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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.