The existing industry design provides a value known as “estimated consumption” within the 320MM which issues following the completion of a COS. The value is importantly used to provide an annual estimate consumption for the site which has come onto…
Read MoreA new Working Practice has been created to set out the steps which a Supplier must complete in circumstances where supplier initiated transfer of MPRNs from one Supplier ID to another is proposed. The Working Practice sets out a four…
Read MoreThe customers’ right to the cooling off period is detailed in Directive 2011/83/EU, which was transposed into Irish legislations through the Statutory Instrument S.I. No. 484 of 2013. It provides, inter alia, for the right of a customer to change…
Read MoreFollowing the briefing on a P1 SAFETY incident, it was identified that market documentation needed to be updated to reflect the as-is process that is currently in place to cater for meter and/or service removal as part of a de-energisation….
Read MoreCurrently the structure of the Small Supplier category does not facilitate the business model of a Supplier having a small number of sites but energy usage greater than 10MW power at peak demand. The proposal is to change the current…
Read MoreThree Market Change Requests were previously raised and approved to facilitate the introduction of Eircodes into the Retail Market. •MCR1140 -Introduction of Eircodes into the Retail Market •MCR0175 -New Reject Reason for Address Change Rejection •MCR1169 -Addition of Postal Code…
Read MoreAccurate technical contact address and technical contact details are required and would assist ESBN in completing supplier requests and obtaining accurate meter readings. Customer such as large banks or telecom companies with many distributed sites should provide accurate technical…
Read MoreCER’s Retail Market team asked ESB Networks in January 2015 to assess the impact of the ISEM on the Retail Market in Ireland. Whilst the SEM is to undergo a radical transformation arising from changes to European legislation designed to…
Read MoreRMDS became aware that Market System redundancy existed in relation to the Eligible Customer Files (ECF) and the Downloadable Meter Point Files (DF). RMDS undertook to analyse the possible redundancy. The objective of the analysis was to compare the two…
Read MoreThe Retail market participant Extranet contains a function called “Message Monitoring”. This enables Participants to identify all messages per MPRN (only MPRNs registered to the MP searching) per functional area. The process/functional areas are categorised as follows: Change of…
Read MoreWhen a 210 message is sent for customer read, the 300 message that is returned does not always reference the 210. The Suppliers Business Reference is not always included in the message. The 210 process is then left open on…
Read MoreIn June 2011 the Commission published a proposed Decision, CER/11/106 – Customer Bad Debt in Electricity & Gas Markets, on the issue of Customer Bad Debt. CER approved the implementation of a debt flagging facility into the Change of Supplier…
Read MoreThis change request is for the addition, in ROI, of Postal Codes into two Downloadable Meter Point Details Files. Two Downloadable Meter Point Details Files will be amended to include Postal Codes. There are five files in the suite of…
Read MoreThis change request concerns the design for the introduction of Eircodes into the Retail Market in Ireland. Implementation timelines will be separately agreed, as normal. In 2015, Ireland will implement a postcode system called Eircode (see the Eircode Website https://www.eircode.ie)….
Read MoreThe CER, working closely with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR), established the National Smart Metering Programme (NSMP) in late 2007. In Phase 1, a trial was carried out in order to assess the costs and benefits…
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