This page contains a training video and training materials on (Non Half Hourly) Profiling Arrangements. This video will be of interest to customers in a role relating to Supplier Volume Allocation and require a more detailed insight into profiling.
What is covered in this training video
- What are Profile Classes
- How we collect the data and how Profiles are constructed
- EAC/AAs and Profile Coefficients
- Group Correction Factors and how they influence metered volumes
Profiling Arrangements training video
- For the (Non Half Hourly) Profiling Arrangements training video transcript please contact [email protected]
FAQs
Elexon can provide some example data to non-BSC parties free of charge. The detailed profile data can be purchased under licence. Details are provided on the Data Flows webpage:
BSC parties are entitled to other levels of profile data depending on their Market Role.
The temperature data is provided to the SVA Agent on a daily basis by the Meteorological Office and is collected for each GSP Group from weather stations that are approved for use by the Supplier Volume Allocation Group (SVG).
You can download a list of the approved weather stations on the Elexon Portal. [You will need to login to see this data].
The Profile Administrator collects half-hourly demand data from customers in the profiling samples.
The Profile Administrator uses temperature data from each GSP Group in the creation of Profiling data. The Supplier Volume Allocation Agent (SVA Agent) uses the out-turn temperature data to calculate Daily Profile Coefficients.
The method of allocating a Profile Class is dependent on whether:
- i. the Metering System Identifier (MSID) is Import or Export;
- ii. meter usage is Domestic or Non-Domestic;
- iii. meter has ‘switched load’ capabilities;
- iv. Maximum Demand (MD) is recorded.
More information on the allocation of Profile Classes is available from BSCP516 – Allocation of Profile Classes and SSC’s for Non Half Hourly SVA Metering Systems Registered in SMRS
- Profile Class 1 – Domestic Unrestricted Customers
- Profile Class 2 – Domestic Economy 7 Customers
- Profile Class 3 – Non-Domestic Unrestricted Customers
- Profile Class 4 – Non-Domestic Economy 7 Customers
- Profile Class 5 – Non-Domestic Maximum Demand (MD) Customers with a Peak Load Factor (LF) of less than 20%
- Profile Class 6 – Non-Domestic Maximum Demand Customers with a Peak Load Factor between 20% and 30%
- Profile Class 7 – Non-Domestic Maximum Demand Customers with a Peak Load Factor between 30% and 40%
- Profile Class 8 – Non-Domestic Maximum Demand Customers with a Peak Load Factor over 40%
- For more information, please read Load Profiles and their use in electricity Settlement.
A Load Profile represents the pattern of electricity usage by day and by year for the average customer in one of eight Profile Classes.
Profile Classes 1 and 2 are for domestic premises and Classes 3 to 8 are for non-domestic premises.
We create Profiles for each of these Profile Classes by randomly selecting sites and installing half-hourly meters at these sites. This data is seen as representative of all meters in this Profile Class.