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This page lists changes to the status of Balancing and Settlement (BSC) Parties and Qualified Persons in September. It includes information on any new qualifications and registrations, new market participants, withdrawals and defaults.

The Credit Assessment Load Factor (CALF) values for the Winter 2023 BSC Season, which runs from 1 December 2023 to 29 February 2024, are available from the BSC Portal. If you are the Lead Party of a non-Credit Qualifying BMU, you can appeal an assigned CALF value if you believe it does not accurately represent your expected activity.

• BSC Portal > Financial and Credit > Credit / Credit Alerting

For any Settlement Date and Settlement Run Type carried out in accordance with the Settlement Calendar, the Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) publishes Settlement Reports (known as SAA-I014 reports) to relevant industry parties. Whilst all Settlement Reports are built using the same data, there are slightly differing sub-flows of the SAA-I014 depending on the primary recipient. 

We are aware that  Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) has not been operating to the expected service levels. We recognise that this can be both frustrating and disruptive for our customers. We have put in place a number of actions to address the issues that you have recently experienced.

• BMRS website

Please note that there was an error within the blue text in the original Circular sent on Thursday 10 August. This has since been amended in the version in the online archive.

Please refer to the below information to make manual adjustments.

Change Proposal Circulars (CPCs) are a consultations batch for Change Proposals (amendments to BSC subsidiary documents) and the request of Impact Assessment responses to Change Proposals from Industry Participants. 

The Autumn BSC Season begins on Friday 1 September 2023. The deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the Summer BSC Season is Thursday 17 August 2023.

Even if the values are identical to the last BSC Season you need to submit values for the new Season.

We are looking for members to join the Modification P459 ‘Allowing different Supplier Agents to be appointed to Import and Export MSIDs’ Workgroup, which seeks to remove barriers in preventing the use of Export MSIDs for small-scale microgeneration.

This page lists changes to the status of Balancing and Settlement (BSC) Parties and Qualified Persons in August. It includes information on any new qualifications and registrations, new market participants, withdrawals and defaults.

Elexon will implement Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Modification P395 ‘Aligning BSC Reporting with EMR Regulations – an enduring solution’ on 2 November as part of the November 2023 BSC Release.

We are hosting a webinar on 21 September 2023 to explain the changes.

We are looking for members to join the P456‘Enable Elexon to procure ancillary Technology Services for use by BSC Agents’ Workgroup, which seeks to remove barriers in BSC Section E ‘BSC Agents’.

The SAA-I014 files are released daily to customers and a sequence number is assigned to each file. Some customers have been in contact with us regarding missing file sequence numbers, since the go-live of the new Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) service on Elexon Kinnect, our cloud platform. 

Greater precision

Our new Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) went live on our Kinnect Platform in June 2023. Since then, a small number of customers have asked why rounded numbers are used for trading charges invoiced by the Funds Administration Agent, (FAA) compared with figures that are reported by the SAA  reports.

CP1578 ‘Enabling Embedded LDSOs to submit Site Specific LLFs’  was issued for a second Industry Consultation. We invite responses until 5pm on Friday 4 August 2023. 

On 29 June 2023 the Standard June 2023 Release was implemented. 

This page lists changes to the status of Balancing and Settlement (BSC) Parties and Qualified Persons in July. It includes information on any new qualifications and registrations, new market participants, withdrawals and defaults.

Elexon has built a new and improved portal for publishing Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) disclosures by the industry.

This article explains how Applicable Balancing Services Volume Data (ABSVD) is treated in Settlement for Secondary Balancing Mechanism (BM) Units. We are publishing this following a question from a VLP around why an Imbalance Charge was not calculated for them after National Grid ESO (NGESO) submitted ABSVD values for their Secondary BM Units.

Modification P434 ‘Half Hourly Settlement for UMS Metering Systems’ was implemented on 14 December 2022 as a special BSC Release. This Modification will require a period of mandatory Change of Measurement Class for NHH UMS Metering Systems.

This is the second in our series of articles that provide statistics and information on Radio Teleswitch System (RTS) meters. Since April 2020 the costs for the RTS service have been recovered through the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) charging arrangements.

We’re looking for members to join our P434 Implementation Working Group, created to support Parties impacted by Modification P434 ‘Half Hourly Settlement for UMS Metering Systems’. 

On 6 June 2023 the Supplier Volume Allocation Group (SVG) approved CP1574 ‘Improving the use of the D0215 data flow in the relevant industry processes‘ and the Imbalance Settlement Group (ISG) approved CP1575 ‘Permitting the use of busbar voltage transformers within metering Codes of Practice 1 and 2’ for implementation on 2 November 2023 as part of the standard November 2023 BSC Release.

On 8 June 2023 the BSC Panel approved CP1576 ‘New Interconnector Fuel Type Category: Viking Link’ for implementation on 2 November 2023 as part of the standard November 2023 BSC Release.

We corrected 315 instances where masculine pronouns or terms are used, such as “Chairman”, “he”, “his” and “him” of the BSC and 198 cases of gendered pronouns across 39 Code Subsidiary Documents (CSDs).

This is the first in a series of articles on Radio Teleswitch System (RTS) meters.

Long before smart meters, an option for variable rate meters was the Radio Teleswitch System, which relied on a radio signal for timing information. Since April 2020 the costs for the RTS service have been recovered through the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) charging arrangements. They were previously borne by the Energy Networks Association (ENA). The cost for the RTS service is a direct pass through to BSC Parties, and it has increased from £1.5m in 2022/23 to £4.9m in our 2023/24 business plan.

This page lists changes to the status of Balancing and Settlement (BSC) Parties and Qualified Persons in June. It includes information on any new qualifications and registrations, new market participants, withdrawals and defaults.

The Credit Assessment Load Factor (CALF) values for the Autumn 2023 BSC Season, which runs from 1 September 2023 to 30 November 2023, are available from the BSC Portal. If you are the Lead Party of a non-Credit Qualifying BMU, you can appeal an assigned CALF value if you believe it does not accurately represent your expected activity.

• BSC Portal > Financial and Credit > Credit / Credit Alerting

Calling all industry members – we want your input as members of our Performance Assurance Working Group (PAWG). The PAWG is one of several working groups set up by Elexon to deliver the technical overview of the Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement (MHHS) scope.

We want to give you the tools to help you understand how the change process works.

Change Proposal Circulars (CPCs) are a consultations batch for Change Proposals (amendments to BSC subsidiary documents) and the request of Impact Assessment responses to Change Proposals from Industry Participants.

The Summer BSC Season begins on 1 June 2023 and if you are using the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution, the deadline for submitting your Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) values for the Season is 16 May 2023.

We are looking for members to join a Work Group for Issue 107 ‘Review of BSC Section N – Clearing, Invoicing & Payment’ which will look at areas and associated processes that are currently pain points experienced by the Industry.

Elexon implemented Balancing and Settlement Code Modification P419 ‘Enhanced Reporting of Demand Data to the NETSO to facilitate BSUoS Reform’ in February 2023.

P419 introduced a process to allow Non-Final Demand Operators and Suppliers to declare Supplier Volume Allocation (SVA) Non-Final Demand Facilities through BSC processes so that they would be exempt from Balancing Services Use of System (BSUoS) Charges. 

• Find out more about P419

The following datasets will no longer be published on the following Elexon BSC Portal pages from Thursday 4 May 2023. This is due to the internal migration of our Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) system. However, replacement pages have been created to enable you to access the datasets.

This is of interest to all Suppliers with Non Half Hourly portfolios

At its meeting on 27 April 2023, the Performance Assurance Board (PAB) approved the deployment of EFR for Settlement Risk 008; the risk that Supplier Volume Allocation (SVA) metered data is not processed or transferred correctly, or is not processed at all.

This page sets out the latest information on trading dispute decisions and determinations.

The draft Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement Programme (MHHSP) Approach and Plan states that participants will be allocated to Qualification tranches in May 2024. The Code Bodies want your feedback on the allocation timeline and approach by Tuesday 2 May 2023.

Following our request for customer feedback at the most recent Upcoming BSC Change Proposals meeting on 23 March, the Potential BSC Changes awaiting initial consideration dashboard has been upgraded,

The Balancing and Settlement Code Panel has agreed to Elexon’s recommendation to raise a Modification to remove our obligation to provide Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) data through the High Grade communications line service. 

As part of our  Elexon Kinnect programme we have been building a new Settlement Solution which replaces services of the Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) on our new cloud platform.

The Credit Assessment Load Factor (CALF) values for the Summer 2023 BSC Season, which runs from 1 June 2023 to 31 August 2023, are available from the BSC Portal. If you are the Lead Party of a non-Credit Qualifying BMU, you can appeal an assigned CALF value if you believe it does not accurately represent your expected activity.

• BSC Portal > Financial and Credit > Credit / Credit Alerting

There was an issue with Elexon BSC Portal publishing email alerts. This has now been fixed but after fixing this, the BSC Portal sent email alerts for backfilled data.

These email alerts are not for current system events and can be ignored.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this issue.

Elexon is inviting industry participants to register their interest in joining the Network Gas Supply Emergency Settlement Validation Committee (NGSESVC). Please note that there is no immediate requirement for this committee.

The responses to the ‘Mini-consultation on the future of the SVA Data Catalogue, the User Requirements Specifications and BSC guidance documents’ have now been published.

Due to a global shortage of materials and disruption of global supply chains, there is a shortage of semi-conductors among other crucial components, which impacts the ability for Meter manufacturers to produce and supply electricity Meters, including those required for Settlement under the BSC.

This shortage of Settlement Meters impacts on new connections and fault resolution in both the Supplier Volume Allocation (SVA) and Central Volume Allocation (CVA) markets, and consequently impacts the integrity and accuracy of Settlement.