igg agenda – 14 th august 2008

1IGGIGGIGGIGG Industry Governance GroupSecretariat:Secretariat: RMDS RMDS www.rmdservice.com

IGG Agenda – 14th August 2008

• Minutes from last IGG meeting 10.00 - 10.10• Review of Action Items 10.10 - 10.20• CER Update 10.20 - 10.35• Market Operations Update 10.35 - 10.45• Address Data Standards Update 10.45 - 11.00

• Retail Market Design Service Update 11.00 -

11.15• Market Design Update 11.15- 11.30• Next Steps 11.30 - 11.40


Minutes

Minutes from IGG meeting – 26th June 2008


IGG Action Items

Closed IGG Actions• Updated IGG Action List

issued in advance of meeting

• 20 Actions closed since last meeting:

35 IGG Actions carried forward:

Owner June 26th August 14th

Suppliers

8 7

RMDS 19 19

MRSO 0 2

ESBN 1 4

CER 8 3

Total 36 35


Supplier Open IGG Actions

AP Number Title Due Date

298Suppliers to feedback any issues they might have with the current unmetered lighting processes to CER.

326Suppliers to review and prioritise the revised list of outstanding MCRs for future releases by the next IGG June 26th. 26/06/2008

333Market Participants to give feedback on the proposed Generator screen layouts and what Generator fields are required IGG (Slides 25, 26, 27)

29/05/2008

335Market Participants to provide feedback on Working Practice 13 (Duplicate MPRNs) by May 29th. 29/05/2008

350Participants to give feedback on the outage dates of August 3rd, August 17th, August 31st, October 5th 2008 and the major outage for April 2009.

10/07/2008

361Suppliers to give feedback on the Retail Market Schema Release Process

03/07/2008

362Suppliers to give feedback on the Emergency Schema Release Process

10/07/2008

Looking for approval to close these Supplier actions that have passed their due date


CER Update


Market Operations Update

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Data StandardsAddress and Customer Name

C. Gaffney, RMDS


AP Number Address Actions from Workshop

241Amend the Data Standards document to enforce tighter controls on the use of Customer Name for a Person and an Organisation.

242Issue to participants the high level Athanor business rules for address matching.

243Explore the possibility of capturing updated meter point address data from the CoS process to allow updating of the site address

244Provide mapping rules for the mapping of the Customer Name field for a Person or Organisation.

245Investigate the feasibility of making some of the Address and Customer Name fields mandatory.

246Provide guidelines on the usage and importance of the Technical Contact address for outages and the communication of network charges.

247Find out if the Notification and / or Technical Contact address is being used as part of the Outage Management System (OMS)


AP Number Address Actions from Workshop

248Compile and agree a more comprehensive list of standard address abbreviations.

249 Add backslash House Number rule to the guidelines.

250 Provide additional guidelines for entering estate names and streets.

251Provide guidelines for entering apartment block information into an address for new and existing apartments.

252Produce a single page Job Aid indicating the address data guidelines to be followed and publish this Job Aid on the RMDS website

253Distribute the print rules for suppressing the City/County field where the City and County contain the same value.

254Compile a list of reject Reason codes to be distributed as an appendix to the address Job Aid.

255Add guidelines to the Customer Name to exclude the use of NEW OCCUPIER or NO OCCUPIER entries.

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Retail Market Design Service Update

C. Madden, RMDS


RMDS Update

Agenda• Recalculation of Estimates• Assurance Update

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Discussion Requests & Market Change Requests

Cormac Madden, RMDS


Market Change Request

DR 112 New MPD 37 Market Process for New Transmission Connected site

• Meetings held with EirGrid• Processes split into two streams

• Demand Site• Generation Site



DR 0156 v2.0 – Recalculation of Estimates

• Link to DUoS price change removed

• AUF instead of EUF

• CoS read treated as an actual read

Planned release date : 18.08.08



MCR 0164 – Including the Meter Multiplier on the Extranet

• Circulated to the market

• Approval Requested


Discussion Request

DR 0159 – Addition of 331MM to notify of QH meter removal during QH de-energisation with meter removal process

• Circulated to the market• Feedback Received • Updated version to be circulated


Discussion Request

DR 0158 - Addition of Generator Unit ID and Export Arrangement ID to Extranet

• Circulated to the market• Any Feedback• Approval to progress to MCR


Discussion Request

DR 0157 - Addition of Vulnerable Customer data deletion flag on 102

• Circulated to the market• Any Feedback• Approval to progress to MCR


Code Change Request

CCR 002 -16 new code values to join the existing Meter Category codes.

• To add an additional 16 values to the Meter Category field specific to smart metering.

• Circulated to the market • Any Feedback• Approval



MCR 0073 – Proposal to make first name mandatory on market messages

• Dates back to early 2006• Approved but not implemented• Not on Current Outstanding List• Feedback



MCR 0080 – Remove Meter Point Status Field from 017 Message

• Dates back to early 2006• Approved but not Implemented• Not on Current Outstanding List• Feedback


SoLR Working Practice

The Working practice will cater for1. Energised sites2. De-energised sites3. Pending registrations with associated re-

energisations (New Connections)4. Pending CoS to the defaulting supplier5. Outstanding Service Orders

• Re-energisations• Meter Works• De-energisations


Release Planning - Outstanding MCRs

MCR Number MCR Description

MCR 0033 Sending 306 for all NQH De-energisations

MCR 0034 Sending 307 for all NQH Re-energisations

MCR 0060 New Message to contain customer details on conversion from NQH to QH 1.1

MCR 0062 New rules for MPD 1 - CoS

MCR 0069 Irish language character set

MCR 0078 Add Validation to use of Registered Company Number

MCR 0081 Suppliers Extranet shows Non billable devices where installed

MCR 0087 Exchanged Meter Ref amendment to provide only for like for like exchanges

MCR 0126 Rejection of change of usage requests DG5 to 1 or 2 where MIC is greater than 30 v1.0

MCR 0127 Decouple Connection Agreement and CoS where no COLE

MCR 0130 Extra validation check required at creation of 306 and 307 messages v2.0

MCR 0152 Vulnerable Customers - Phase 3

MCR 0154 Versioning of 341 message

MCR 0157 Proposal to add Acceptance / Completion / Cancellation message to Meter Works Design

Completing Design

Completing Design

For TUoS

New market rule

Irish Language Act

Reduce residual CA on CoS issue

Completing Design

Better mkt function

Speed up response

Automation

Better mkt function

Better mkt function

Better mkt function

Automation + better function

(Impose 20 day time limit on replacement of CoS reads)


Release Planning - Outstanding MCRs

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MCR Number MCR Description

MCR 0161 Increasing the threshold for connection agreements in CoS process

MCR 0162 SoLR process

MCR 0163 Increase in tolerance levels for NQH Meter Reading Validation


IGG Action 323 - RMDS to document an Emergency Schema release process.

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Testing carried out and

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ESBN Delivery Manager requests an

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RMDS inform the market about the schema delivery

Schema tested and released to

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RMDS give regular Schema

updates

SAP ISC amend the Market system

to facilitate the MCR

ESBN Delivery Manager prepares a presentation for the Emergency release

All Stakeholders approve the

MCR

Participants install new

schema and carry out IPT tests

Market Participants

receive Direction

RMDS prepares communicates

and co-ordinates Cutover Plan

RMDS adds theCER Direction, MCR approval andImpact Assessment

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Go LIVE with new Schema

ESBN Delivery Manager gives

regular Progress updates

ESBN Delivery Manager assigns

resources and delivers on the MCR

RMDS fast tracks an MCR to cover the

Emergency release

SAP ISC provides detail of costs timelines and

resources

Cutover resources and

support provided


support provided

RMDS facilitates IPT

testing

CER approves the Budget

ESBN Delivery Manager sends detailed costs to CER for approval


support provided


support provided

Government / EU implements new

legislation which requires an emergency schema

change.

CER issues a Direction and

timelines to support the new legislation

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RMDS request an impact

assessment

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Market Participants review the proposed

MCR and provide Feedback

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IncludeOtherMCRs

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IGG agree on the additional MCRs to be included

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IGG Action 188 Document the measures that will be used to detect issues with future schema changes.

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Schema Release date and Content

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RMDS request a draft of the new

schema and forward a list of

Change Requests to be implemented

Participants receive Draft

Schema

Participants receive sample

messages

Sample Messages

compiled for changed

messages

Sample Messages released to Particpants

Draft Schema released along with a

note outlining the implemented MCRs

Hub Team prepare and test the Draft

Schema (5 months prior to Go Live)

Hub Team Release the final validated Schema on CD (3 months prior

to Go Live)

Schema comparisons carried out

End to End System and

Message Testing carried out

RMDS issue final schema

Participants install

Schema

RMDS co-ordinate IPT testing with particpants

Participants gather IPT evidence and

submit to Gemserv

Gemserv assess IPT evidence

Log change request on

Test Director

Change Required

Inform RMDS about the

schema change

Communicate schema change

to Market Participants

Participants are informed about

the schema change

Testing completed and

defects resolved

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Report issued to

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Advise Participants that the Schema release proceeds

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Draft Schema release signed

off and approved

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Final Schema release signed

off and approved

System Testing signed off and

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RMDS request an Assurance

Plan

Assurance Body prepare the

Assurance Plan

Participants receive the

Assurance Plan

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13RMDS issue the Assurance Plan

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Next Steps

• Proposed Diary dates for IGG meetings in 2008: – 18.09.2008– 30.10.2008– 11.12.2008– 22.01.2009

– Proposed dates are on Calendar of Events on RMDS website


Next Steps

• Propose to continue with conference call every two weeks:

- 28.08.08- 11.09.08

• Call details have new contingency PIN No:– Number: 01-6647602 PIN : 77640 – Contingency number remains: 01-6647777 New PIN:

80490


Thank You

igg agenda – 14 th august 2008

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