Data flows available from BSC Systems

Glossary

We produce a large amount of data, much of which is freely available to both BSC Parties and the general public. As well as the data flows listed, BSC Parties are entitled to receive a variety of data flows directly from the central BSC Systems.

Freely available data

Our data is freely available through:

As a BSC Party

BSC Parties are entitled to receive a variety of data flows directly from the central BSC Systems. If you are a Party, please contact your Operational Support Manager (OSM) or the BSC Service Desk to learn more.

If you’re a non-BSC Party

If you’re a company who isn’t a BSC Party but would like to receive specific BSC data, please get in touch with us through the BSC Service Desk.

We have some standard packages of reports that are available to non-Parties on request, subject to set licensing arrangements.

There is currently no cost associated with these licences and some data items within the licences are being assessed through Elexon’s Open Data Request service.

Data flows

1. Market Domain Data (MDD) – provided under ‘P30’ licence arrangements

File Format / Distribution: 

Flat file / pipe delimited format, containing data items in the D0269 or D0270 data flows.
Distributed via CD or other agreed method.
Frequency: As required

Description

MDD is the central repository of Supplier Volume Allocation (SVA) market information and is essential to the operation of the SVA arrangements. We provide the ‘D0269’ or ‘D0270’ data flows upon request, which include critical parameters such as Standard Settlement Configurations, Profile Classes, Grid Supply Point (GSP) Groups and market participant information.

More Information

  • More on Market Domain Data (MDD)
  • For a list of the data items included in the D0269 and D0270 flows, view the Retail Energy Code’s (REC) Energy Market Data Specification (EMDS), which forms part of the Energy Market Architecture Repository (EMAR) on the REC Portal

2. Profile Coefficient Data – provided under ‘P30’ licence arrangements

File Format / Distribution:

Flat file / pipe delimited format, containing data items in the D0018 data flow.
Distributed via CD or other agreed method.
Frequency: Once at the end of the current year, or monthly for the current year

Description

In the Non Half Hourly market, energy prices are based on predicted consumption using ‘load profiles’ that vary both geographically and between different types of customers (Profile Classes).  Information on load profiles (Profile Coefficient data) is essential for Suppliers and buyers to accurately compare market price quotes and for demand forecasting.  We can provide a year’s set of ‘D0018’ files containing this data.

More Information

For a list of the data items included in the D0018 flow, view the Retail Energy Code’s (REC) Energy Market Data Specification (EMDS), which forms part of the Energy Market Architecture Repository (EMAR) on the REC Portal

3. Historic Profile Coefficient Data – provided under ‘P30’ licence arrangements

File Format / Distribution:

Flat file / pipe delimited format, containing data items in the D0018 data flow.
Distributed via CD or other agreed method.
Frequency: On request

Description

As described above. We can provide a year’s set of historic D0018 files to non-Parties.

4. P114 Data Reports provided under BSC Open and Public Data Licence

The Settlement Reports previously subject to a restrictive P114 Data Licence. The items within the files are now licenced under the BSC Open Data Licence and the BSC Public Data Licence for P114 Data Items (PDF) and accessible for all Elexon Portal accounts.

The BSC Public Data Licence for P114 Data Items pertains to specific data items within the files and restricts the commercial use of the raw data items Elexon provides.

You are permitted to use the data items licenced under the Public Data Licence for operation within the GB Electricity Industry. This includes selling of analyses derived from the data items and providing a service to a party to assist them in operating in the GB Electricity Industry. The data items restricted by this licence are marked as ‘Public’ in the Classification column of this Look Up table.

File Format / Distribution:
Downloadable directly from the Elexon FTP Server in flat file / pipe delimited format, or through manual download from the Elexon Portal P114 Data webpage. This webpage is accessible for all Elexon Portal accounts.
Frequency: Daily (one for each Settlement Run)

Description

SAA-I014 (subflow 2)

This report contains everything that happened in the Settlement systems on a particular day, broken down into half hour Settlement Periods. This includes System Buy/Sell Prices, information on trading activity and charges for each Balancing Mechanism Unit (Party), Metered Volumes and Settlement cash flow information. It also has the all the information needed to re-calculate the System Buy and Sell Prices.

CDCA-I029

This report tells you the energy consumption by each regional Grid Supply Point (GSP) Group in Great Britain. By interpreting this report you can find out where the demand is and when.

CDCA-I030

This report includes the volume of energy that was metered at each Distribution System Connection Point for each Settlement Run per day. This can be used to determine the areas of demand and generation in the distribution networks and the line losses that can be expected as these are factored into Suppliers’ tariffs. This is essentially the aggregated metering flows report (CDCA I029 above) broken down into specific connection points in the GSP Group.

CDCA-I042

This report from the Central Data Collection Agent tells you the Metered Volumes of energy for each BM Unit for each aggregation run per day. This will tell you exactly what each individual BM Unit has consumed or generated, and whether this is an estimated or actual value.

More Information

For a list of the data items included in this package, please refer to the P114 data items.

5. Reports provided under ‘P315′ licence arrangements

File Format / Distribution:

Downloadable directly from the Elexon FTP Server in flat file / pipe delimited format, or obtained via an already-licensed non-Party (Third Party)
Frequency: Daily (one for each Settlement Run)

Description

 

P0276 ‘BSCCo GSP Group Consumption Totals Report’

A BSCCo version of the D0276 ‘GSP Group Consumption Totals Report’, which is a report of Consumption Component Class totals for each GSP Group. It is produced daily for the SF, RF and DF Settlement Runs for all runs performed on or after the 30 June 2016, as well as for historical SF and RF runs for Settlement Dates from 1 July 2014.

P0277 ‘GSP Group Market Matrix Report’

This report is an aggregated (market-level) version of the D0082 ‘Supplier Purchase Matrix Report’, which is a report for each Supplier per GSP Group containing the details of the Supplier Purchase Matrix rows used in the calculation of a Settlement Run. The P0277 is produced by summing the data in the D0082 across all Suppliers and Data Aggregators, for all Settlement Runs performed on or after the 30 June 2016 other than the II run.

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