Glossary

IT Notices: Planned National Grid ESO Outage on Saturday 4 February 2023

We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Generation Forecast files to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) and the Insights Solution from Saturday 4 February 17:00 GMT to Sunday 5 February 04:00 GMT.

What is happening?

We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Generation Forecast files to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) and the Insights Solution from Saturday 4 February 17:00 GMT to Sunday 5 February 04:00 GMT.

How will I be impacted?

During the outage window, the Insights Solution and the BMRS will not receive the following Generation Forecast files:

  • 2-14 Days Ahead Output Useable  
  • 2-52 Weeks Ahead Output Useable
  • 2-156 Weeks Ahead Output Usable
  • Generating Plant Demand Surplus
  • Generating Plant Demand Margin

BMRS

The BMRS will not publish the latest Generation forecasts, Surplus and Margin data across all endpoints including the BMRS website, APIs, Data Push and TIBCO.

Elexon Insights Solution

As above, the Insights Solution website, APIs and Insights Realtime Information Service (IRIS) will not include the latest Generation Forecast, Surplus and Margin data.

My BSC

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