ELEXON Circulars
ELEXON publishes and sends out Circulars when key information about the BSC or operational activities needs to be communicated to our customers. You can subscribe to the Circulars from the header area of this website.
EL02968 : Planned National Grid infrastructure upgrade on Sunday 24 March 2019
National Grid Electricity System Operator has informed us that there will be an infrastructure upgrade on their systems between 02:10 (GMT) and 02:55 (GMT) on Sunday 24 March 2019.
EL02967 : Infrastructure maintenance on BSC Central Systems and ELEXON Portal
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 17:00 (GMT) to 23:59 (GMT) on Wednesday 27 March 2019. This outage is required for the infrastructure maintenance of the BSC Central Systems.
EL02966 : Expulsion Notice for Defaulting Party – Economy Energy Supply Limited
An Expulsion Notice has been sent to Economy Energy Supply Limited in accordance with Section A5 of the BSC advising the Expulsion Date is 13 April 2019.
EL02965 : Decrease in the Credit Assessment Price (CAP) to £48/MWh, effective from Tuesday 9 April 2019
On Tuesday 9 April 2019 the CAP value will decrease to £48/MWh, from the current value of £56/MWh
EL02964 : RESOLVED - Incident affecting TIBCO Subscribers
Further to ELEXON Circular EL02961, the incident affecting users of the TIBCO Service is now resolved.
EL02963 : Appointment of SSE Electricity Limited as the Supplier of Last Resort for Brilliant Energy Supply Limited
Today, Thursday 14 March 2019, Ofgem revoked the Supplier license for Brilliant Energy Supply Limited (Party ID: NICKEL). SSE Electricity Limited (Party ID: SWEL) has been appointed as the Supplier of Last Resort for the customers of Brilliant Energy Supply Limited.
EL02962 : Default of BSC – Brilliant Energy Supply Limited and Party ID: NICKEL
This document sets out the resolutions made by the BSC Panel in relation to Brilliant Energy Supply Limited (company number 09263540, BSC Party ID ‘NICKEL’) (“the Defaulting Party”) under Section H3.2.1 of the Balancing and Settlement Code (“BSC”). Provision of a copy of this document to a BSC Party shall constitute notification to that BSC Party of the decisions of the Panel, and shall also constitute notification to that BSC Party of the Default pursuant to BSC H3.2.1(a).
EL02961: Incident affecting TIBCO Subscribers
Since yesterday, some subscribers of the TIBCO service have been experiencing issues receiving data via their High Grade service. Currently we believe there is a conflict between ELEXON’s and participants’ configuration at the server level. Until the incident is resolved, the impacted users will not receive the TIBCO data.
EL02960 : CLOSED: Credit Committee meeting to be held following closure of Credit Assessment Price consultation
A Credit Committee meeting will be held following the closure of the Credit Assessment Price (CAP) consultation, to decide if the Credit Assessment Price should be revised.
EL02959 : Treatment of Volume Notifications on the ‘short’ clock change day: Sunday 31 March 2019
UK time changes on Sunday 31 March 2019 from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to British Summer Time (BST) at 01:00 (GMT). This will result in a ‘short’ day as the clocks go forward an hour.
On a ‘short’ clock change day, there are only 46 Settlement Periods instead of the normal 48.