There will be a period of planned downtime for the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) between 17:00 (BST) and 18:00 (BST) on Tuesday 24 October 2017.

ELEXON has been advised by one of the Market Index Data Providers (MIDPs), EPEX SPOT power UK, of a planned outage due to take place on Tuesday 24 October 2017 between 18:30 (BST) and 21:30 (BST).

An error was identified in the System Operator (SO) flagging of Balancing Services Adjustment Actions (BSAA) for the Settlement Date 24 June 2017. As a result eight System Prices on this day have been recalculated at the R2 Settlement Run.

UK time changes on Sunday 29 October 2017 from British Summer Time (BST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at 02:00 (BST). This will result in a ‘long’ day as the clocks ‘go back’ an hour.

In accordance with the provisions of the BSC a meeting of the Panel was convened at 10:00 on 12 October 2017.

The Panel noted that the Defaulting Party is in Default under Section H3.1.1(g)(iv) of the BSC in that on 25 September 2017, an administrator was appointed in relation to the Defaulting Party.

National Grid has informed us that there will be a period of planned downtime on MODIS (Market Operation Data Interface System) on Monday 16 October 2017 between 13:00 (BST) and 16:30 (BST).

IT system maintenance will take place between 12:00 (BST) and 18:00 (BST) on Friday 13 October 2017.

This is an ELEXON IT systems outage and will not affect the BSC Central Systems.

We have been notified by National Grid that there will be a Balancing Mechanism (BM) planned outage between 10:10 (BST) and 13:10 (BST) on Thursday 12 October 2017. Updates will be posted on the System Warning page on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) before and after the planned outage. The planned outage will affect Electronic Data Transfer (EDT), Electronic Data Logging (EDL), Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) and Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) communications.

There will be planned downtime for the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) between 17:00 (BST) and 18:00 (BST) on Monday 9 October 2017. During this downtime there will be a delay in receiving, loading and publishing data on the BMRS website as well as via the API and Data Push services. In addition users of the TIBCO service will see a delay in the publishing of TIBCO messages via their High Grade Communications Lines.

During this downtime there will be a delay in the data sent to ENTSO-E Transparency Platform from BMRS. However, you can continue to submit REMIT data via the ELEXON Portal during this planned downtime, where the data will be accepted, queued and sent in sequence, although these files will be delayed by this planned downtime.

National Grid has informed us that there will be a period of planned downtime on MODIS (Market Operation Data Interface System) on Wednesday 27 September 2017 between 13:00 (BST) and 16:30 (BST).  Half hourly LoLP and DRM data publication is likely to be affected for some or all of this outage period. Any affected runs will not be published retrospectively, which is in accordance with the BSC.