Glossary Term: Main Specified Charge

The charges determined in accordance with paragraph 3 of Annex D-3; The Main Specified Charges payable by Parties in relation to each month are as follows: (a) a Base Monthly Charge, payable by each Party, at an initial charge rate of £250 per month; (b) a CVA Metering System Monthly Charge, for each CVA Metering System (including a Metering System at a Systems Connection Point) of which a Party is Registrant for all or any part of that month, at an initial charge rate of £50 per month; (c) a CVA BM Unit Monthly Charge, for: (i) each BM Unit (other than a Supplier BM Unit and other than BM Units as provided in paragraph (ii)) for which a Trading Party is Lead Party for all or any part of that month; and (ii) for: (1) each Consumption BM Unit associated with an Exemptable Generating Plant for which (Consumption BM Unit) the Trading Party is Lead Party for all or any part of that month (and, in this case, no charge will be made for any Exempt Export BM Units at the Exemptable Generating Plant); or (2) (if there are no Consumption BM Units associated with an Exemptable Generating Plant) all Exempt Export BM Units at the Exemptable Generating Plant for which the Trading Party is Lead Party for all or any part of that month (as a single charge taking such Exempt Export BM Units in aggregate) at an initial charge rate of £100 per month; (d) a Dataline Monthly Charge, for each data communications line supplied to a Trading Party (as described in paragraph 3.3(a)), at an initial charge rate of £2000 per month; (e) a TIBCO Software Support Charge, as described in paragraph 3.3, at an initial charge rate: (i) for the base number of users (in total) as described in paragraph 3.3, of £200 per month; (ii) for each additional user, of £15 per month; (f) a Notified Volume Charge, for the Gross Contract MWh determined for a Trading Party in accordance with paragraph 3.2, at an initial charge rate of £0.0025/MWh; (g) a Base BM Unit Monthly Charge, for a set of Base BM Units (in aggregate) automatically allocated (in accordance with Section K3.3.1(a)) to a Supplier (in respect of each of its Supplier IDs), and held by a Supplier for all or any part of that month, at an initial charge rate of £100 per month; (h) an Additional BM Unit Monthly Charge, for each Supplier BM Unit for which a Supplier is Lead Party for all or any part of that month, and which is not charged for under paragraph (g), at an initial charge rate of £100 per month; and (i) for a Replacement Supplier BM Unit held by a Replacement Supplier for all or any part of that month: (i) which corresponds to a Base BM Unit, to the Replacement Supplier, one twelfth of the Base BM Unit Monthly Charge; (ii) which corresponds to an Additional BM Unit, to the Replacement Supplier, the Additional BM Unit Monthly Charge, and no charge will be made in respect of Replacement Supplier BM Units under paragraphs (g) or (h) provided that, for the purposes of this paragraph 3.1, a BM Unit shall cease to be considered a Replacement Supplier BM Unit when all the Metering Systems associated with that BM Unit are no longer registered in the name of the relevant failing Supplier; has the meaning given to that term in Section D3.1;

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