CP1532 ‘Reduce Half Hourly Change of Supplier timelines to meet the Initial Settlement Run’

CP1532 was implemented in the June 2022 BSC Release.

CP1532 Solution and Implementation Update

Following the SVG’s decision to approve CP1532, BSCP514 has been moved to the Retail Energy Code (REC) following the implementation of P420 ‘Retail Code Consolidation Significant Code Review’ . 

As a result the CP1532 solution will now be implemented in both the BSC and REC. On 7 December 2022 the Supplier Volume Allocation Group (SVG) approved CP1532  for implementation on 30 June 2022 as part of the June 2022 Standard BSC Release. 

The CP1532 Assessment Report was presented to the SVG at its meeting on 1 September 2020.  The committee unanimously approved the CP.

The CP Implementation date has been moved to February 2022 to align with the Central Switching Service and Switching Significant Code Review go-live following industry consultation responses.

Red-lining changes were made to provide greater clarity to the solution.

Next Steps

CP1532 will be implemented on 24 February 2022.

Consultation Responses

In total there were ten respondents to the Change Proposal Consultation from Market Roles including Suppliers, Supplier Agents and a Distributor.  Eight of the ten respondents agreed with the proposed solution, with seven respondents noting they would be impacted and incur costs.

Why Change?

It is not currently possible for HH Supplier Agents to complete Change of Supplier (CoS) activities by the Initial Settlement Run, if the CoS process is initiated two WDs ahead of the Supply Start Date (SSD) and if Suppliers and their Agents use the maximum lead times available within the relevant BSCPs.

If Suppliers and Agents use the maximum lead time available to them, this could result in estimated data entering Settlement, due to the subsequent Agent appointment and data transfer processes not completing in time to provide actual data in the Initial Settlement Run.

Updating and clarifying the timelines around the CoS process within these BSCPs will align with the objectives of the REC and Switching SCR in 2021 and ensure that the HH CoS process, in particular, will complete by the SF Run, by design rather than good practice.

Next Steps

CP1532 will be presented to SVG for decision at its meeting on Tuesday 1 September 2020.

At it’s meeting on on 3 March 2020 (SVG229/17) SVG confirmed they were happy for the CP to go straight to consultation phase and did not ask for any additional questions to be added to the CP Consultation.

CP1532 was raised by Elexon on 8 July 2020.  The Change Proposal has been raised on the back of Issue 86 ‘Review of processes potentially impacted by Ofgem’s Faster Switching Programme’