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Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS

Retail Markets Co-Ordination

Working Group

Wednesday, 9th March, 2016

UR Offices

Belfast


ReMCoWG Agenda

Agenda Item Presenter Time

Introduction Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 12:45 – 12:50

ReMCoSG Meeting Feedback Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 12:50 – 13:00

Tibco Hub/EMMA Update John Bracken, ESBN 13:00 – 13.15

Smart Metering Update TBC 13:15 – 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 from ReMCoWG meeting

13th January 2016


Update from ReMCoSG Meeting – held 24th Feb 2016

Topic Detail Status

Smart Metering

Programme Timelines for the SM Programme - start date of Pre-deployment of Meters Rol out mid 2008 & mid

2019 for Schema go Live

Procurement Process delayed until end of May 2016 and RFT delayed to end of July 2016

CBA (Cost Base Analysis) likely to be pushed out as a result to Q4 2016 and potentially early 2017

Policy Workstream - progressing well. Aim to have have policy drop in early April 2016

Information Paper on Regulatory Road Map is progressing.

Infa Security Work - Ongoing. An Infa Security Workshop is scheduled for early March 2016.

Privacy Impact Assessment completed. Review of this will be completed in March 2016. 105

Incorporating Smart changes into

the Co-Ordinated Retail Markets -

this action is being retained as a

standing item/placeholder pre-existing

I-SEM

During discussiongs regarding SM, It was agreed that I-SEM should be a standing item/placeholder at this

Forum in much the same way that Smart Metering is. A new agenda item will be added for future SG meetings.

TIBCO/Schema

Programme

J Bracken provided the ESBN/NIE Networks update.

• Project is currently engaged in performance testing & issues identified in earlier testing being rectified.

• Some issues have come to light during performance testing and one of the defects has significantly impacted

the availability of the HUB and this has resulted in questioning the feasibility of end of April Cutover date.

• CER raised concern about this delay having knock on impacts for subsequent Schema work and Smart

Metering & this delay impacts both ROI and NI.

• As a result, a new Action was logged (Action 134) to the ESBN/NIE to provide a report outlining the

implications of the TUP Project delay on al other Retail market deliveries/projects.

• It was agreed that as the SG is not until the 25th May, an Extraordinary SG Meeting be schedule for the 1st

week of April. The Report should be may available by ESBN/NIE by the end of March so it can be reviewed

ahead of the meeting. 134

TIBCO Upgrade Programme

(TUP)– ESBN/NIE Networks to

provide a report outlining the

implications of the TUP Project

delay on all other Retail market

deliveries/projects New

TIBCO/Schema

Programme -

Assurance

J Gregory provided the TIBCO/Scheam Programme update.

IPT 1 - has completed for ROI and NI. In ROI, RMDS ran 1,300 testing cases across all MPs. 1 defect was found

relationing to the Essentail Plant MCR in ROI. A further found in relation to the 601 MM & 2 defects identified

in the case of 60MM. As a huge volume of TIBCO technical and connectivity issues arose, it was decided that

IPT2 is required. ReMCoDS will issue a Declaration to the RAs & to the Programme to highlight Suppliers views

on testing. An EXIT Report will be issued in ROI.

IPT 2 - will focus on a low level of technical details due to the high levels of issues in IPT 1. IPT 2 currently in

planning stage and will contain roughly 40 scenarious (for ROI) that will run over a 2 week period which all

Suppliers will be involved in. The IPT 2 will depend of the Go-LIve Cutover date.

General

To ensure adequate representation from all Suppliers at the SG (via Supplier Reps), ReMCoDS will issue the

two Supplier Reps with a list of all Suppliers so that these can be included.

Action Item


ReMCoWG Action Items

• No Actions closed since last ReMCoWG meeting

• 1 Action still open since last ReMCoWG meeting.

AP No. Title

Org.

Assigned to Date Due Date Raised

139 Suppliers to respond with all comments to Secure Meters regarding the Disaster

Recovery Suppliers 09/03/2016 04/11/2015

ReMCoWG

9th March 2016

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Introduction – John Bracken

Contact @ 087.6469070

Professional

• Management Accountant (ACMA)

• Corporate Treasurer (ACT)

• Others: • Diploma in Supply Chain Management (UCC)

• C&G Diploma IT (DIT, Bolton Street, Dublin)

Wide ESB Experience

• Including Finance, Group Internal Audit, Delivery (Program) ..

• Recent Role - Business Performance Manager, ESBN • Responsible for all ESB Network Spend (High Capex and Opex Spend)

• Includes Meter &Data Services, IT, Telecoms, Program Delivery, Customer ..

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AGENDA

• Recent Events

• Future Plans

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Recent Events

• Maintain operational stability

• There was one planned outage on Sunday 17th January to carry out

routine maintenance (impact on ROI only).

• There was a backlog of messages in SAP PI on Wednesday 27th January

which impacted on ROI only and impacted on one supplier.

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Recent Events

Infra Ref Supplier / Hub Start Date End Date Planned Contingency Invoked Comments

309593 Pow erNI 01/01/2016 02/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

309904 Click Energy 04/01/2016 05/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

310722 Arden 06/01/2016 20/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

310332 Eirgrid 07/01/2016 07/01/2016 Y Y Server patching

311527 Electron 09/01/2016 18/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

310634 Vayu 11/01/2016 11/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

311103 TempleDerry 13/01/2016 20/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

311420 Crystal Energy 15/01/2016 18/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues


311645 Electric Ireland 19/01/2016 18/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

311706 Pow erGen 19/01/2016 17/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues



312091 Pinergy 21/01/2016 26/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues


312561 LCC 25/01/2016 25/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

312091 Pinergy 27/01/2016 28/01/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues



317653 EirGrid 01/02/2016 03/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

314655 EcoPow er 09/02/2016 09/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

315325 Panda Pow er 13/02/2016 15/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

317502 TempleDerry 15/02/2016 16/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

317654 Open Electric 15/02/2016 17/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

315639 Electric Ireland 16/02/2016 16/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

315633 EcoPow er 17/02/2016 22/02/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

317656 Eirgrid 23/02/2016 23/02/2016 Y Y Server patching

316428 Airtricity 25/02/2016 26/02/2016 Y Y Server patching

316702 Electron 26/02/2016 03/03/2016 N Y Supplier connectivity issues

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Performance Testing

Performance Testing Objectives

Objective

• HUB to process 450,000 messages per day

• this equates to approx. 3.5 times the normal day message volumes (130,000)

• HUB to process 1.125 million messages in a day (24 hrs)

• In the event of a prolonged outage – 5 working day outage

• Large EMMA to process 150,000 per day and the Small EMMA to process 10,000 per day

• The hourly profile of the market message volumes reflects the current hourly profile on a normal day for 450,000 messages

• The Hub implementation is for High Availability. The Hub can process all message volumes on either side of the dual infrastructure.

• The solution can deal with the loss of an EMMA or a malfunctioning EMMA without any negative impact on the Hub or any other EMMAs

• The HUB to process Smart Metering message volumes with larger message data packages

• HUB to process 2.25 million messages in a day (24 hrs)

• In the event of a prolonged outage – 5 working day outage

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Performance Testing & Defects

Date

Inbound

Completed

Outbound

Completed

03/03/2016 25,751 409,646

04/03/2016 31,268 389,036

05/03/2016 40,165 411,617

06/03/2016 40,135 411,626

Message Volumes Tested

• Currently the Project has 22 performance defects to progress (7/3/2016)

• Of these, 15 are fixed, unit tested and ready for re-testing

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Next Steps

• A re-planning exercise is underway, with senior management representation

from all the key project delivery parties.

• The output of this exercise will be firstly presented to CER/UR

• It will then be presented to the retail market.

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Questions?

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Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS 9th March 2016

Retail Market Design Update

Jessica Gregory

ReMCoDS


MCR1111 – Automated Debt Flagging Solution(Version 4.0)

9th March 2016

This Change Request proposed the implementation of Debt Flagging via the Objection/Cancellation process and

using existing Messages and the re-use of existing codes.

Change Request was approved in 2012 and is due to be implemented in the next Schema Release.

This re-versioned MCR details further information on the population of reject reason codes.

• If the New Supplier sends in an 011MM Cancellation Registration Request with the cancellation

reason code 'DE' Objection for Debt there will be new validations to check if MRSO has received the

011MM either before the start of the SWP or after the SWP expiry.

• An 011MM with a Cancellation Registration Request with cancellation reason code DE Objection

for Debt cannot be in train at the same time as an 012MM with an objection reason code of

erroneous transfer. The Cancellation Reason Code will be invalid.

At Todays Meeting:

For Approval


TIBCO / Market Release 2015 - IPT Update

9th March 2016

IPT1 – completed for both ROI and NI

In ROI - 1300 test cases were run and analysed.

Schema Release 2 x MCRs (ROI)

1 defect relating to the 301 effective date was identified

TIBCO

3 functional defects (2 x 602MM and 1 x 601MM)

Numerous technical/connectivity/Webforms issues

Supplier declarations. Received by all MPs involved. Responses provided to TUP and RA’s and assisted

with determination of IPT2 scope and focal areas.

IPT2

2 week duration

Focused primarily on the TIBCO technical issues and the 3 TIBCO functional defects.

Approx scope for ROI:

37 test cases

20 scenarios (covering 23 test cases)

1 Supplier declaration covering 6 test cases

Capita/IBM/TUP declaration covering 8 test cases

General Supplier declaration similar to previous declaration which you completed for IPT1.

Approx scope for NI:

9 Test cases

All covering TIBCO/webforms/connectivity


What’s Next? - Schema 2016 – Prioritisation

9th March 2016

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/R

eMCoDS

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

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 TBD

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

January/March 2016

TBD


2015 ReMCoWG Customer Satisfaction Survey

9th March 2016

To ensure the Annual Survey more accurately reflects the year being surveyed (in

this case 2015) the ReMCoWG survey will be issued on 18th March 2016.

Return date will be 15th April 2016.

All Market Participants are encouraged to respond as we action items arising out of

the survey to improve service delivery to the Market.


Next Steps

9th March 2016

Diary dates for next ReMCoWG meeting:

Wednesday 4th May 2016 - Dublin

Dates included on Calendar of Events on

RMDS website www.rmdservice.com

http://www.rmdservice.com/


ReMCoWG Meeting

AOB


Thank You

ReMCoWG Meeting

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