Retail Markets Co-Ordination Working Group · Update COBL Spreadsheet Data Code Data Items “Senders ID” as follows: ... The proposal is to create a new type of Market Entrant

Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS

Retail Markets Co-Ordination

Working Group

Wednesday, 13th May, 2015

CER Offices

Dublin


ReMCoWG Agenda

Agenda Item Presenter Time

Introduction Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:00 – 13:05

ReMCoSG Meeting Feedback Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:05 – 13:10

Tibco Hub/EMMA Update Carmel O’Connor, ESBN 13:10 – 13.25

Smart Metering Update Michael Moloney, Smart

Metering

13:25 – 13:40

Market Design Update Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:40 – 13:50

ReMCoWG To-Do List Review Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:50 – 13:55

AOB & Closing Jessica Gregory ReMCoDS 13:55 – 14:00


Approval of Minutes

Minutes from ReMCoWG meeting

4th March 2015


Update from ReMCoSG Meeting

No ReMCoSG Meeting since last ReMCoWG

Next SG scheduled 24th June 2015

13th May 2015

Retail Market Design Service

ReMCoWG Action Items

13th May 2015

• Updated ReMCoWG Action List issued in advance of meeting

• 1 Action still open since last ReMCoWG meeting.

AP No. Title

Org.

Assigned to Date Due Date Raised

132 ReMCoSG to give formal response to SSE Airtricity to why TIBCO Upgrade project

was put on hold. ReMCoDS to forward this request to the ReMCoSG. ReMCoDS/SG 13/05/2015 04/03/2015

ReMCoWG

13 May 2015

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AGENDA

• Recent Events

• Future Plans

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Recent Events

• Maintain operational stability

– No major events since the last meeting

– There were 21 contingency events since the last meeting

• Supplier EMMA housekeeping

- Suppliers are reminded to continue their EMMA housekeeping and to keep

ESB/NIE updated with any possible IT impacts in advance

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Recent Events

Start Date End Date Planned Contingency

Invoked Comments Supplier

26/02/2015 26/02/2015 N Y Supplier connectivity issue Supplier 1

05/03/2015 05/03/2015 Y Y Supplier Security Patching Supplier 2





28/03/2015 29/03/2015 Y Y DR Testing Supplier 7

28/03/2015 29/03/2015 Y Y DR Testing Supplier 8




02/04/2015 02/04/2015 Y Y Server reboot Supplier 2





20/04/2015 21/04/2015 Y Y Server reboot Supplier 9



30/04/2015 01/05/2015 N Y Network Issue Supplier 8


No. of Planned Outages No. of Unplanned

Outages

No. of times Contingency

Invoked

8 13 21

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Recent work - IDOC Reconciliation

After the issues post harmonisation MPs requested a more robust reconciliation method from

SAP through the Hub to the EMMA. With all the work required to stabilise TIBCO this request

was one of the last issues to be addressed. In March 2015 a new reconciliation process went

live after 6 months of work.

• The new tool compares actual IDOC or TX ref numbers

• The new tool identifies the IDOC number that has not been completed and will assign a

reason for why it hasn’t completed

– Invalid – This means it has failed Schema validation

– Incomplete – this means it has reached the HUB but may have got stuck in queue or a validation

process. It could also be a timing issue and it could clear the next time the tool is refreshed.

– Missing – this means it hasn’t reached the HUB and needs to be investigated

– The report will also tell us if a supplier is in contingency.

• The new tool will not purge a missing, invalid or incomplete IDOC number until it is

completed on the hub or in the event of a new message issuing it is resolved (the user can

mark it as such). As a result the DNO should always have a picture of what hasn’t

completed on the HUB up to a point in time each day. The tool will tell how long the

message has been outstanding.

• The new IDOC reconciliation process is working in both ESBN and NIE

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Future Plans

• Outage Dates:

• 30th May – TIBCO outage from 8am – 12pm (4 hours)

• The third Sunday is not being utilised this month

• The last Saturday had to be utilised as the work requires an external

contractor to be on site.

• The next available date for the contractor was July

• As the essential work relates to Disaster Recovery it was considered prudent

to go ahead on the first available date

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TIBCO Upgrade - Current Status

• Project fully up and running since Monday, March 2nd

• Project Go-Live/Cutover planned for w/e 20 November 2015

• First of a number of Supplier engagements was held on May 7th

• EMMA Technical specs to be available by the end of May but draft

specs are a good guideline for a MP to start investigations

• Market Assurance approach and test scenarios to be available by the

end of May

• Suppliers are requested to participate fully within the timelines

requested in order to meet the ambitious Nov 20th cutover date

• We request the full support of any Suppliers asked to participate in

Performance Testing

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Questions?

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13th May, 2015

Update on Approach to delivery of SMART

Retail Market Changes - ReMCoWG

Smart Metering Programme

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To Provide:

An update on progress on the delivery of Smart Retail Market

Changes

Objective Today

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Recap High Level Overview of Approach

●Under Smart Metering Programme, CER has asked ESB Networks to lead industry

workshops in 2014/15 to progress this deliverable

●‘Business as usual’ approach is not valid

- First Major project where changes are required to the Coordinated Baseline

●Approach reviewed with RMDS

●Industry workshops estimated to take 6 months

- High Level Design (November’14 – January’15)

- MPD/Schema Level (February-May)

●Discussion Request(s)/ Market Change Request(s) submitted to industry change

control and governance mechanism in Q2 2015

- Exceptional Working Group Meeting to approve Smart Discussion Request(s)

•‘Status Updates’ for Industry Change Control & Governance Groups

- Updates at ReMCoWG Meetings

• Output: Market Change Request(s) containing approved schema and retail market

changes to the Co-ordinated Baseline supporting SMART Metering

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Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 15 Jun 15

Status Update - Industry Workshops

Nov 14 Dec14 Jan15

High

Level 1

(25th)

High

Level 2

(18th)

High

Level 3

(22nd)

DP&DA 1

(11th)

DP&DA 2

(25th)

CDC 1

(18th)

MW 1

(18th)

CoS 1

(11th)

CDC 2

(5th)

CoS 2

(25th)

E2E 1

(22nd)

NC 1

(15th)

MW 2

(1st)

NC 2

(29th)

E2E 2

(6th)

NSMP Baseline

DRs Version 1.0

13th May

High Level

Design

Schema Level

Design

Submit

DRs V1.0 to

ReMCoWG

(Date TBC)

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Status Update

● Completed the scheduled workshops

– Thanks to all as schedule was onerous

● Substantive ROI & NI input to process

– Good attendance, active participation & detailed feedback

– Comprehensive Review & Input from NIE

– Thanks to all for that input

● A small number of Open Action Items for progressing in the NSMP

● 5 draft DRs for baselining in the NSMP

– One per MPD Group (Data Processing & Aggregation, Customer Data Changes, Change of Supplier,

Meter Works & New Connections)

● Only Minor Changes to ‘High Level Overview of Smart Retail Market Changes’

presented at ReMCoWG and CDA meetings on 4th March

– e.g. 1 Additional MPD affected & 1 Additional Market Message Required

– Meeting to brief details can be facilitated, if required

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Next Steps

●Progress the Open Action items

●Baseline at Version 1.0 the Discussion Requests

●Submit for Approval Version 1 Discussion Requests/Market Change Requests to

ReMCoWG in June ( Date TBC)

– In advance, it is important that ReMCoWG members liase with their representatives who were

involved in the Schema Level Design

Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS 13th May 2015

Retail Market Design Update

Jessica Gregory

ReMCoDS

Retail Markets Co-Ordination Design Service ReMCoDS 13TH May 2015

CoBLCR 010 – New Supplier ID

CoBLCR 010 is being proposed by NI.

Two new Supplier Ids for inclusion in COBL.

Update COBL Spreadsheet Data Code Data Items “Senders ID” as

follows: Add S42 with description “Open Electric”. Valid in NI & not Valid in ROI

Add S43 with description “Click Energy NI” Valid in NI & not Valid in ROI

Sender ID/Supplier ID needs to change in all messages.

Changes will be applied to the CoBL during a Co-MMR later in the year.

At Today’s Meeting:

Recommendation for Approval by WG


DR 1165 V1.0 – Market Design Process Diagrams –

conversion from ARIS to document format

13th May 2015

In 2013 a decision was made to exit from ARIS as BPM for Market Design.

Project involves converting all Market Documentation from ARIS platform to

Visio/Word platform and publishing directly on the RMDS website.

The project is being delivered in stages with a new DR for each stage.

DR 1165 is for the approval of the final 11 MPDs completing the conversion

project

As these MPDs were being drafted and converted there were some

corrections identified – these are highlighted in the DR and also recorded in

the History of Changes for each MPD.

This DR contains an embedded Conversion Project Close Out Document

detailing the entirety of the conversion project. It contains a full document

cross reference showing where documents and items previously held in

ARIS can now be found on the RMDS website.

At Today’s Meeting: To be Classified as RoI Specific.

Recommendation for Approval as a DR and fast track to MCR requested at IGG


DR 1166 V1.0 - Export Only Supplier

Currently there are three categories of Suppliers with the Irish Retail

Electricity Market(Self Supplier, Large Supplier and Small Supplier).

The proposal is to create a new type of Market Entrant Category within

the Retail Market, this Supplier category would be termed “Export Only

Supplier”.

Up to 10 Export deminimus/non participant sites can be registered under

the single Supplier Unit.

If an Export Only Supplier wished to increase the number of export sites

to beyond 10 they would be required to requalify to procure and

implement the EMMA/TIBCO messaging infrastructure. This would

require requalification, assurance and IPT.

The Scope of Change to Design Documentation relates to amendments

to the Market Assurance and Market Entry Documentation..

At Today’s Meeting: To be Classified as RoI Specific.

Recommendation for Approval as a DR.

13th May 2015


Market Releases

TIBCO / Schema Release 2015

High Level Assurance Plan

Area Assurance Strategy WG approval SG approval Publicised

Schema

Release

Co-ordinated Assurance Strategy being drafted &

reviewed by Assurance Team 20-22 May 2015 27-29 May 2015 By 31 May 2015

TIBCO

Strategy Implement Evaluate RA

Review Go Live

November June May October


TIBCO/Schema Release Assurance

12th June 2013

Co-ordinated Assurance Strategy

ROI

Assurance

Activities

NI

Assurance

Activities

Final Co-ordinated Assurance

Report

ROI

Evaluation

NI

Evaluation

CER NIAUR

Go Live yes yes

Single Assurance

Strategy for NI/ROI

TIBCO & Schema Release

Assured separately

Aligned assurance evaluation

criteria for TIBCO but could

differ for schema Release

WG & SG have to sign off

on assurance strategy

Joint jurisdictional MP’s may

have to run tests for both

assurance bodies

ReMCoDS co-ordinates all

Assurance activity for the

release.

Assurance Team:

• ReMCoDS

• Gemserv

• Neueda

• RMDS

• CDA


2014 ReMCoDS Survey

13th May 2015

8 Responses

Survey Period from 13th February to 13th March 2015

36 MPs were invited with 8 Complete Responses delivering a response rate of 22.2%

100% of respondents were satisfied with the Outage Management and

Communication of both Planned and Un-planned Co-ordinated Market Outages.

(Q13&14).

100% were satisfied with the new sequence of the Forum Meetings and the time to

prepare for them (Q16,18&19)

All respondents rated ReMCoDS role and involvement in recent workshops as Very

Good or Good (Q11)

Respondents rated the content of the Co-ordinated webpages Very Good or Good

(Q25), 87.5% found it easy to find documents (Q26) with 87.5% finding navigation

Very Easy or Easy (Q24)

Only 25% of MPs were in favour of a separate ReMCoDS website


2014 ReMCoDS Survey

13th May 2015

Actions

Encourage NI Only suppliers to respond

Double the response rate of the survey

An explanation of the DR/MCR process was given at the IGG Forum in

September 2014. A reminder of this could be made to a future ReMCoWG

meeting together with the placing of an overview document on the RMDS

Website

Engage with Suppliers who do not attend the Working Group Forum to

establish their exact reason(s) for non-attendance

In the next survey we would like to get more understanding of any other

support ReMCoDS can provide to the Co-ordinated Market

Broaden the response choices available where suitable

Next Survey

Proposed January 2016.


Other

13th May 2015

RMDS Website - Private/Sensitive Information

RMDS is in the process of building a private website which will sit behind their

existing website.

Due for delivery 22nd May 2015

It will function similarly to the Smart Metering private site which RMDS built.

Private document repository

Private project/working information pages

Login/password required per organisation and administered by RMDS.

RMDS will run an access exercise in the next few weeks for all Participants.

Private ReMCoDS documents can also be housed on the website.


Next Steps

13th May 2015

Diary dates for next ReMCoWG meeting:

Wednesday 8th July 2015 - Belfast Dates included on Calendar of Events on RMDS website

www.rmdservice.com

http://www.rmdservice.com/


13th May 2015

ReMCoWG Meeting

AOB


13th May 2015

Thank You

ReMCoWG Meeting

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Retail Markets Co-Ordination Working Group · Update COBL Spreadsheet Data Code Data Items “Senders ID” as follows: ... The proposal is to create a new type of Market Entrant