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View Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Winter 2024 BSC Season

Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Winter 2024 BSC Season

The Winter BSC Season begins on 1 December and if you are using the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution, the deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the Season is 14 November 2024.

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View P480 Report Phase Consultation Publication of regional demand forecast data to fulfil ESRS Reporting requirements

P480 Report Phase Consultation Publication of regional demand forecast data to fulfil ESRS Reporting requirements

P480 seeks to facilitate the Electricity System Restoration Standard (ESRS) requirements to publish the day-ahead peak demand forecast for each restoration region and the demand restored in each restoration region published hourly during a System Restoration on BMRS (Elexon’s Insights Solution Platform). P480 is a consequential Modification to GC0156 ‘Facilitating the Implementation of the Electricity System Restoration Standard’.

This Proposed Solution is to make changes to BSC system and BSC Section Q ‘Balancing Mechanism Activities’ and Code Subsidiary Documents to implement these provisions outlined in GC0156. 

View Urgent Modification Consultation for P482: Enable flexible splitting of BSC Agent services and establishing contracts for MHHS Delivery

Urgent Modification Consultation for P482: Enable flexible splitting of BSC Agent services and establishing contracts for MHHS Delivery

To support the transition to Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS), Elexon must sign BSC Agent contracts for the operation of new services. This Modification seeks to allow more flexibility in the requirements for procurement of BSC Agents for the SVAA services at MHHS go-live. It will provide the option of having these new MHHS systems operated by the service providers who developed them, while the currently appointed Supplier Volume Allocation Agent (SVAA) continues to operate legacy processes

View CP1592 Implementation Phase Consultation to Upgrade of NHHDA and EAC/AA systems

CP1592 Implementation Phase Consultation to Upgrade of NHHDA and EAC/AA systems

The current versions of NHHDA (Non Half Hourly Data Aggregation) and EAC/AA (Estimation of Annual Consumption/Annualised Advance) system applications that Elexon provides to Party Agents run on Oracle 12c, for which Oracle Corporation withdrew application support in 2022. 

This CP proposes to upgrade EAC/AA and NHHDA to the latest available version of Oracle 19.21. Where possible, it leverages cost savings by aligning with Elexon’s planned update to other BSC central systems

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