ReMCoWG Agenda - RMDS...31st August 2016 ReMCoDS Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service Co-Ordinated Market Release Summary C0-MMR C0-MMR 10.7 (CoBL version 2.4) – Went live

31st August 2016 Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS

ReMCoWG Agenda

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Agenda Item Presenter Time

Introduction Jessica Gregory, ReMCoDS 12:45 – 12:50

ReMCoSG Meeting Feedback Jessica Gregory, ReMCoDS 12:50 – 12:55

ReMCoWG Action Items Jessica Gregory, ReMCoDS 12:55 – 13:00

Tibco Hub/EMMA Update John Bracken, ESBN 13:00 – 13:10

Smart Metering Update CER 13:10 – 13:20

Market Design Update Jessica Gregory, ReMCoDS 13:20 – 13:35

ReMCoWG To-Do List Review Jessica Gregory, ReMCoDS 13:35 – 13:40

AOB & Closing Jessica Gregory, ReMCoDS 13:40 – 13:45


Approval of Minutes

Minutes (v1.0) from ReMCoWG meeting

29th June 2016

For Approval Today


ReMCoSG Update

SG Meeting held on 24th August 2016

Next SG on 23rd November 2016

Topic Detail Status

Smart Metering

• Currently in the Replan Process.

• CER has had productive engagements with all NSMP stakeholders, such as ESBN and GNI and has also been

in contact with DC&R, Eirgrid and SEAI.

• CER is working closely with ESBN and GNI to collate all the MPDs and to formulate an End to End Programme

Plan.

CER will have an update at this Forum. 105

Incorporating Smart changes into

the Co-Ordinated Retail Markets -

this action is being retained as a

standing item/placeholder pre-existing

I-SEM

• Currently all I-SEM Workstreams are on track.

• The latest Quarterly I-SEM update was published on the All Ireland Project Website.

Both the CER & ESBN will have an I-SEM update at this Forum

TIBCO/Schema

Programme

P Mallon provided the ESBN/NIE Networks TIBCO Project update. He outlined slides on the following:

• Project Plan, Message Volumes processed, Cut-Over, Hypercare Period, Next Steps including Market

Assurance Recommendations and Retail Market IT Program.

•1 New Action was logged. Action 136: CER/UR to agree on how they want to receive the outcome of the TIBCO

recommendations 136

CER/UR to agree on how they

want to receive the outcome of

the TIBCO recommendations New

Co-Ordinated

Retail Market

Plan

• All agreed that Action 135 should remain open as this Action is currently with the UR who are yet to revert to

the CER with their position on the proposal produced by ESBN and NIE Networks.

• IT was proposed that ROI goes ahead with the working assumption to follow the plan which would include a

schema release in 2018. CER would be required to formally support this approach. It would have to be

acknolwedged that the UR decision may impact the current working assumption. This may or may not lead to a

change in the plan for a 2018 release. 135

CER/UR to provide a decision

around the future Co-ordinated

Market Priorities and deliveries

of such Open

Action Item


ReMCoWG Action Items

2 Actions were closed since last ReMCoWG meeting

2 Actions were opened at the last ReMCoWG meeting & 1

Action Carried Forward

TIBCO Update

Wednesday 31st August, 2016

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Agenda

• Project Plan

• Message Volumes processed

• Cut-Over

• Hypercare Period

• Next Steps

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Plan on a Page

Project Phase

07/03 14/03 21/03 28/03 04/04 11/04 18/04 25/04 02/05 09/05 16/05 23/05 30/05 06/06 13/06 20/06 27/06 04/07 11/07 18/07 25/07 01/08 Aug/ Sep

Defect

Resolution

& Software

Deployment

Market Comms

IPT

PT

OAT

Regr. Test

KT

CER/UR

Progress

Reports

Cutover

Hyper-

care

MCR

2.3.2 PT

Cycle 1 & 2

2.3.3 SIT

2.3.3 PT 1

Defect Resol.

2.3.3 Soak 2.3.3 Smart Supplier

PT Close

PT

PT Sup Prep

Prod Ready

2.3.2 & WebSphere to all Supplier EMMAs

2.3.3 Suppliers

Ready to commence

IPT Pre-IPT

Environment

ready for PT

2.3.3 Packaged

IPT 2

DR3

Go-Live

5th – 7th August

Market

Assurance Report

CER/UR Project

Go/No-Go Hard Freeze –

Go-Live release

Hypercare

2.3.3 SIT Deploy

Knowledge Transfer

MCR UAT / Regression MCR DR3

MCR Go-Live

2.3.3 Deploy

Retail Market Communications and Feedback

EMMA

Ops

Cut-Over


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Cut-Over

• All billing issues were cleared in advance of Cut Over;

• Cut over went as planned and per dress rehearsals;

• Suppliers with enterprise IT billing systems - their changes went very well;

• Suppliers who did not have enterprise IT billing systems - only had validation

checks to carryout;

• On Friday night some suppliers did not turn off flow of messages but this was resolved

quickly;

• On Saturday some Suppliers were logged onto their old TIBCO EMMA and reported

failed validation. Quickly corrected and logged onto new EMMA and validation

completed;

• Some suppliers had issues with password management on their EMMA but again

resolved.

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Hypercare Status - 30th August

• Market Message Processing (up to 3am on 30th August)

Note:

Reason for

Small

Variations is

fully

explainable.


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Hypercare period

• 2 weeks of Hypercare left provided all going well each week

• Project status - Going well and no issues of note

• Small event on Thursday 11th night @ 23:30

• Suppliers EMMAs

• Jeopardy management

• Suppliers IT infrastructure and infrastructure back-ups

• Supplier knowledge of EMMA operations and their database support varies significantly

• Market messaging activity is 24 hours a day, every day.

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Next Steps

Hypercare

• Routine daily checks and reporting to continue

• Market Communications will continue during Hypercare period but at a reduced level

• Individual Supplier interactions as required

Project Wrap Up

• Deferred Work Package testing nearing completion

• Lessons Learned workshops and interviews nearing completion

• Project Close Out report nearing completion and Resource roll off progressing

Market Assurance Recommendations

• Agree approach


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Supplier Outages July 2016

2 Planned and 6 Unplanned Outages


TIBCO Update

Wednesday 31st August, 2016



Co-ordinated Retail Market Design Update

Co-ordinated Retail Market Design update

Jessica Gregory

ReMCoDS


Co-Ordinated Market Release Summary

C0-MMR C0-MMR 10.7 (CoBL version 2.4) – Went live successfully on 02 June 2016

Schema Release 2015 Went live Successfully on 05 August 2016

MCR 1111

MCR 1122

MCR 1133

CoBL updated to version 3.0 on 05 August 2016

TiBCO Rewrite Project (TUP)

Went live Successfully on 05 August 2016

Hypercare concludes on 16 September 2016

Next Schema Market Release (Agreed it will not be 2016, but 2017/2018?)

Decision as to when the next Schema and Non Schema releases will take place are

pending the outcome to ReMCoSG action 135 (CER/UR to provide a decision around

the future Co-ordinated Market Priorities and deliveries of such)

ReMCoDS wants to thank all MP’s for their involvement & co-operation for the duration of the TIBCO & Schema release 15. We enjoyed working with you all


CER have reviewed the New Registration’ process for customers who do not actively

choose a supplier as part of the new connection process. In the interest of a level

playing field and to further support the development of competition, CER are

considering a change to the current default process to a single supplier.

The core driver from CER is that the default Supplier, for sites which do not elect a

supplier within 5 days of energisation, should not automatically be Electric Ireland. This

is seen to be an unfair advantage from market perspective. The intention of the change

request is to look at the process and develop an equitable process around New

Connections which does not give unfair advantage to any one supplier.

RMDS recommends that New Registrations would follow a similar process to that

which exists for >=30kVA new connections. The customer must sign up with a supplier

of choice before energisation The choice of the Supplier is therefore correctly in the

hands of the customer.

DR1180 – New Registrations(1/2)


DR1180 – New Registrations(2/2)

When the quotation letter for a new connection is sent out to the customer by ESBN

this should contain a paragraph which will detail the requirement for mandatory

selection of a Supplier by the customer in advance of energisation.

The difference to the current process is that for sites < 30 kVA the customer will in

future have to contact a Supplier of choice who will submit a registration to ESBN with

the customer name, and receipt of the registration by MRSO becomes a requirement

before the site is energised.

At Today’s Meeting: For Classification as ROI Specific


CER’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 create a single wholesale electricity market across

Europe, the intention of the RA’s I-SEM team is that there would be minimum impact

for the Retail Market and for Meter Data Providers arising from the I-SEM.

ESB Networks is one of the four Meter Data Providers represented at the I-SEM

Metering Working Group and have been considering the impacts of the I-SEM.

The proposed changes are fully detailed in DR1182 and include changes to the Data

Processing and the Data Aggregation Retail Market business process between ESB

Networks and Market Participants.

At Today’s Meeting: For Classification as ROI Specific

DR1182 – Impact of I-Sem on the Retail Market


DR1183 – 010 Cust Validation Agreement(1/2)

Within the retail market, customer agreements must be in place before a 010MM can

be submitted. In addition, a ten working day cooling off period must have been

completed prior to the submission of the 010MM.

Currently there is no definitive facility within the market to validate the existence of a

customer agreement and the ten working day cooling off period. The supply agreement

flag contained within the MIG for meter registration assumes the existence of the

customer agreement. At the request of UR, changes to the 010MM are required to

capture the associated customer agreement details.

It is proposed to add an additional field to the 010MM which must be populated with

the date of the customer agreement


DR1183 – 010 Cust Validation Agreement(2/2)

Validation will be required to:

Determine that the ten working day cooling off period has been maintained between

the date of the customer agreement and the submission of the 010MM

Confirm that the date of the customer agreement is not more than 6 weeks prior to the

date of the submission of the 010MM.

Confirm that the customer agreement is not submitted more than twice. An unique

identifier will be required for each customer agreement.

A 102 R rejection message will be issued with a new data code which will indicate that

the timescales have failed validation.

At Today’s Meeting: For Approval as DR


Outages

No outage information for September has been received as of yet

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ReMCoWG Meeting

AOB


Next Steps

Diary dates for next ReMCoWG meeting:

Wednesday 2nd November 2016 - Belfast

Dates included on Calendar of Events on RMDS

website www.rmdservice.com

http://www.rmdservice.com/


ReMCoWG Meeting

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