On 7 May 2024, the Supplier Volume Allocation Group (SVG) and Imbalance Settlement Group (ISG) approved BSC Change Proposal (CP) CP1594 ‘Creating an Approval Process for New and Legacy Communication Types’ for implementation on 27 June 2024 as part of the standard June 2024 Release. Read more
Industry Change
Notice of Implementation: R0150 – On-Site Aggregation as a Method to Facilitate Third Party Access (BSC P455)
On 08 May 2024, the Metering Expert Panel voted to approve Change Proposal R0150 – Onsite Aggregation as a Method to Facilitate Third Party Access (BSC P455), subject to BSC Modification P455 being approved. Read more
Central Products List (CPL) Version v3.004 01/05/2024 now published on SEC Website
Please note, Version 3.004 of the Central Products List (CPL) is now available. The new workbook can be downloaded here.
Change Summary
- One SMETS2 GSME and three SMETS1 PPMIDs added.
SEC Section F2.9 ‘Publication and Use by the DCC’
Subject to the requirements of the CPL Requirements Document, the DCC shall, from time to time, use and rely upon the Central Products List most recently received by the DCC from the Panel at that time, provided that the DCC shall be allowed up to 24 hours from receipt to make any modifications to the Smart Metering Inventory that are necessary to reflect the updated Central Products List.
As per the above, SEC Section F2.9 is now in effect.
Code Roadmap Relaunch
The REC are pleased to announce the refreshed version of the REC Code Roadmap is now available. It presents the priority work items that the REC Code Manager is delivering now and in the near future that are resulting, or could result, in changes to the REC.
Sandbox and Derogation Update
At the Performance Assurance Board (PAB) meeting held on 30 April 2024, the REC Change Management Team presented an update on R0152 – Revision to the Consolidated Metering Code of Practice (CoMCoP) progress. The PAB agreed the following:
Central Products List (CPL) Version v3.003 25/04/2024 now published on SEC Website
Please note, Version 3.003 of the Central Products List (CPL) is now available.
SEC Working Group 01 May 2024
SEC’s next monthly Working Group meeting will be on 1 May 2024, starting at 10:00.
Central Products List (CPL) Version v3.002 now published on SEC Website
Please note, Version 3.002 of the Central Products List (CPL) is now available.
SGN announces delay to hydrogen for heating trial
SGN has announced a delay to its flagship hydrogen for heating project in Scotland. The gas network said that the H100 Fife project is “taking longer than planned” due to supply chain and procurement challenges.
CSS Disaster Recovery Testing
IT disaster recovery testing of the Central Switching Service (CSS) is to be conducted in the Pre-Production test environment, from late April 2024 until early May 2024. Pre-Production is aligned to the Production environment and failover and failback service between the two Azure Regions in pre-production will therefore be representative of what would happen in Production.
There will be no outage to CSS related to this testing. Pre-production testing will ensure recovery procedures can be rehearsed and validated without impact to service users. Testing will also support further analysis of the potential impacts of synchronisation lags between Azure Regions on data to ensure that future incidents can be responded to efficiently and effectively.
If you have any questions or queries about the testing, please contact bcdrteam@smartdcc.co.uk or cssservicedesk@smartdcc.co.uk.