Ofgem are running a Settlement Reform workshop on 1 October 2018 and is inviting stakeholders to attend. Ofgem will present and discuss the emerging findings from its consultation on access to half-hourly data for Settlement purposes.

We are carrying out maintenance on BSC Central Systems from 23:00 (BST) 6 October 2018 to 05:00 (BST) 7 October 2018. This could result in temporary issues with connectivity.

We are carrying out IT system maintenance  between 12:00 (BST) and 16:00 (BST) on Thursday 11 October 2018. This is an Elexon IT systems outage and will not affect the BSC Central Systems.

UK time changes on Sunday 28 October will result in a ‘long’ day where there are 50 Settlement Periods instead of the standard 48.

During the period of planned downtime, the BMRS will not load or publish data via the website, APIs and Data Push Service.

In addition, users of the TIBCO service will not receive any TIBCO messages via their High Grade Communications Lines and European Transparency Regulation (ETR) data will not be sent to ENTSO-E Transparency Platform...

National Grid will be upgrading their systems between 09:00 and 14:00 on 8 November. During this time, Market Participants may experience connectivity issues with Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) which may affect Gate Closure Data (PN and BOD) submissions.

We have a provisional planned downtime affecting BSC Central Systems for the week commencing 12 November 2018. The date and time has yet to be confirmed.

Specific information will be published in a circular at least a week before the planned downtime takes place.

National Grid has informed us that there may be a short period of downtime on Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) on Tuesday 13 November 2018 between 10:00 – 12:00 (GMT).

Users will still be able to submit data via SFTP to MODIS during the downtime and this data will be processed normally during the...

There will be a planned outage of the Market Index Data Provider (MIDP) on Tuesday 13 November 2018 between 18:40 and 21:30 (GMT).

The Market Index Data used to calculate the Market Index Price (MIP) will not be provided to BSC Central Services by this MIDP during this outage.

The MIP is expected to default to...

There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 01:57 (GMT) to 09:15 (GMT) on Wednesday 14 November 2018.

This is the first of two BSC Agent downtimes required for the technology upgrade of the BSC Central Systems applications including: Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS); Energy Contract Volume...