IT Notices: Planned National Grid ESO work impacting EDT and EDL communications
We have been informed by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that it will be carrying out essential planned infrastructure maintenance activities that will impact the Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) and Electronic Data Logging (EDL) network connections in January on the following dates:
- Tuesday 24 January 2023
- Thursday 26 January 2023
EDT and EDL network connections may be affected on each day between 10:00 and 16:00 (GMT).
What is happening?
We have been informed by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that it will be carrying out essential planned infrastructure maintenance activities that will impact the Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) and Electronic Data Logging (EDL) network connections in January on the following dates:
- Tuesday 24 January 2023
- Thursday 26 January 2023
EDT and EDL network connections may be affected on each day between 10:00 and 16:00 (GMT). Parties affected on the first day may not be affected on the second date and vice versa.
Please be aware that any scheduled outage is subject to system conditions on the day and may be vetoed by the control room.
How will I be impacted?
These works could interrupt EDL and EDT connectivity for short period of time on each date. It is expected that approximately half of all EDT and EDL connections will be impacted on each day depending on the resilience set up of the station. If a party loses connectivity to EDL or EDT, they should try using the reserve connection or to retry a short while later.
Please make your IT teams responsible for EDT and EDL communications aware of this planned work, and make your control points aware that they may need to take telephone instructions from the ENCC.
Do I need to take any further action?
Any BSC Parties with questions for National Grid regarding this planned outage should phone 0800 917 7111 or 0800 085 4806. Overseas callers should use +44 870 521 6121 and quote “NETA EDT”.
All Trading Points should notify their Control Points of this planned work 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.