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Category: MCR Pre-harmonisation approved


MCR 0179 – Downloadable Meter Point Details File

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….

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MCR 0178 – Treatment of Supplier Unit excess of Generation over Demand

There 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…

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MCR 0177 – DG4 DUoS Tariff for Local Authority Public Lighting

Background 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…

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MCR 0180 – Sending of additional messages to EirGrid-TSO

Currently, 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…

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MCR 0165 – Recalculation of Consumption Estimates

Background 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…

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MCR 0169 – Addition of Vulnerable Customer data deletion flag on 102

 Background 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,…

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MCR 0171 – Proposal to add Acceptance completion and cancellation messages to Meter Works design

1. 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…

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MCR 0170 – New web service containing MPRN data currently displayed on the MP Extranet

Background: 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…

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MCR 0168 – Addition of 331MM to notify of QH meter removal during QH de-energisation with meter removal process

Currently 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…

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MCR 0167 – Delivery of 106D message to TSO

Notification 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…

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MCR 0164 – Including the meter Multiplier on extranet

It 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…

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MCR 0163 – Increase in tolerance levels for NQH Meter Reading validation

This 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…

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MCR 0162 – Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR)

Background 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…

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MCR 0161 – Increasing the threshold for connection agreement return

Background: 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…

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MCR 0154 – Versioning of 341 messages

Background 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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