Industry Governance Group - RMDS...MCR Version Description Status MCR1157 V4.0 Data Aggregation and Data Processing ... To facilitate checkpoint firewall management server upgrade

Industry Governance Group

16/01/2020

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Minutes from Previous IGG Meeting 13:30 – 13:35

Review of Action Items 13:35 – 13:55

CRU Update 13:55 – 14:15

De-harmonisation Update 14:15 – 14:25

Retail Market Design Service Update 14:25 – 14:45

MRSO Update 14:45 – 14:55

ESBN Networks Update 14:55 – 15:15

Gemserv Update 15:15 – 15:20

AOB 15:20 – 15:25

Next Steps 15:25 – 15:30

IGG Agenda


Minutes from previous IGG

For Approval Today:

• Minutes (v1.0) from Conference Call on 04.12.2019


IGG Actions

Updated IGG Action List issued in advance of meeting

• No Actions closed since last IGG meeting

• 5 IGG Actions carried forward


IGG Actions – Open

AP No. Title

Org.

Assigned to Date Due Date Raised

1122

Data Sharing Agreement - ESBN to revert with a position on a proposed Data

Sharing Agreement (Action 1118). ESBN 16/01/2020 05/12/2018

1129

Low Call Phone Numbers - CRU to contact Com Reg with regard to the

changes to the low call numbers (1890 etc.) which come into effect in 2022 CRU 16/01/2020 06/03/2019

1135

De-energisation Statistics – Supplier (BGE) to send the 2017 de-energisation

statistics to ESBN (via RMDS) with a view to getting the same made available

for 2018 Supplier 16/01/2020 02/10/2019

1136

Settlement Month +13 – MRSO to provide additional information on Settlement

Month +13 to MPs via RMDS MRSO 16/01/2020 06/11/2019

1137

Revenue Protection Workshop – RMDS to organise a Revenue Protection

Workshop for early 2020 on behalf of ESBN. RMDS 16/01/2020 04/12/2019

Industry Governance Group Meeting

6

16 January 2020

CRU Update


Lisa Fahy, CRU

De-harmonisation Update

Retail Market Design UpdateLindsay Sharpe, RMDS


Facilitate energy efficiencies in Local Authority Public Lighting

• The following Market Changes will be implemented in a single release, schema and non-

schema

v13.00.00 Release – Status

MCR Version Description Status

MCR1157 V4.0 Data Aggregation and Data Processing

MCR1158 V4.0 Customer Data

MCR1159 V4.0 Change of Supplier

MCR1160 V4.0 Meter Works

MCR1161 V2.0 New Connection

MCR1135 V6.0 MPRN Enquiry web service

MCR0176 V4.0 E-Mail Validation

<NI MCRs> <N/A> <No NI MCRs in agreed scope> <N/A>

Other (ROI Only) Comment Status

Smart Enablement • Technical Upgrades


Facilitate energy efficiencies in Local Authority Public Lighting

• Re-versioned MCR’s approved at Novembers IGG are all available on the RMDS website.

• Some further minor modifications are required to be made to the MCR’s

• The re-versioned documents will be communicated as per the timeline below:

MCR Re-Versioning

Re-versioned MCR’s

circulated to Market

Participants

Market Participant

Re-versioned MCR

Workshop

Re-issue Re-

versioned MCR’s

Post – Workshop

Re-Versioned MCR’s

Approval at IGG

16/03/20 30/03/20 13/04/20 29/04/20Week

Commencing

https://rmdservice.com/2018/08/09/v13-00-00-implementation-scope/


v13.00.00 Release – Plan

2019

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

IGG

Engagement

2020

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Design/Build/Test

Jan

2020

Go Live

(TBC)

Smart Enablement

Market Engagement

Other (ROI Only)

29th

May

26th

Jun

Market

Assurance

ROI Assurance

Approach

Published

ROI Approach

Approved By

IGGROI Participant

Questionnaire

Phase 2 Issued

IPT

Prep

IPT

Exec

IPT Window

(NI & ROI)

Go Live

(TBC)

Key

IGG (Meetings & Calls)

Key Milestone (Confirmed & Draft)

Go live

13th

Sep

24th

Jul

02nd

Oct

06th

Nov

04th

Dec

ROI Participant

Questionnaire

Phase 1 Issued

Publish Draft

Schema Sharing

Approach

Schema

Draft 1

Schema

Draft 2Schema

Draft 3

Schema

Draft 4

Schema

Draft 5

v.13.00.00

Schema

Final

Schema

Release

Web Service MCR1135 Excel File with

Field Names &

Reject Reason

Codes

Draft Metadata

XML Format &

Sample Json

Request

Final Metadata

XML Format &

Sample Json

Request

16th

Jan 5th

Feb4th

Mar1st

Apr

29th

Apr

27th

May24th

Jun

22nd

Jul

2nd

Sep

30th

Sep4th

Nov

2nd

Dec

Draft 1 Release

Sample Market

Msgs, Files &

Screenshots

Draft 2 Release

Sample Market

Msgs, Files &

Screenshots


• SoLR Review Exercise

• Continuing to progress.

Updates


• The following statistics for 2019 are now available on the RMDS Website on the

following link https://rmdservice.com/2019/01/07/rmds-statistics-2019/

• IGG Actions

• Change Requests

• New Entrants

• Outages

2019 Statistics

https://rmdservice.com/2019/01/07/rmds-statistics-2018/


2019 IGG Actions

1 carried forward from 2018

15 New Actions in

2019

10 Closed in 2019

15 New Actions

• 15 New Actions opened in 2019 – a drop of

25% since 2018 when 20 New actions were

logged

• 1 Action carried forward from 2018 (which is

still open)

• 10 actions closed during 2019

• 5 Actions open at year end 2019 (only logged

on 4th Dec 2019)


2019 Closed Actions – No. of weeks to close

• 54% of the Actions raised in 2019 were closed within 4 weeks

• 13% closed in 12 weeks

• 33% still open

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

4 w

eeks

12

wee

ks

Still

op

en

No

. of

Act

ion

s

No. of weeks


2017/2018/2019 - No. of new actions opened

70

2015

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

2017 2018 2019

No

. o

f A

cti

on

s

2017 2018 201925% decrease in New

Actions since 2018


New & Re-Versioned Change Requests 2019

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Non Schema(NI) Schema Re-Versioned Total

23

8

13


New and Re-Versioned Change Requests per Year

Approval of Market Change Requests Per YearNew & Re-versioned Change Requests per Year

0

5

10

15

2017 2018 2019 Average

8

13 1311.3

12

10

4.33

2017 2018 2019 AVERAGE

MCRs Implemented Per Year

8

1112

10.3

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14


New Market Participants 2019

1

2

1

2

1

1

0

1

2

3

Applications Effective In Process

New Market Activity 2019

Large Export Only Self Supplier


New Entrants 2016 - 2019

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Total Self Small Large DSU Export Only

New Entrants by Type 2016-2019

2016

2017

2018

2019


Requalifications 2016 - 2019

0

1

2

3

Total Small to Large Material Export Only toSmall

Export Only toLarge

Type of Requalification

Requalifications - 2016 - 2019

2016

2017

2018

2019


Assurance Completion/Effective in the Market

3 3

2

0

1

2

3

4

Applications Effective In Process

New Market Participants 2019


Market Participants at end of 2019

02468

10121416182022242628303234363840

Large Small Self -Supplier DSU Export Only

18

9

39

97

Total Market Participants


2019 Outages

5

1

2

1

2

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

TIBCO RMP EXTRANET

SAP OTHER (CLICK, MVRS,

FIREWALL, ETC.)

RELEASE EVENTS

2019 Planned/ Unplanned

Planned Unplanned

1

11

11

2019 - TOTAL PLANNED VS UNPLANNED

Planned

Unplanned

Postponed2019 Total Outages = 12

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2019 Outages

• 12 outages in total for 2019. This does not include one postponed outage in February.

• 58% of all outages in 2019 impacted both NI & RoI Markets at the same time.

• In November and December 2019 there were no outages.

• Outages were highest in April and June 2019 (2 each month).

17

1311

2

5

1

1

3

5

7

9

11

13

15

17

19

2017 2018 2019

3 Year Planned vs UnplannedPlanned Unplanned



2019 Outages

7

5

Number of outages that took place 3rd Sunday of Month

3rd Sunday Not 3rd Sunday



http://rmdservice.com/outages-2020/

Upcoming Outages for ROI

PLANNED OUTAGE NOTIFICATION Outage Type Planned Start Date of Outage Sunday 19th January 2020

Start Time of Outage 15:00 hrs

Date of Restoration of Outage Sunday 19th January 2020

Restoration Time of Outage 21:00 hrs

Duration of Outage 6 hrs Approximately

Jurisdiction Affected ROI & NI

Reason for Outage To facilitate checkpoint firewall management server upgrade.

TIBCO Market Messaging System MKT Systems Impacted

Backlog Impact / Comments Market Messages inbound and outbound will queue and be processed on resumption of normal service.

System undergoing Outage TIBCO HUB

http://rmdservice.com/outages-2016/

Thank You

MRSO Update James Long

16th January 2020

Gerry Halligan

esbnetworks.ie

Debt Flagging

Sept-19 Oct-19 Nov-19

Total Debt Notifications received (012) 320 (48) 375 (43) 268 (44)

Total Debt Notifications not forwarded for

reason implied or explicit CoLE, timeout, etc.127 (6) 157 (1) 135 (5)

Total Debt Notifications sent to gaining

supplier (112)193 (42) 218 (42) 133 (39)

Total not cancelled 149 (38) 179 (39) 111 (36)

Total cancelled 44 (4) 39 (3) 22 (3)

Total Debt Notifications sent to gaining

supplier as % of total COS0.6% 0.8% 0.5%

Figures in brackets represent situations where an ESB Networks PAYG meter

is installed.

esbnetworks.ie

Debt Flagging

Nov-18 Dec-18 Jan-19 Feb-19 Mar-19 Apr-19 May-19 Jun-19 Jul-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Oct-19 Nov-19

Total Debt Notifications received 221 162 180 184 268 311 379 355 252 307 320 375 268

Total Debt Notifications sent to gaining supplier 145 124 139 156 141 192 200 252 183 172 193 218 133

Total Cancelled 47 48 42 58 50 46 78 74 49 51 44 39 22

PAYG Debt Notifications sent to gaining supplier 23 23 29 31 26 37 36 32 36 28 42 42 39

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

Total Debt Notificationsreceived

Total Debt Notificationssent to gaining supplier

Total Cancelled

PAYG Debt Notificationssent to gaining supplier

esbnetworks.ie

Objections – Erroneous Transfer

Sept-19 Oct-19

No. of Objections 59 95

Cancellations from Objections 21 59

Objection emails to MRSO 6 6

Reasons:

Uncontactable by phone 1

Written communication 1

COS confirmed 4 4

Other 2

Escalation emails 5 4

Nov-19

86

31

12

2

1

8

1

8

esbnetworks.ie

Objections – Erroneous Transfer

73

67

78

73

63

80 80

62

66

94

72

87

92 92

82

57

72

59

73

51

58

68

59

95

86

0

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

No

. o

f C

oS

Co

mp

leti

on

s

No

. o

f O

bje

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s

No. of Objections

CoS Completions

Retail Market Assurance Services for the Irish Electricity Market

Sarah Fuller

Industry Governance Group (IGG)

Dublin

16 January 2020

New Entrants

▪ 1 Large Supplier entering new Market Segment▪ In planning stage

▪ 1 Export Only Supplier Re-qualification▪ In application stage

▪ 1 Small to Large Supplier Re-qualification▪ In planning stage

Gemserv 35

15

9

46

85

Large Supplier

Small Supplier

Self-Supplier

Demand Side Unit

Export Only Supplier

V13 Release

▪ Self-Assessment Phase 1 report delivered to CRU ▪ For decision on recommendations

▪ Anonymised report to be issued to the Market▪ Upon decision from CRU

▪ Feedback for all MPs on individual PQ submission▪ By end Jan 2020▪ Email & Call

▪ Self Assessment Phase 2▪ Due April 2020

Gemserv 36

Forward Work Plan

Gemserv 37

Jan 20 Feb 20 Mar 20

Small to Large

Re-

qualifications

New Segment

Suppliers

BSA ongoing, IPT Scheduled

Plannin

g

BSA Assurance Phase V13 Release

Self-Assessment Phase 1 reporting & actions

Self-

Assessment Phase 2 planning

Planning Stage Assurance Activities

Export Only Re-

qualificationsApplication Stage

Assurance Activities

Questions

Gemserv 38

Sarah Fuller

Assurance Contract Manager

[email protected]

+353 (0)1 669 4630

Elizabeth Montgomerie

Assurance Consultant

[email protected]

+44 (0)7703 740 282

Simon Fox-Mella

Assurance Consultant

[email protected]

+44 (0)20 7090 7744

Thank you


AOB

IGG Meeting


Next Steps

Diary dates for next meetings:

• IGG Conference Call – Wednesday 5th February 2020

• IGG Meeting – Wednesday 4th March 2020 in Belfast

Dates for 2020 are on Calendar of Events on RMDS website www.rmdservice.com

http://www.rmdservice.com/

Thank You

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Industry Governance Group - RMDS...MCR Version Description Status MCR1157 V4.0 Data Aggregation and Data Processing ... To facilitate checkpoint firewall management server upgrade