Consultations for all Process, Operational and Credit areas

Further to the work on improving the quality of gas and electricity data, Ofgem has asked electricity and gas code administrators to establish an expert group (the Address Data Working Group (ADWG)) to look at address data. The objective is to explore potential options for harmonising address formats and utilising Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) to support the launch of a Centralised Registration Service (CRS). The purpose of this consultation is to seek the views of electricity and gas market participants and other interest parties in order to inform the ADWG’s final report and recommendations to Ofgem.

This consultation asks respondents to review the Risk Evaluation Register 2016/17, and to submit any comments to [email protected]. Responses to this consultation will be presented to the Performance Assurance Board meeting on 27 August 2015.

We invite your views on changing how we provide Charge Codes for light-emitting diode (LED) lighting products with Unmetered Supplies (UMS).
In the last two years we have issued over 3,000 UMS Charge Codes for LED street lights.
To mitigate this proliferation of LED Charge Codes, we propose to introduce new generic Charge Codes for LED lighting products and new supporting Switch Regimes for single-step dimming.
We invite your views on this, our proposed implementation approach and the appropriate implementation timescales.

We especially welcome views from Suppliers, UMS Operators, Meter Administrators, customers using LED lighting products with UMS (e.g. county councils, highways managers), providers of UMS inventory databases, providers of UMS Central Management Systems and manufacturers of LED lighting products.

The Code Administration Code of Practice (CACoP) defines 12 high level principles that that electricity and gas Code Administrators should follow to help protect the interests of small market participants and consumers. The Code Panels propose to add a new principle on cross Code coordination to the existing CACoP.

This consultation invites market participants and any other interested parties to provide their views on the draft of this principle by 19 June 2015.

Elexon has received a new GSP registration application from the Transmission Company, Northern Powergrid. It is constructing a new Grid Supply Point in Knaresborough, to be known as Knaresborough GSP.
The Transmission Company propose that GSP_KNAR is allocated to the North East (_F) GSP Group. Respondents’ views are sought when assessing the GSP_KNAR (Knaresborough) GSP Registration.

This consultation asks respondents to review the Risk Evaluation Methodology 2016/17, and to submit any comments to [email protected]. Responses to this consultation will be presented to the Performance Assurance Board meeting on 23 April 2015.

This consultation asks respondents to comment on the Within Period Revision to the Risk Evaluation Register 2014/15. We are proposing to increase the net significance of Settlement Risk 0081 ‘The risk that HHDCs do not process valid HH readings resulting in estimated data being entered into Settlement’. Please submit any comments to [email protected]. Responses to this consultation will be presented to the Performance Assurance Board meeting on 26 February 2015.

The Credit Assessment Price (CAP) is used in the Energy Indebtedness calculations to convert Credit Cover into an energy value. We are consulting on a reduction to the (CAP) to £49/MWh from the current value of £55/MWh. A change to CAP can impact the amount of Credit Cover required by a Trading Party.