Glossary

IT notices: Planned National Grid ESO Outage

National Grid ESO has informed us that there will be a planned Balancing Mechanism (BM) implementation outage from 10:10 to 15:40 (GMT) on Thursday 19 November (backup date Tuesday 24 November).

The BM outage will impact most of the data published on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS). Updates for the outage status will be posted on the System Warning page on the BMRS, before and after the planned outage.

Please be aware that the outage will involve a server switch over and Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) and Electronic Data Logging (EDL) IP addresses may require changing.

How will I be impacted?

National Grid ESO has advised us that the planned outage will affect:

  • EDT
  • EDL
  • Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD)
  • Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) communications

EDT and EDL

They have asked Parties to note that, from the start of the planned outage, both Trading and Control Points should not use EDT or EDL, as this will result in re-declarations being rejected with a R999 error message.

Likewise, when the systems are returning, re-declarations should not be submitted (although the EDL link may appear available) until a notification is issued confirming the end of the planned outage.

During the planned outage, balancing actions will be carried out by verbal instructions to Control Points and Control Points should therefore be made aware and prepared to take telephone instructions.

MODIS

As the MODIS system relies on BM information, the De-Rated Margin (DRM) and Loss of Load Probability (LoLP) files will not be sent and the remaining files will be queued until after the outage.

BSAD

The flow of BSAD (both DISBSAD and NETBSAD) to BSC Central Services will also be disrupted during this period and though the half-hourly indicative Settlement calculations will continue, they will use default data. The BMRS will not re-run indicative Settlement calculations on any impacted Settlement periods following the completion of this planned outage.

BMRS

Furthermore, during the outage, the BMRS data normally received from National Grid will not be updated via the BMRS website, APIs, Data Push Service and TIBCO. This includes REMIT and European Transparency Regulation (ETR) data sent from National Grid’s MODIS system and as a result, there will be a delay for BMRS in sending ETR to ENTSO-e Transparency Platform from BMRS.

Elexon Portal

Only Parties who currently submit their REMIT data via Elexon Portal will not be impacted by this outage and the data will continue to be published on BMRS as normal.

Do I need to take further action?

Any BSC Parties having questions for National Grid regarding this planned outage should phone 0800 917 7111 or 0800 085 4806. Overseas callers should call +44 870 521 6121 and quote “NETA EDT”.

All Trading Points should notify their Control Points of this BM outage to ensure that they are prepared to take telephone instructions, or submit dynamic data changes to the ENCC.

If you have any questions regarding impact on Settlement calculations or processes then please contact the BSC Service Desk.

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