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Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS

Retail Markets Co-Ordination

Working Group

Wednesday, 2nd September, 2015

CER Offices

Dublin


ReMCoWG Agenda

Agenda Item Presenter Time

Introduction Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:00 – 13:05

ReMCoSG Meeting Feedback Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:05 – 13:20

Tibco Hub/EMMA Update Carmel O’Connor, ESBN 13:20 – 13.30

Smart Metering Update TBC 13:30 – 13:40

Market Design Update Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:40 – 13:50

ReMCoWG To-Do List Review Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:50 – 13:55

AOB & Closing Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:55 – 14:00


Approval of Minutes

Minutes from ReMCoWG meeting

8th July 2015


Update from ReMCoSG Meeting

2nd Sept 2015

Topic Detail Action Item Status

Smart Metering • Paul Brandon is the new Manager for Smart Metering in CER and will attend all SGs going forward. • It was agreed to keep action 105 open as a standing item. 105

Incorporating Smart changes into the Co-Ordinated Retail Markets - this action is being retained as a standing item/placeholder pre-existing

TIBCO

• ESBN/NIE gave an update on the recent events - outages on the 25th & 26th August. RA's requested that incident report be made public to market. Outage process & emergency page on RMDS website was invoked and according to Supplier Reps was an improvement and worked well.

TIBCO/Schema Programme

ESBN/NIE outlined a high level plan of the Tibco Upgrade Project. • The Technical build completed on time. • There have been some delays to SIT and MCR Regression testing. • Schema V11.00.00 Draft 6 and Test Messages issued as planned on 21st August. • First internal project assurance audit with EY is almost complete. • Suppliers Detailed Customer and Test Workshop was scheduled for 26th August but has been postponed with a new date to be decided. It may run in line with webforms training and take place on the same day. • TUP Email address and weekly conference call are being utilised by Supplies. • The programme cutover date may be impacted as a result of some recent issues identified over the last week. The Project Board on the 7th September aims to determine if the cutover date will change. Suppliers will be informed immediately of any decision. 133

Tibco Programme to provide a high level plan for Supplier engagement with relevant dates and contacts Closed

TIBCO/Schema Programme - Assurance

The two current Assurance Deliverables were discussed. PQ - Delays in PQ response returns by MP has caused PQ report completion delays. Two notable findings to date were 1) No cutover plans pending delivery of programme cutover plan 2) Reliance by some MPs on IPT instead of own internal tests. IPT - IPT Workbook v1.0 has been issued to both ROI and NI MPs. Version 2.0 to be issued during week of 7th Sept.

Other ReMCoSG distribution contact list confirmed and ratified by RA’s and all present.


ReMCoWG Action Items - Closed

2nd Sept 2015

• Updated ReMCoWG Action List issued in advance of meeting

• 2 Actions closed since last ReMCoWG meeting.

AP No. Title

Org.

Assigned to Date Closed Date Raised

132 ReMCoSG to give formal response to SSE Airtricity to why TIBCO Upgrade project

was put on hold. ReMCoDS to forward this request to the ReMCoSG ReMCoDS 08/07/2015 04/03/2015

133 TIBCO upgrade Program to provide feedback to Suppliers on the freeze time for

the cutover Suppliers 08/07/2015 08/07/2015


ReMCoWG Action Items

2nd Sept 2015

• Updated ReMCoWG Action List issued in advance of meeting

• 3 Actions still open since last ReMCoWG meeting.

AP No. Title

Org.

Assigned to Date Due Date Raised

134

Suppliers to contact TIBCO Project if they are interested in engagement from

Capita with their

EMMA configuration. Suppliers 17/07/2015 08/07/2015

135 Suppliers are requested to review DR 1168 and revert back to ReMCoDS with any

queries. Suppliers 12/08/2015 08/07/2015

136

ESBN to discuss with CER if the IGG/ReMCoWG documents should be published

on the

private website. ESBN 02/09/2015 08/07/2015

ReMCoWG

2 September 2015

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AGENDA

• Recent Events

• Future Plans

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Recent Events

• Maintain operational stability

– Connectivity issues on 25 & 26 August 2015

Unavailable from 10.00 to 13.30 on 25th

3.5 hours approx.

Backlog of 17,000 messages cleared in approx. 1 hour

Unavailable from 22.00 to 17.00

19 hours approx.

Overnight backlog of 95,000 messages

Backlog completely cleared and normal operations resumed by 17.00

Root cause related to hosts within the SAN infrastructure

- stopped passing network traffic intermittently leading to it becoming

non-responsive

VMWare patch applied on 28 August

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Recent Events

Start Date End Date PlannedContingency

InvokedComments Supplier

26/06/2015 26/06/2015 N Y Supplier connectivity issue Supplier 1







23/07/2015 23/07/2015 Y Y Server patching Supplier 8







12/08/2015 12/08/2015 N Y BT Planned Outage Supplier 2


18/08/2015 ? N Y Supplier connectivity issue

- Supplier not responding

to emails / calls

Supplier 7

No. of Planned Outages No. of Unplanned

Outages

No. of times Contingency

Invoked

4 13 17

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Future Plans

• Outage Dates:

• Due to NIE Disaster Recovery the following is required:

• Network POC - Sunday 13th September - Outage from 08:00 to 20:00.

• DR weekend – Saturday 26th to 28th September – Outage from 08:00 (Saturday) to 08:00

Monday 28th September.

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TIBCO Upgrade & Schema Release

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TIBCO Upgrade - Current Status

• Project restarted on March 2nd, 2015

• Project team met Suppliers for a technical meeting on May 7th

• Technical build completed

• System Integration testing in week 6 of 5 i.e. in to contingency week

• MCR Regression testing delayed by one week

• Market Assurance

• ESBN and NIE have returned PQs

• IPT V1.0 received

• Data gathering requirements under discussion

• First internal project assurance audit with EY almost complete

• Schema V11.00.00 Draft 6 and Test Messages Issued as planned on 21st August

• Supplier Detailed Cutover and Test Workshop scheduled for 26th Aug

postponed with new date TBC

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TIBCO Upgrade - Current Status

• TUP email address and weekly conference call being utilised by Suppliers

• Supplier installs started but slow progress needs continuous review

• Some Suppliers are behind schedule and may need further prompting

• The holiday season provided resourcing challenges for all – DNOs and

Suppliers

• Currently the team are reviewing some issues that have arisen over the last

couple of weeks in order to determine if they will impact on the proposed

cutover date – a decision will be reached within the next two weeks

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Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS 2nd Sept 2015

Retail Market Design Update

Jessica Gregory

ReMCoDS


CoBLCR 011 – New Meter RM Codes

Reason for CoBLCR

Asset management, have entered into new meter supply contracts and some of the meter

types in the new contract are different to the previous contract.

RM Codes are used to define different metering Materials.

4 new Meter codes are required.. The RM Codes are a coded value under Data Item Meter

Category.

Description of Change

New Code Material Description in SAP

RM260 1 PHASE IMP/EXP QH 20(100)

RM427 1 PH ELEC CT ST/DT 5(10)

RM554 3 PHASE IMP/EXP QH 20(100)

RM653 3 PHASE ELEC CT QH 5(10)

At Today’s Meeting:

Recommendation for Classification as ROI

2nd Sept 2015


MCR 1154 – New Unmetered Tariff for NI

2nd Sept 2015

What is proposed in MCR 1154

New photocells are being rolled out across the Department of Regional Development network in NI. These

new cells are 35/18 photocells compared to (1) dusk to dawn (70/35) (3,906 burn hours) and (2) continuous

(8,970 burn hours). These new cells will reduce burn hours by 47 hrs per annum. Currently there are only

two DUoS tariffs for unmetered Public Lighting in NI.

They are T710 - Unmetered 24 Hours and T711 – Unmetered Dusk to Dawn.

This MCR proposes two tariff profiles to cater for the new photocells.

LCC Power recommends the implementation of two tariff profiles for unmetered supplies to reflect the

reduced usage by 47 hours.

LCC Power would like two new tariffs to be introduced for the unmetered supply, so that the most can be

made out of the new photocells which are being rolled out across the country. 1) Dusk to Dawn profile,

35Lux ON & 18Lux OFF PECU, and 2) Dusk to Dawn profile, 35Lux ON & 18Lux OFF PECU with Part-

Night Switch Off between 01:00hrs and 05:30hrs.


Recommendation for Approval


MCR 0175(v.5.0) - New Reject Reasons for Address Change

Rejection

What is proposed in MCR 0175

The issue involves the lack of clarity as to why an address change was rejected. The IID reject reason is used for a variety of

reasons and provides no view as to why ESBN decided to reject the proposed site address change.

Suppliers find it difficult to provide answers to customers who are asking why the site addresses they requested to be

changed have not been changed.

Version 4.0 of this MCR was approved in 2012. Now amended to version 5.0 to include AD9 as a reject reason.

It has been proposed to add more specific site address change reject reasons to the list. The list of reject reasons is below.

AD1 Duplicate street address/numbering exists in the city/street proposed.

AD2 Approval not received in writing from Local Authority to change street/dev. name. AD3 DUoS group conflict here.

AD4 MPRN stated either terminated or disconnected,

AD5 Being dealt with as a bulk address correction for the development. AD6 Requested address change does not conform

to the regional structure. AD7 No payment for DMR.

AD8 Other Address reason

AD9 Invalid Postal Code




DR 1168 – Market Messages for Config Changes

What is proposed in DR 1168

Over the last number of months Energia have witnessed a rise in 331 MMs received from NIE which are

meter configuration changes but there are no metering details sent in the XML. This scenario appears to

occur specifically where the meter configuration has changed from H100 to H101 and export registers are

being added to an existing QH meter by NIE.

In previous email discussions NIE have advised that they are unable to send us a 331 with meter details

populated. This has resulted in manual work for our business users on the Energia system and the numbers

have increased. On 7th May 2015 fifteen 331 XML messages were received in this scenario.

This DR has been requested for NIE to put a fix in place as soon as possible to ensure that suppliers always

receive updated metering details via market message for any configuration changes.

In this case where export is being added to the existing meter, there is clearly a change here which should be

communicated back to the supplier via metering details received in the XML.



2nd Sept 2015



The CCMA and NRA have requested changes in the Unmetered Public Lighting sector in the Electricity

Retail Market in RoI to facilitate energy efficiencies in Local Authority Public Lighting.

This request has been submitted to ESB Networks from the Local Government Sector under the auspices

of the CCMA/NRA.

New lamp types are proposed to be installed which will have the ability to be pre-programmed to allow for

Dimming at specific proportions and at specific times.

The CCMA/NRA has noted that the consultation process undertaken by them across the local government

sector indicated that 11 burn profiles for new Dimming regimes are a minimum requirement for the public

lighting providers over the coming years.

This Change Request documents the CCMA’s and NRA’s top four essential priorities. The seven remaining

priorities are not being raised at this time and can be raised in separate change requests at a later date.

Additional Burn Hour Calendars for DUoS billing and additional Load Profiles for Data Aggregation are

proposed to be introduced in RoI in the Electricity Retail Market.


For Discussion/Approval

2nd Sept 2015

DR 1167– Facilitate Energy Efficiencies in Local Authority Public

Lighting


DR 1169 – Addition of Postal Code to two

Downloadable Meter Point Details Files


This 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 Downloadable Meter Point Files. Two of these five files are impacted by

this proposed change. They are:

Domestic MRPN Details (domS_CUST.csv) ;

Commercial MPRN Details (COMM_CUST.csv);

Changes to the 2 files

For the Meter Point Address, the Postal Code, where it is available in the Central Market System, will be

populated in a new Postal Code column.

The new Postal Code column will be added after the Region column.


Recommendation for classification as ROI specific

2nd Sept 2015


Assurance Update - TIBCO / Schema Release 2015

2nd Sept 2015

Deliverable Date Status

Assurance Strategy

Co-Ordinated Assurance Strategy 12.11.2014 Complete

WG approval of Assurance Strategy 23.06.2014 Complete

SG Approval of Assurance Strategy 24.06.2014 Complete

PQ

PQ issue 07.07.2015 Complete

PQ return 07.08.2015 Complete

PQ report to RA's 04.09.2015

Anonymised PQ report issued to Market 07.09.2015

PQ findings communicated to individual MPs with due

dates for follow on action defined. 07.09.2015

IPT

IPT workbook v1.0 issued to market 04.08.2015 Complete

Comments, amendments, data included in Workbook 04.08-07.09 In process

IPT workbook v2.0 issued to market

Week of

07.09.15

MPs to set up or data in test system. 14.09 – 25.09

*


Schema Release 2016 - Prioritisation

2nd Sept 2015

MCR

Number DR

/MCR Description Comment To Be part of pack 2016…

DR1168 Draft

DR Market Messages for Config

Changes Not yet approved at WG. Will go to WG on 2/9/2015 for approval.

Assumed it will be available for prioritisation for 2016 Must be approved as DR at WG on 02.09.15 and

then approved as MCR on 04.11.15

MCR1154 Draft

MCR New Un-metered Tariff for NI Approved as DR on 8/7/2015. Will go to WG on 2/9/15 for approval

as MCR and then should be eligible for prioritisation 2016 Approved as MCR on 02.09.15 WG

MCR 1114 MCR

Post-Harmonisation Sundry

Technical Changes to HBL

Schema Prioritised for delivery in 2014 schema release. Release delayed

until 2014. release delayed until delivery of tibco programme Approved as MCR

MCR 1096 MCR

Customer Service Special Needs –

expansion of ROI code set to align

with NI practice was included in prioritisation exercise for 2013 schema release. It

was ranked 4th out of 8 after weightings. Approved as MCR

MCR 0176 MCR Email Address Validation. was included in prioritisation exercise for 2013 schema release. It


MCR 0175 MCR New Reject Reasons for Address

Change Rejection

This updated version needs to be delivered as part of the Eircode

programme (in conjunction with MCR 1140 and MCR 1169) was

included in prioritisation exercise for 2013 schema release. It was

ranked 3rd out of 8 after weightings (first 2 will be delivered with

TIBCO release). Version 5.0 must be approved at WG on

02.09.15

MCR 0073 MCR Proposal to make first name

mandatory on market messages. was included in prioritisation exercise for 2013 schema release. It


MCR 0069 MCR Irish language character set was included in prioritisation exercise for 2013 schema release. It


DRxxxx DR Vulnerable Customer Placeholder

DR - This is identified as a requirement although the detail of DR is

currently not drafted. With ESBN/CER.

DR must be brought to WG on 04.11.15 and

approved as DR and fast tracked as MCR - or

concession made to approve in Jan 16 WG

DR 1167 DR Public Lighting Proposal This DR will cover a portion of the solution with a follow on DR

covering the remainder of the solution

DR brought on 02.09.15 for approval. If no

approval, bring to WG on 04.11.15 & concession

made to approved as MCR in Jan 2016


What’s Next? - Schema 2016 – Prioritisation

2nd Sept 2015

Activity Role Action Date

Rank each of the changes 1-10 with 1 being your top priority and

10 your least important.

MPs Return to ReMCoDS by 11.09.15

Consolidate and formulate Co-ordinated Market prioritised list. ReMCoDS Issue to market by 23.09.15

Determine any action required to get prioritised MCR’s approved

by year end.

ReMCoDS Formulate plan &

communicate by

29.09.15

Provide ESBN/NIE list of prioritised MCRs for impact

assessment.

ReMCoDS Issue to ESBN/NIE 29.09.15

ESBN/NIE/ReMCoDS suggest proposed package of changes

based on prioritisation and dependencies between MCRs.

Proposed delivery dates of changes provided

ESBN/NIE/

ReMCoDS

Issue to ReMCoDS by TBD

Proposed package with delivery dates issued to Market for review

& comment

ReMCoDS Issue to Market 3 weeks prior

to WG in Jan

TBD

MP Make comment/ approve by 1

week prior to WG

TBD

Co-ordinated Market Approval of Schema Package and delivery

Date at WG

Market Approves at WG in January or

March WG 2016

TBD

CER/UR approve Schema Package and delivery Date. CER/UR Approve in January/March

2016

TBD


Outages – Outage 1

2nd Sept 2015


Outages – Outage 2

2nd Sept 2015


Next Steps

2nd Sept 2015

Diary dates for next ReMCoWG meeting:

Wednesday 4th November 2015 - Belfast

Dates included on Calendar of Events on

RMDS website www.rmdservice.com

http://www.rmdservice.com/


2nd Sept 2015

ReMCoWG Meeting

AOB


2nd Sept 2015

Thank You

ReMCoWG Meeting

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