Background Increasing levels of competition in the electricity market have given rise to demands from suppliers for access to the Meter Point registration database on the Extranet in a downloadable, regularly refreshed format for use in in-house systems and processes….
Read MoreThere is a requirement that the functionality of the Retail Market that sets positive Supplier Units to zero, along with any associated out-of-market registration checks and information messaging, be turned off. This will enable positive values to be displayed in…
Read MoreBackground CER /08/070 (Public Lighting and Unmetered Supplies – April 2008) , outlines the separation of Public Lighting Assets from ESB’s networks to facilitate third party access to work on public lighting mounted on ESB networks. In addition to the…
Read MoreCurrently, TUOS billing by EirGrid involves practices that are heavily manual and therefore would benefit from more automation to improve efficiencies and conserve resources. Specifically, EirGrid require the data from the existing 342 market message for the billing of TUoS…
Read MoreBackground ESB Networks provides meter readings to electricity suppliers for the RoI retail electricity market. For non-quarter hourly non-maximum demand meter points, actual or estimated readings are provided 6 times a year for each meter point. In cases where access…
Read MoreBackground CER produced a directive in December 2005 which required electricity and gas providers to safeguard the provision of supply where a customer was deemed vulnerable (vulnerable customer being defined by CER as those reliant on electrical life support equipment,…
Read More1. BACKGROUND The DR which initiated this MCR was originally designed in 2006. Since the first design, various system changes have taken place – the most significant change being the implementation of the mobile solution. These changes made it necessary to…
Read MoreBackground: Market Participants requested the provision of a web service whereby a supplier could send out a procedural call to the ESB Networks MP Extranet website using an MPRN and pull back all of the data fields on the existing…
Read MoreCurrently when a QH meter is removed from a site undergoing de-energisation, no market message is sent notifying the supplier of the removal. Message 106D is currently sent to Suppliers (but not TSO) notifying of de-energisation but no message is…
Read MoreNotification of de-energisation of QH meter sites is not currently being sent to EirGrid which results in the site being incorrectly assigned as terminated. To ensure a site is de-energised, EirGrid requires receipt of the 106D message to the TSO…
Read MoreIt has been proposed to add the meter multiplier to the extranet. After examination of the data structure it is suggested that the meter multiplier be added to the register level data on the MPRN search page. It will appear…
Read MoreThis Discussion Request has been raised to discuss increasing the tolerance levels for NQH meter reading validation Detail: Currently, the NQH Data Collection team manually handle several hundred meter readings a day that have been outsorted, because the indicated register…
Read MoreBackground In April 2005 the Commission published a consultation document (CER/05/072) on the role and appointment of a Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) in the Irish market. Later, in December 2005, the Commission issued a proposed Decision (CER/05/238) on this…
Read MoreBackground: DR122 DR 154 is closely linked with the requirement in DR 122 to remove the requirement for a signed connection agreement in the case of a change of supplier with no CoLE. This requirement was required by CER decision…
Read MoreBackground At the March 13th 2008 Conference Call, participants agreed to the creation a new market message which would contain the Export data that is currently carried on the 341 market message (Channels 52 EXP QH (kW) and 53 EXP…
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