is Credit Default?
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What are the Credit rules under the BSC?
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