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Code Drafting in preparation for Market-Wide Half Hourly Settlement (MHHS)
A significant amount of work is being done by Elexon and the Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement Programme (MHHSP) to make changes to BSC documents (or to develop new documents) in preparation for MHHS.
Credit Assessment Load Factor values for spring 2024 BSC Season: 1 February appeal deadline
The Credit Assessment Load Factor (CALF) values for the spring 2024 BSC Season, which runs from 1 March 2024 to 31 May 2024, are available from the Credit/Credit Alerting section under the Financial and Credit menu on the ELEXON 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.
Changes to BSC Parties and Qualified Persons: December 2023
This page lists changes to the status of Balancing and Settlement (BSC) Parties and Qualified Persons in December. It includes information on any new qualifications and registrations, new market participants, withdrawals and defaults.
Reduction of UMS MEM Error threshold from 2024 Quarter 1
The Unmetered Supplies (UMS) Material Error Monitoring (MEM) threshold will reduce from 10,000MWh to 7,000MWh, effective from the Quarter 1 2024 reporting window.
MHHS Qualification Plan presented to Suppliers and Supplier Agent representatives
Code Bodies presented the MHHS Qualification Plan to Suppliers and Supplier Agent representatives in an extraordinary Qualification Working Group (QWG) meeting on Monday 27 November.
The Qualification Plan provided the current position for Supplier and Supplier Agent Qualification alongside the Qualification Approach & Plan (QAP) and the Qualification Assessment Document (QAD) timelines.
New BSC Service Status Dashboard
We have launched the new BSC Service Status Dashboard today (20 November) so that Parties can see an up to the minute view of whether there are any issues with the BSC services that we provide.
2024 dates for Elexon’s Introduction to the Energy Market seminar released
We have released three new dates for our Introduction to the Energy Market seminars in 2024. Find out more below and sign up to attend.
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Winter 2023 BSC Season
The Winter BSC Season begins on Friday 1 December 2023. The deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the Summer BSC Season is Thursday 16 November 2023.
Even if the values are identical to the last BSC Season you need to submit values for the new Season.
Elexon assurance of legacy Suppliers and agents during the transition to MHHS
The MHHS Programme is introducing changes for legacy Suppliers and agents to support the Migration of Metering System Identifiers (MSIDs) from legacy arrangements to MHHS. Reverse migration can take place during the migration period (from March 2025 onwards) where a customer has switched to a Supplier that is not yet MHHS Qualified.
BSC Insight: How to get more detailed metered volume data from our Insights Solution
Through the electricity Settlement process Elexon obtains metered volume data which shows the generation and demand volumes of electricity for each Balancing Mechanism Unit (BMU) on the system and whether this is an estimated or actual value. This data is included in our SAA-I014 report which covers all Settlement activity for every half hour, each day and it is easily accessible on our wholesale market data service the Insights Solution.