Supplier Volume Allocation Agency User Requirements Specification
Synopsis | This document describes the requirements for a system which supports the Initial volume allocation and subsequent reconciliation between Suppliers, by adjusting Suppliers’ energy volumes as meter data becomes available to replace estimates used in Initial Settlement. |
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Date | Version | Details of Change | Panel Committee Refs |
26 June 2008 | 11.0 | CP1209 | |
1 August 2014 | 12.0 | Document rebadged and updated for ORD005 – Electricity Market Reform. Directed by the Secretary of State. | Secretary of State |
26 February 2015 | 13.0 | CP1418 – February 2015 Release | SVG163/06 |
5 November 2015 | 14.0 | P300, P305 – November 2015 Release | SVG177/03 |
30 June 2016 | 15.0 | P315, June 2016 Release | SVG184/02 |
2 November 2017 | 16.0 | CP1478, November 2017 Release | SVG193/05 |
| | CP1484 November 2017 Release | Panel 266/06 |
28 February 2019 | 17.0 | P344 – February 2019 Release | Panel 284C/01 |
29 March 2019 | 18.0 | P369 – March 2019 Standalone Release | Panel 285/12 |
11 December 2019 | 19.0 | 11 December 2019 Standalone Release – CP1517 | SVG224/02 |
1 April 2020 | 20.0 | P354 - 1 April 2020 Standalone Release | SVG229/07 |
1 April 2021 | 21.0 | P383 – 1 April 2021 Standalone Release | SVG241/04 |
1. The franchises for electricity supply held by Public Electricity Suppliers expired on 31 March 1998. As a consequence, all electricity customers became free to seek competitive supplies from 1 April 1998.
2. Accordingly, the Electricity Pool of England and Wales (the Pool) developed proposals for new arrangements for electricity trading and settlement to support the "1998 market". The 1998 Operational Framework (reference 1) was prepared to document the Pool's proposals and to provide a Programme Brief for the programme of work for introducing the new arrangements. This programme of work was referred to as the Pool's 1998 Programme.
3. In November 1998, the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) were proposed. These put in place market-based trading like that in commodity markets and competitive energy markets elsewhere, and conformed to the Balancing and Settlement Code. Consequently, the Pool developed a further Programme of work to implement the new Trading Arrangements, which necessitated the need for a Supplier Volume Allocation Agent in order to determine the energy position of Suppliers. This required a development of the original Initial Settlement and Reconciliation system designed in 1998. The Stage 2 processes and systems for energy allocations were to continue under NETA, however the financial calculations performed by the ISRA would not.
4. The New Electricity Trading Arrangements required four specific changes to the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation system. These were:
4.1 NETA interfaces to Stage 2;
4.2 Multiple BM Units per GSP Group;
4.3 Splitting individual Half Hourly meter volumes between more than one Supplier;
4.4 Generator allocated volumes.
These requirements were implemented in two packages, the first covering NETA interfaces to Stage 2 and Generator allocated volumes and the second covering Multiple BM Unit and the Splitting of Half Hourly metering between Suppliers.
The initiation of the joint Ofgem/DTI BETTA (British Electricity Trading and Transmission Arrangements) project extends NETA to include Scotland. ISRA is required to settle on the Scottish GSP Groups, and take account of Scottish Regression Coefficients and Scottish Day Types.
1. This document describes the requirements for a system which supports the Initial volume allocation and subsequent reconciliation between Suppliers, by adjusting Suppliers’ energy volumes as meter data becomes available to replace estimates used in Initial Settlement. This process comprises the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency (ISRA) system, which is a nationally developed system, which could be run by individual ISR Agents for each GSP Group.
2. The ISRA system must work within the defined context of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA), and therefore this specification includes details of the interfaces between the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency system and the other systems in NETA. The principles and structure of NETA are described in detail in the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (reference 18).
3. The specification is developed in accordance with the Required Amendments to Trading Stage 2 for NETA (reference 17). SSADM Version 4 has been used and, although not all products for Stage 3 have been produced, Stages 1 and 2 have been completed. In addition, Steps 310 and 320 have been completed and parts of 330, 360 and 380 have been carried out. These have been provided to enhance the document and clarify the requirements analysis. A full Stage 3 design should not be inferred from the inclusion of these products.
1.2 Summary of the Document
1. The User Requirements Specification (URS) comprises:
a statement of the high level principles and the objectives of the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency system (ISRA);
a summary of the constraints and assumptions on which the URS is based;
a description of the scope and functions covered by the URS;
the detailed Requirements for ISRA;
supporting information, including the Required Data Flow Model, Logical Data Model, Data Catalogue, Function Descriptions, System Event Descriptions, and User Roles.
2. Principles and Objectives
The requirements of the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency system (ISRA) all arise from a set of basic high level principles. The detailed requirements listed in the Requirements Catalogue section of this document all relate to and support one or more of these principles. Listed below are the high level principles for the system:
1. Initial Settlement will provide an equitable initial allocation of energy volumes across Suppliers. This will be based on a combination of half hourly data and profiled estimates of consumption, both adjusted for line losses and corrected to total GSP Group demand for each half hour. (OF407(f))
2. Reconciliation is the means by which an equitable adjustment of Suppliers’ energy volumes can be achieved as meter data becomes available to replace the estimates used in the Initial Settlement process. (OF 407(g))
3. ISRA will ensure that the sum of the Suppliers’ energy volumes balances the total energy volume in every Settlement Period, within a GSP Group.
4. ISRA will generate reports for Suppliers and Distributor (including DUoS), Transmission Use of System (TUoS), and the SAA that detail the results of the calculations performed.
5. ISRA will support interfaces with all relevant parties and systems to facilitate the timely and accurate provision or receipt of data.
6. ISRA will be a fully auditable system and will be capable of storing and retrieving data to allow the review and, if necessary, the re-running of the calculations for any Settlement Day for at least two years after the Settlement Day.
7. ISRA will comply with Pool’s 1998 Programme security and control framework (reference 8) and the Pool’s 1998 Programme’s standard codes and naming conventions.
8. The design and implementation of ISRA shall not prevent the system, given an appropriate hardware environment, being operated to meet the prescribed settlement and reconciliation schedule.
9. The design and implementation of the ISRA will not adversely constrain the operation and performance of Existing Settlements or the production of TUoS charges.
The major business objectives are:
1. to ensure an equitable allocation of Suppliers’ energy volumes by allocating differences between metered GSP Group Take and the total profiled and metered demand across Suppliers in a way which is not expected to favour any one Supplier or group of Suppliers;
2. to enable reconciliation of the Suppliers’ energy volumes, based on estimated consumption to those using actual meter readings obtained up to 2 years after the Settlement Day;
3. to provide Supplier energy volume information to enable the trading of electricity between Generators and Suppliers.
4. to supply the information required to enable the Market to clear between Generators and Suppliers for each Settlement Day in the same timescales as in the pre-NETA market.
The major system objectives of the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency systems are:
1. to enable the ISRA process to be operated by ISR Agents as agents of the Pool;
2. to determine daily the Profile Coefficients for each half hour;
3. to provide the Daily Profile Coefficients to the Non-Half Hourly Data Collectors to support the calculation of EACs and Annualised Advances;
4. to enable the calculation of Supplier energy volumes, within a GSP Group for any Settlement Day, for at least 2 years afterwards;
5. to maintain any appropriate settlement related standing data required to achieve the system objectives;
6. to provide interfaces with the other systems in the Operational Framework (reference 1);
7. to provide a robust system which can run independently of the other NETA systems, subject to the necessary data being made available; and
8. to provide audit, security and control measures and maintain and retain sufficient audit information to satisfy all Pool members, the Pool Auditor and all legal requirements.
The objectives of the project are to develop the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency systems, notably:
1. to design and develop systems which satisfy the business requirements for the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency functions of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA), as stated in this specification;
2. to ensure that the design of such systems is compatible with the 1998 technical architecture for the overall business requirement;
3. to design ISRA in such a way that functionally independent components (such as Daily Profile Production and Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation runs) may be run as independent systems;
4. to design and implement ISRA in such a way that an agent of the Pool may perform the calculations for a single GSP Group, independently of those for another GSP Group;
5. to design and implement ISRA in such a way that any ISR Agent may run the system for more than one GSP Group;
6. to define the interfaces with the Central Data Collection Agent (CDCA), the Data Collection systems, the Data Aggregators, the Host PES, the Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) systems and the National Electricity Transmission System Operator (NETSO) TUoS system;
7. to define the interfaces between the Daily Profile Production and Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation sub-systems;
8. to specify the requirements for standing data to be entered to the ISRA system including the capture of such data as is required to apply the profiles to the EACs in accordance with the defined functionality.
3. Constraints and Assumptions
The baseline for this specification is the Required Amendments to Trading Stage 2 for NETA, version 3.0 (reference 17) and the references below refer to paragraphs in that document, unless otherwise stated.
3.1 Business Constraints and Assumptions
1. Electricity trading between Generators and Suppliers will occur on the basis of energy allocations for each half hour period of each day.
2. The Pool will undertake Reconciliations between Suppliers for a Settlement Day, outside Initial Settlement timescales (OF Ref 407(g)).
3. The Final Reconciliation will occur no later than 24 months after the Settlement Day (OF Ref 488).
4. Further reconciliations after the Final Reconciliation may occur within the framework of the disputes process (OF Ref 488).
5. The Settlement Timetable is published by the Pool in Agreed Procedure AP01 (reference 9). The timetable for Settlement and Reconciliation runs for the New Electricity Trading Arrangements will be published by the Pool in an Agreed Procedure. It will include the deadlines for ISRA’s feeder and other dependent systems.
3.2 System Constraints and Assumptions
1. The ISRA system has no knowledge of individual Metering Systems. It receives aggregated values of EACs/AAs by Settlement Class and of half hour readings by Consumption Component Class.
2. ISRA cannot ensure that for each Settlement Day, every Metering System is accounted for once and only once. This must be determined by 1998 systems other than ISRA, Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregation, for example. The ISRA system will not make any checks for completeness or duplication of metering systems within the data supplied by the Data Aggregators.
3. Where interconnection exists between two GSP Groups, this interconnection will be metered and the half hourly consumption data sent to the CDCA along with the FMS metering to allow determination of GSP Group Take (OF Ref 412 and 413). It is therefore outside the scope of ISRA.
4. Energy volumes associated with Metering Systems registered in CRA will be subtracted from the GSP Group Take by the CDCA before the GSP Group Take is passed to ISRA (for as long as this system continues).
5. ISRA is run on a Settlement Day basis, which is measured in local (clock) time. All times within the system are in local time unless they are explicitly stated to be in GMT.
1. The ISRA system will be operated by Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agents. An ISR Agent can operate the system for one or more GSP Groups.
2. A Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation (SSR) Run is carried out for one, some or, by default, all GSP Groups to which the agent is appointed.
3. A Daily Profile Production Run is carried out for one, some or by default, all GSP Groups.
4. A GSP Group consists of one or more Distribution Systems, each owned and operated by a Distribution Business (OF Ref 411).
5. Where there is a failure to provide data for an SSR Run, data will be substituted to allow the Run to take place and appropriate reports produced.
1. ISRA will receive data from its feeder systems (CDCA, Data Aggregation, PRS) in a timescale based upon the published Settlements timetable.
2. For each SSR and Daily Profile Production run, the most recent data provided for that Settlement Day, by its feeder systems will be used. Defaults will be used if data has not been received from any of the feeder systems.
3. If multiple versions of input data are received for an SSR or Profile Production Run, the latest version of the data received will be used.
4. The input data for any SSR or Daily Profile Production run will be retained for audit purposes.
5. ISRA will receive a full set of aggregated data from both the Half Hourly and the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregators for each SSR run. For the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator, the set will be one Supplier Purchase Matrix entry per Supplier per Settlement Class, per GSP Group. For the Half Hourly Data Aggregator, the set will be one aggregated total per Consumption Component Class, per Supplier and per GSP Group if the HHDA in question has not implemented Multiple BM Units. Otherwise the set will be one aggregated to GSP Group, Supplier, Consumption Component Class, BM Unit and Settlement Period for those Suppliers and HHDAs who have implemented Multiple BM Units.
6. The Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregators supply the aggregated EACs and Annualised Advances, separately by Settlement Class and Supplier, to ISRA for profiling into half hour values for each Settlement Day. ISRA adjusts each of these profiled values by application of an appropriate Line Loss Factor.
7. Aggregated half hourly readings are sent to ISRA by the Half Hourly Data Aggregators with a separate total for line losses. Values supplied to ISRA by the Half Hourly Data Aggregators are supplied by either Consumption Component Class and Supplier if the Half Hourly Data Aggregator does not implement Multiple BM Units, and by BM Unit, Consumption Component Class and Supplier if he does implement Multiple BM Units, but not both.
8. Line Loss Factors will be provided periodically by each Distribution Business in an electronic format. It is assumed that a value will be supplied for each Line Loss Factor Class, Settlement Date and Settlement Period.
9. The definitive source for Line Loss Factor values is the Distribution Business (although these are distributed to ISRA by BSCCo).
10. NETSO TUoS system will receive the TUoS reports from all SSR Runs.
3.2.4 End-User Interfaces
1. ISRA standing data creation and changes (including NHH BM Unit Allocations) will be manually entered. In the case of disagreement with files supplied by Data Aggregators, standing data will be automatically updated by the ISRA software to agree with that provided by the DA.
2. Daily temperature data used for generating profiles will be manually entered.
1. The system will allow recalculation of Daily Profile Coefficients for a Settlement Day up until the time of the Final Initial Settlement run, for that day. It will be the responsibility of Data Collectors to perform any recalculation of EACs and AAs that may be required as a result.
2. It is assumed that recalculation of Daily Profile Coefficients will be a rare occurrence, as it would be caused by errors in the Regression Equations or Daily Parameter input.
3. The system will calculate separate profiles for each Time Pattern of each Standard Settlement Configuration supported by the settlement process. This will be done through the processes of Algorithmic Profiling, and Chunking (i.e. splitting a Profile for a Standard Settlement Configuration into separate ‘chunks’ for each Time Pattern). This will enable other 1998 systems to estimate consumption or calculate Annualised Advances for Settlement Registers, without the need for additional information concerning their switching behaviour.
4. The system will not contain additional functionality to support metering systems where:
two meters exist at one site where one meter measures off-peak or restricted hour electricity consumption (“switch load”) and the other measures the unrestricted consumption; or
a single meter exists where one register measures the “switch load” consumption while the other register measures the unrestricted consumption.
Instead, both types of metering system will be supported by assigning a distinct MSID and Standard Settlement Configuration to each meter or metering element.
1. The process of Chunking will be performed as part of Daily Profile Production, rather than as part of both the SSR and EAC systems, as described in Appendix A of the Operational Framework (reference 1). The results are identical but performing the process only once is more efficient.
2. The chunked profiles produced by the system will be 'normalised' so that the sum of the coefficients over a typical year would be one. This will ensure that the EACs and AAs calculated by the EAC system reflect the Average Annual Consumption for each Settlement Register, rather than the total for the metering system.
3.2.6 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
3.2.6.1 Non-Pooled Generation Processing
1. Suppliers will be allocated negative Deemed Take within a GSP Group for any half hour if the output from any Non Pooled Generation (NPG) which they may have exceeds their take.
3.2.6.2 GSP Group Correction
1. Unallocated Energy for a half hour period may be positive or negative (i.e. the Aggregated GSP Group Consumption may be less than or greater than the GSP Group Take) or zero.
2. The mechanism that compensates the consumption to exactly balance the GSP Group take is GSP Group Correction. GSP Group Correction will always be applied to at least one component of consumption.
1. This section describes the business process, scope and context of the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency system (ISRA). The scope of the development project(s) to design and implement ISRA is not covered in this section.
2. The Business view of ISRA can be represented in a number of ways and this section contains:
the scope of ISRA in terms of the 1998 Programme Business Process Model (reference 1);
an overview of the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency process;
diagrammatic representation of the context of ISRA in terms of its interfaces with trading parties, Pool organisations, NETA systems and other external systems;
the business events which affect ISRA.
1. The Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency (ISRA) system comprises the business processes that are required to calculate Suppliers’ energy volumes in the New Electricity Trading Arrangements. There are two distinct business processes:
2. The high level processes in the Business Process Model in the Operational Framework (reference 1) map onto these systems as follows:
ISRA Sub-system | BPM Ref | BPM Process Name |
Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation | 8B | GSP Group Aggregation |
| 9/15 | Deemed Take Calculation |
| 13/16 | Determine Supplier Energy Volumes |
Daily Profile Production | 12 (part) | Profile Production (part) |
BPM Process 12, Profile Production includes both the production of daily profiles by the ISR Agent and the annual production of generic profiles or regression equations, by the Profile Administrator. The ISRA process Daily Profile Production maps to the first of these functions.
4.3.1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
1. The Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation (SSR) sub-system comprises the business processes that are required to estimate each Supplier’s energy volumes within each BM Unit. The value of each Suppliers’ energy volumes within each BM Unit are passed to the Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) thereby allowing the Market to be cleared, for each Settlement Day, within the existing 29 day cycle.
2. The Central Data Collection Agent’s (CDCA) settlement system provides to the SAA the Generator energy volumes, the Station Demand energy volumes, the Interconnector energy volumes, and any energy volumes for customers registered in CRA. To make an Initial Settlement, a complete set of all GSP Group Supplier energy volumes is required, together with the CDCA’s data.
3. Initial Settlement is carried out using the best data available at the time and will include aggregated estimated meter reading data and aggregated actual meter reading data. This process is followed by a series of Reconciliation runs over a period of time (possibly up to two years). These Reconciliation runs use more complete actual data as it becomes available until near 100% actual data is available. It is assumed that Final Reconciliation will occur no later than 24 months after the Settlement Day.
4. Each Reconciliation run results in a completely new set of energy volume allocations between Suppliers for the Settlement Day for one or more GSP Groups included. This data is passed to the Settlement Administration Agent who then calculates the adjustments with respect to the previous run. The CDCA’s calculations are repeated for each of the ISR Agent’s Reconciliation runs. When a Dispute Final Settlement is to be made there may be a complete recalculation involving the CDCA and some or all ISR Agents, subject to the agreed disputes procedure. Normally this will be performed as part of the next Settlement run.
5. The processes of Initial Settlement and Reconciliation are practically identical. The Reconciliation process differs from the Initial Settlement process in that the quality of the data improves with each successive run.
6. Meter reading data is collected by Data Collectors, aggregated by the Data Aggregators and sent to the SSR system. The Line Loss Factor data is also made available to SSR from the Distributor in respect of non-half hourly data.
7. The CDCA‘s systems pass for each GSP Group for each half hour of a Settlement Day, the GSP Group Take. This data allows the Agent to calculate the Supplier energy volumes from the Supplier Deemed Take for the Settlement Day.
4.3.1.1 GSP Group Aggregation
1. Supplier Takes for each Settlement Day for a GSP Group are calculated using data provided by Data Aggregators.
2. Half Hourly Data Aggregators supply aggregated values where half hourly metering is installed or where they are provided by approved systems designed to estimate them for unmetered supplies. The Data Aggregators adjust the half hourly values for each metering system for line loss, aggregate the values for all half hourly metering systems for a Supplier, and supply the separate totals to SSR for each half hour.
3. Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregators are responsible for aggregation when there is no half hourly meter and a meter advance meter has been installed. Each meter advance metering system has one or more Estimated Annual Consumption (EAC) and Annualised Advance (AA) associated with it. The Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregators sum the EACs and AAs for each Supplier and valid Settlement Class and send the aggregated values to the ISR Agent. This data is termed the Supplier Purchase Matrix (SPM).
4. GSP Group Aggregation involves the calculation of a Supplier’s consumption for each half hour for a BM Unit by the application of the appropriate profile to Supplier Purchase Matrix cells. The SSR system uses profiling to derive consumption values for each half hour, for each BM Unit for each Supplier, for those of their customers that do not have half hourly metering installed. The profiled half hourly values are then adjusted for line loss.
5. The principle of the profiling process is to convert the annual consumption totals (EAC & AA) for each Settlement Class to half hourly estimates of consumption, using profiles of average consumption. The process of constructing these profiles is described in Daily Profile Production.
4.3.1.2 Deemed Take Calculation
1. It is required that the total calculated consumption (Deemed Take) for a GSP Group in a half hour exactly matches the actual metered imports to the Group from the Grid Supply Points (GSPs). To achieve this, the GSP totals for the Group are passed by the CDCA (who meters these through the FMS system) to the ISR Agent to allow the adjustment to be made. The ISR Agent then carries out a GSP Group Correction by pro-rating the Aggregated Deemed Takes for the Suppliers within the GSP Group up or down to match the GSP Group total supplied by the CDCA.
2. Not all components of the Deemed Take are included in the correction process. In general it is the profiled, line loss adjusted components (rather than half hourly metered values) that are subjected to correction and scaling factors can be applied to different components used in correction.
3. The result of this process is, for each GSP Group, a set of Deemed Takes for each BM Unit for each Supplier for each Settlement Period of the Settlement Day.
4.3.1.3 BM Unit SVA Gross Demand Calculation (for purposes of the CFD Arrangements)
1. In addition to the Deemed Take calculation reflecting net consumption, the gross half hourly demand (‘BM Unit SVA Gross Demand’) for each Supplier and BM Unit is calculated. The BM Unit SVA Gross Demand for a Supplier BM Unit is defined as the sum of the Corrected Component (CORCiNj) for all Consumption Component Classes ‘N’ associated with Active Import. It follows from this definition that the BM Unit SVA Gross Demand will be adjusted for distribution losses and for GSP Group Correction (but will exclude any Active Export energy).
4.3.1.4 Determine Supplier Energy Volumes
1. The Supplier energy volumes are passed through to the SAA for processing.
4.3.1.5 Determine Quarterly Volumes
1. In relation to each calendar quarter, values required for a Supplier Quarterly Volume Report are calculated. This includes a sum of Supplier volume data for the Settlement Days in the quarter (as determined at First Reconciliation), adjusted for distribution losses and GSP Group Correction, along with the related number of Metering Systems averaged over the quarter.
4.3.2 Daily Profile Production
1. Profiles are produced for each Profile Class based on load research, and are supplied to the ISR Agent by the Profile Administrator(s).
2. For each Settlement Day, the ISRA Daily Profile Production system produces the Profile Coefficients required to calculate the consumption for each Profile Class. A profile is a set of regression equations (one for each half hour of the day) which can be evaluated to obtain a temperature-adjusted estimate of half hourly consumption (in kW over the half hour) for the Profile Class Average. Profile Coefficients for each GSP Group area are produced from these equations and these coefficients are then multiplied by EACs and AAs to calculate half hourly consumption.
3. The regression equations and class average consumption are provided to the Daily Profile Production system by the Profile Administrator; time of sunset for the GSP Group is provided by the Sunset Provider and the Sunset Variable may be derived; and the noon effective temperature for the GSP Group is calculated from temperature data provided by the Authorised Temperature Provider.
4. The production of the profiles is carried out once for each Settlement Day (except for any recalculations needed to correct errors, which may occur up until the Final Initial Settlement Run). The initial settlement run and subsequent reconciliation of that trading use the same set of Profile Coefficients. The calculation of AAs and EACs and the derivation of meter advances similarly use the previously produced sets of Profile Coefficients for each Settlement Day in the period under calculation.
The ISRA system is affected by the following business events:
1. Profile Production for Settlement Day
2. Initial Settlement for Settlement Day
3. Reconciliation for Settlement Day
4. Dispute Resolution for Settlement Day
7. Changes to Published Pool Market Domain Data
8. Settlement Timetable Published
9. Changes to Scaling Factors for GSP Group Correction
10. Supplier starts/stops trading in GSP Group
11. Data Aggregator starts/stops operating in GSP Group
12. Data Collector starts/stops operating in GSP Group
13. Changes to Line Loss Factor Classes
14. Start of trading on NETA Go-Live date
15. Changes to GSP Groups
17. Changes to BM Unit allocations
18. Start of trading on BETTA Go-Live date
19. Scottish Regression Coefficients End Date
Each business event triggers a number of external system events and each external system event relates to a number of detailed system events, as described in Function Description and Events, section 9. The events do not necessarily occur serially, nor is the order significant unless specifically stated or implicitly defined by logical relationships.
4.5.1 Profile Production for Settlement Day
This is a scheduled event and is triggered by a pre-determined, published Settlement Timetable. It will occur once for each Settlement Day. It triggers the following input system events:
1. Authorised Temperature Provider sends daily temperature parameters for Settlement Day to Profiling function, comprising:
2. Profiling function receives set of Sunset times for the GSP Group, comprising:
3. Profiling function receives Teleswitch contact intervals (i.e. Teleswitch switching times) prepared by the Teleswitch Agent for Settlement Day, comprising:
4. Calendar data created covering the Settlement Day, comprising:
5. ISR Agent runs Profiling Run for Settlement Day, when events (1) to (4) completed, comprising:
Note that in practice the Sunset Data Loaded, Scottish Day Type and Day Type Specified for Settlement Day events may occur well in advance e.g. at the start of the year
4.5.2 Initial Settlement for Settlement Day
This is a scheduled event and is triggered by the published Settlement Timetable. It will occur more than once for each Settlement Day (although it will normally occur only once). It triggers the following input system events:
1. HH Data Aggregators send aggregated half hour meter consumptions and their associated line losses, comprising:
2. Non-HH Data Aggregators send Supplier Purchase Matrix EAC and AAs, comprising:
3. CDCA sends GSP Group Take, comprising:
4. ISR Agent runs Initial Settlement process for Settlement Day, when events (1) to (3) completed comprising:
The following output enquiry events are triggered:
1. The BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File and BM Unit SVA Gross Demand Data File are sent to Settlement Administration Agent.
2. The Deemed Supplier Take report is sent to Transmission Use of System.
3. The GSP Group Consumption Totals report is produced and sent for each Supplier, with a variant also sent to BSCCo.
4.5.3 Reconciliation for Settlement Day
This is a scheduled event and is triggered by the published Reconciliation timetable. It will occur more than once for each Settlement Day. It triggers the following input system events:
1. HH Data Aggregators send aggregated half hour meter consumptions and their associated line losses, comprising:
2. Non-HH Data Aggregators send Supplier Purchase Matrix EAC and AAs, comprising:
3. CDCA sends GSP Group Take data, comprising:
4. ISR Agent runs the Reconciliation process for Settlement Day, when events (1) to (3) completed comprising:
The following output enquiry events are triggered:
1. The BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File and BM Unit SVA Gross Demand Data File are sent to Settlement Administration Agent.
2. The Deemed Supplier Take report is sent to Transmission Use of System.
3. The GSP Group Consumption Total report is produced and sent for each Supplier, with a variant also set to BSCCo.
4.5.4 Dispute Resolution for Settlement Day
If a dispute occurs before the final reconciliation run, then the next Initial Settlement or Reconciliation run, according to the published Settlement Timetable will normally rectify any misallocation of funds between Suppliers or between Suppliers and Generators.
This is an ad-hoc event which may, either
affect both Suppliers and Generators, in which case the CDCA must provide amended Settlement data. A full Initial Settlement or Reconciliation Run may be run and the input and output events are the same as those for an Initial Settlement or Reconciliation for Settlement Day; or
affect only Suppliers within a GSP Group, in which case a Reconciliation run may be run and the input and output events are the same as those for Reconciliation for Settlement Day.
If the dispute occurs after the final reconciliation run, then ISRA must provide data to support the resolution of the dispute and this may involve the following system events and enquiries:
restore from archive; and
dispute reports produced; or
a full Initial Settlement run; or
a Reconciliation run.
After the Trading Arrangements have been in use for some time, as a result of load research, a Profile Administrator makes changes to the underlying regression equations which are used to produce daily profiles. It triggers the following input system event:
1. Profile Administrator provides the Market Domain Data Agent and the ISR Agent with details of a profile change with the effective date, comprising:
Profile deleted;
Profile entered;
Profile updated;
Regression Equation deleted;
Regression Equation entered;
Regression Equation updated.
4.5.6 Profile Class Changes
After the Trading Arrangements have been in use for some time, it is agreed by Pool Members that changes are required to Profile Classes. This may involve introduction of new Profiles or removal of existing Profiles or changes to individual Profiles, supplied by the Profile Agent. It may also involve changes to the rules about which Standard Settlement Configurations may be assigned to a Profile Class. It triggers one or more of the following input system events:
1. Pool Members inform the Market Domain Data Agent who informs the ISR Agent of new Profile Classes, comprising:
Profile Class Entered;
Profile Class Updated.
2. Profile Administrator provides the Market Domain Data Agent and the ISR Agent with details of profiles for new Profile Classes, comprising:
3. Pool Members inform the Market Domain Data Agent who informs the ISR Agent of Profile Classes to be removed, comprising:
Profile Class Updated;
Profile Class deleted;
Profile updated;
Profile deleted;
Regression Equation updated;
Regression Equation deleted;
Standard Settlement Configuration deassigned from Profile Class.
4. Suppliers inform the Market Domain Data Agent who informs the ISR Agent of Standard Settlement Configurations which are valid for new Profile Class, comprising:
Standard Settlement Configuration assigned to Profile Class;
Standard Settlement Configuration entered;
Standard Settlement Configuration updated.
5. Pool Members inform the Market Domain Data Agent who informs the ISR Agent of changes to the rules governing the assignment of Standard Settlement Configurations to Profile Classes, comprising:
Standard Settlement Configuration assigned to Profile Class;
Standard Settlement Configuration deassigned from Profile Class;
Assignment to Profile Class Updated;
Standard Settlement Configuration deleted;
Standard Settlement Configuration entered;
Standard Settlement Configuration updated.
4.5.7 Changes to Published Pool Market Domain Data
The Pool Members agree that changes are required to the Pool Market Domain data, such as new timeswitch regimes are required, existing timeswitch regimes are to be withdrawn or changes to existing timeswitch regimes are required. It triggers the following input system event:
1. Amendments are sent to the Market Domain Data Agent who provides the ISR Agent with details of time patterns and the Standard Settlement Configurations affected and effective date, Settlement Day and Line Loss Factor Classes, comprising:
Pool Market Domain Data loaded;
Standard Settlement Configuration deleted;
Standard Settlement Configuration entered;
Standard Settlement Configuration updated;
Time Pattern assigned to Standard Settlement Configuration;
Time Pattern deassigned from Standard Settlement Configuration;
Time Pattern Regime deleted;
Time Pattern Regime entered;
Time Pattern Regime updated;
Clock Interval deleted;
Clock Interval entered;
Set of average Consumption Fractions entered;
Set of average Consumption Fractions updated;
Set of average Consumption Fractions deleted;
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules entered;
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules updated;
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules deleted;
BM Unit details entered;
BM Unit details updated;
BM Unit details deleted;
Market Domain Data Complete Set loaded
4.5.8 Settlement Timetable Published
The Market Domain Data Agent distributes a new Settlement Timetable or changes to the existing timetable. It triggers the following input system event:
1. Amendments are sent to ISR Agent with details Settlement Codes and dates, comprising:
4.5.9 Changes to Scaling Factors
The Pool members agree that the scaling factors used in GSP Group Correction should be changed and amend the Pool Rules accordingly. It triggers the following input system event:
1. Pool Rules amendments sent to the Market Domain Data Agent are forwarded to the ISR Agent with details of scaling factor changes and effective date, comprising:
GSP Group Scaling Factors deleted;
GSP Group Scaling Factors entered;
GSP Group Scaling Factors updated.
4.5.10 Supplier starts/stops trading in GSP Group
A Supplier starts to trade within a GSP Group or stops trading within that GSP Group. This event is triggered by the wider Metering System Change of Supplier event. It triggers the following input system events:
1. Supplier provides the ISR Agent with details of GSP Group in which he will start trading and effective date, comprising:
Supplier details entered;
Supplier details updated;
Supplier starts trading in GSP Group;
Aggregator (half hourly and/or non-half hourly) assigned to GSP Group;
Data Collector details entered;
Data Collector details updated;
Data Collector appointed to GSP Group.
2. Supplier provides the ISR Agent with details of when he will cease trading and where, comprising:
Supplier details updated;
Supplier details deleted;
Supplier finishes trading in GSP Group;
Aggregator assignment deleted;
Data Collector in GSP Group deleted.
4.5.11 Data Aggregator starts/stops operating in GSP Group
A Data Aggregator starts to operate within a GSP Group or stops operating within that GSP Group. This event may be triggered by the wider Metering System Change of Supplier event or by a Supplier appointing a new Data Aggregator or changing an existing Data Aggregator. It triggers the following input system events:
1. The Supplier provides the ISR Agent with details of GSP Group in which his Data Aggregator(s) will start trading and effective date, comprising:
2. The Supplier provides the ISR Agent with details of when his Data Aggregator(s) will cease trading and where, comprising:
4.5.12 Data Collector starts/stops operating in GSP Group
A Data Collector starts to operate within a GSP Group or stops operating within that GSP Group. This event may be triggered by the wider Metering System Change of Supplier event or by a Supplier appointing a new Data Collector or changing an existing Data Collector. It triggers the following input system events:
1. The Supplier provides the ISR Agent with details of GSP Group in which his Data Collector(s) will start trading and effective date, comprising:
Data Collector details entered;
Data Collector details updated;
Data Collector appointed to GSP Group.
2. The Supplier provides the ISR Agent with details of when his Data Collector(s) will cease trading and where, comprising:
4.5.13 Changes to Line Loss Factor Classes
A Distributor creates a new Line Loss Factor class, withdraws a Line Loss Factor Class, changes the factors associated with a Line Loss Factor Class or changes the status of Line Loss Factor Class. It triggers the following input system event:
1. Distributor sends changes to Line Loss Factor classes, with effective dates to the Market Domain Data Agent who forwards these on to the ISR Agent, which may comprise some or all of:
Line Loss Factor codes deleted;
Line Loss Factors deleted;
Line Loss Factor codes entered;
Line Loss Factors entered;
Line Loss Factor codes updated;
Line Loss Factors updated.
4.5.14 Start of Trading on 1 April 1998
Prior to the start of trading a number of input events must take place. At some scheduled time before the first Settlement run is due, this event will occur. It triggers the following input system event:
1. The basic GSP Group data is supplied by the Distributors and Suppliers for each GSP Group, comprising:
System installation;
GSP Group Entered;
Aggregator assigned to GSP Group;
Distributor assigned to GSP Group;
Clock Change entered;
Clock Change Updated;
Line Loss Factor codes entered;
Line Loss Factors entered;
Line Loss Factor codes updated;
Line Loss Factors updated.
2. The Market Domain Data Agent distributes the initial Settlement Timetable and other market domain data, comprising:
Settlement entered;
Settlement updated;
Pool Market Domain Data loaded;
Standard Settlement Configuration entered;
Standard Settlement Configuration updated;
Time Pattern assigned to Standard Settlement Configuration;
Time Pattern Regime entered;
Time Pattern Regime updated;
Clock Interval Entered;
GSP Group Scaling Factors entered;
GSP Group Scaling Factors updated
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules entered;
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules updated.
4.5.15 Changes to GSP Groups
As a result of agreement by Pool Members GSP Groups are reorganised, and a GSP Group is split or merged, or details for the GSP Group change. It triggers the following input system events:
1. New GSP Group data is supplied by the Distributors and Suppliers for each GSP Group, comprising:
GSP Group Entered and flagged as Scottish if necessary;
Aggregator assigned to GSP Group;
Distributor assigned to GSP Group;
GSP Group Scaling Factors entered;
GSP Group Scaling Factors updated.
2. Old GSP Group data is archived and removed, once there are no outstanding reconciliation runs for the old GSP Group, comprising:
Archive standing data;
Aggregator assignment deleted;
Distributor deassigned from GSP Group;
GSP Group Scaling Factors deleted;
GSP Group Deleted.
3. Changes in GSP Group assignments is supplied by the Distributors and Suppliers for each GSP Group, comprising:
Aggregator assigned to GSP Group;
Aggregator assignment deleted;
Distributor deassigned from GSP Group;
Distributor assigned to GSP Group;
GSP Group Scaling Factors entered;
GSP Group Scaling Factors updated;
GSP Group Scaling Factors deleted.
This is a scheduled event, which involves the deletion of redundant data from the system. The data that is removed is subject to the following criteria (the Archive Criteria):
The data is for a Settlement Day for which a Final Reconciliation Run has been successfully completed;
The data relates to a Settlement Day that is older than the minimum archive period as defined in the Archiving Plan (Reference 20).
It is triggered by the following input system events:
1. ISR Agent runs the archive process for a Settlement Day or range of Settlement Days, comprising:
Archive Daily Profiles;
Archive SSR Daily Data.
2. ISR Agent purges data which is subject to the Archive Criteria, comprising:
Clock Change deleted;
Clock Interval deleted;
GSP Group Scaling Factors deleted;
Line Loss Factor Codes deleted;
Profile Class deleted;
Profile deleted;
Regression Equation deleted;
Standard Settlement Configuration deassigned from Profile Class;
Standard Settlement Configuration deleted;
Supplier details deleted;
Time Pattern Regime deleted.
4.5.17 Changes to NHH BM Unit Allocation
A Supplier makes changes to the NHH BM Unit allocations, comprising:
1. Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation entered.
2. Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation updated.
3. Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation deleted.
4.5.18 Specify Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
BSCCo notifies the ISR Agent of the specific Data Aggregators that are expected to submit data for a range of Settlement Dates in the event of a Dispute Final Run.
5. Requirements Catalogue
The Requirements Catalogue is divided into four sections:
Below this, it is structured to map onto the nine high level principles described in Section 2.1, with some reorganisation for internal functional requirements:
1. ISRA must provide an equitable mechanism to determine energy allocations | } Internal functionality - } structured as: |
2. Reconciliation adjustments | } 1. SSR run functionality, and |
3. Energy Volumes must balance | } 2. Daily Profile Production functionality. |
4. Reporting | |
5. Interface functionality. | |
6. Audit and verifiability |
7. Security and control |
9. Design constraints, including interface design constraints. |
The scope of the Requirements Catalogue does not include Service Requirements, such as user support, training, documentation, and maintenance.
5.2 Key to the Requirements Catalogue
The status of each requirement is coded as M (mandatory), H (highly desirable), or D (desirable).
The numbering within the Requirements Catalogue consists of a single digit for the high level principle or functional area that each requirement supports, followed by sequential numbering within principle or functional area.
Some of the requirements cannot be captured in full in a few sentences. In these cases the details are given in the annexe at the end of the Requirements Catalogue.
The last two columns record the source of each requirement, and its resolution. The following abbreviations are used in the last two columns:
BPM - Business Process Model (from the Operational Framework)
BRT - Business Requirements Team
CR - Change Request
DFD - Data Flow Diagram
EPD - Elementary Process Description
LDM - Logical Data Model
ISR UAG - ISR User Assurance Group (a group of experts set up to support the development of the ISRA URS)
OF nnn - refers to paragraphs in the Operational Framework (reference 1)
OF Appendix n - refers to appendices in the Operational Framework (reference 1)
PTF - Profiling Task Force (a group of experts set up to define and recommend the requirements for profiling)
SIR - Settlement Issue Report
UAC - User Assurance Co-ordination team
All abbreviations are listed in the Glossary (reference 10).
5.3 Functional Requirements
The Functional Requirements are organised into four groups, according to the high level principles they support and the area of functionality to which they relate:
Internal functionality requirements, supporting high level principles 1-3, subdivided into:
Reporting and Interface requirements, subdivided into:
Reporting requirements, supporting high level principle 4.
Interface functionality, supporting high level principle 5.
5.3.1 Functional Requirements - Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation Runs
These requirements support the following three high level functional principles:
1. Initial Settlement will provide an equitable initial allocation of energy volumes across Suppliers. This will be based on a combination of half hourly data and profiled estimates of consumption, both adjusted for line losses and corrected to total GSP Group demand for each half hour.
2. Reconciliation is the means by which an equitable adjustment of Suppliers’ energy volumes can be achieved as meter data becomes available to replace the estimates used in the Initial Settlement process.
3. ISRA will ensure that the sum of the Suppliers’ energy values, balances the total energy in every Settlement Period, within a GSP Group.
The requirements in this subsection cover the functionality needed in the main system to run Initial Settlement and Reconciliation: those in the next subsection cover the functionality within the Daily Profile Production system.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution and cross reference |
1.1 | M | For each Settlement for a Settlement Day, ISRA must use data supplied by the CDCA; the Half Hourly (HH) Data Aggregators and the Non-HH Data Aggregators | OF Appendix A, CR R2585 | Level 0 DFD |
1.2 | M | For any Settlement, the most recent, validated data received for the Settlement Day must be used. This includes data from Data Aggregators that has failed validation solely due to a conflict with the standing data. If such a conflict occurs, the software must produce an exception report indicating the error. The ISR software must then modify the standing data for that Settlement Day only, to agree with that provided by the Data Aggregator and re-load and validate the data, in accordance with Agreed Procedures. | BRT, SIR R605 CR R2985 (SIR R2180) | EPD 1.4.1 |
1.3 | M | If there is a failure to submit data within the prescribed timescales for a settlement run from the ISR Agent must substitute identified default data in accordance with Agreed Procedures. An exception report must be produced identifying the data defaulted. Indicative default processing is described in process 1.4.1 of the Data Flow Model. | Security and Control Framework & BRT, CR R2585 | EPD 1.4.1 |
1.4 | M | For each Settlement Day, the system must permit one or more Settlements. A Settlement requires an Initial Settlement or a Reconciliation run. The calculations performed for each Reconciliation run are the same as in Initial Settlement, but use more recently received data. | OF 407(e) 485, 486 | DFDs 1.1 and 1.4 – identical processes for each run |
1.5 | M | ISRA must be capable of storing standing data which is required for validation of input files, as defined by the following entities on the LDM: Screens will be available for entering and updating this data. Data entered must be validated as described in processes 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.8, 1.3.9 and 1.3.10 of the Data Flow Model. Additionally, a facility will be available for electronically loading Line Loss Factor Class data and BM Unit for a Supplier in a GSP Group from files prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. | Security and Control Framework CR R2641 CR R1335 | LDM EPDs 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6 1.3.8 1.3.9 and 1.3.10. EPD 2.6 |
1.6 | M | The system must store data relating to the latest Settlement and its associated SSR Run for each Settlement Day, for subsequent reporting. The data to be stored is defined by the following entities on the LDM: Aggregated DA Supply Period Consumption, GSP Group Take, Settlement Period Line Loss Factor Class, Aggregated Supplier Period Consumption, BM Unit Period Consumption, Period Supplier Energy Volumes, Supplier Purchase Matrix, Profiled SPM and CDCA Settlement GSP Group. | ISR UAG, Change Requests 011 and 063 CR R2585 | LDM |
1.7 | M | For each SSR run, the system must determine values of profiled consumption for each Supplier, by BM Unit using the Supplier Purchase Matrix, Period Profile Class coefficients, and the NHH BM Unit allocations. The processing must be as described in processes 1.4.8.1 and 1.4.8.2 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 459, Change Request 011, 058 CR R2641 | EPDs 1.4.8.1, 1.4.8.2 |
1.8 | M | For each SSR run, the system must calculate the line losses associated with the profiled consumption, using Line Loss Factors provided by the Distributor (BSCCo sends the Line Loss Factors provided by the Distributor to ISRA). The processing must be as described in process 1.4.8.3 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 476 | EPD 1.4.8.3 |
1.9 | M | For each SSR run, ISRA must calculate GSP Group Correction Factors, as described in process 1.4.9.1 of the Data Flow Model, and apply it to appropriate components of all BM Units’ consumption, in order to ensure that no demand measured at a Grid Supply Point within the GSP Group is left unattributed to Suppliers. | OF 407(f), 479, 480 and 4 CR 058, CR R2641 | EPD 1.4.9.1 |
1.91 | M | For each SSR run, ISRA must issue GSP Group Correction Factors to the SVA Aggregation Service for use in SVA_AS_F001 | CP1517 | EPD 1.4.9.1 |
1.10 | M | The calculation of GSP Group Correction Factors in ISRA must be configurable using scaling factors, as described in process 1.4.9.1. | UAC | EPD 1.4.9.1 |
1.11 | M | ISRA must facilitate the maintenance of the GSP Correction Factor scaling factors, as described in EPD 1.3.3 of the Data Flow Model. | UAC | EPD 1.3.3 |
1.12 | M | For each Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation run, the system must sum all of the components of consumption to calculate the Deemed Take for each BM Unit, as described in process 1.4.9.2 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 483 CR R2641 | EPD 1.4.9.2 |
1.13 | M | In calculating the Deemed Take for each BM Unit, the system must treat any Non-Pooled Generation for that BM Unit as negative consumption, and must thus reduce their Deemed Take. | OF 418(a) CR R2641 | EPD 1.4.9.3 |
1.14 | M | The total Deemed Take over all BM Units in the GSP Group must balance with the GSP Group Take supplied by the CDCA. | OF 407 (f) & BRT CR R2585, CR R2641 | EPD 1.4.9.1 |
1.15 | M | If any Supplier should be left with a negative Deemed Take in a GSP Group due to Non-Pooled Generation, ISRA will report a negative consumption total to the SAA where generation exceeds consumption for a Supplier in a GSP Group. | OF 418(b) CR R2626 | EPD 1.4.9.2 |
1.16 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
1.17 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
1.18 | M | Any energy for which no BM Unit has been specified, or for which an invalid BM Unit has been specified, will be allocated to the Base BM Unit for that Supplier and GSP Group (it should be noted that a Base BM Unit is the same as a Default BM Unit). If no Base BM Unit exists (despite the rule that Suppliers will register a Base BM Unit in CRA for all GSP Groups), the SSR Run process will produce an error message and the Run will continue with that data excluded from the Settlement. A warning will be produced when energy in an invalid BM Unit is reallocated to the Base BM Unit. | CR R2641 | EPD 1.4.8.2 |
1.19 | M | The system must be capable of calculating half hourly gross demand for each BM Unit for use by the Settlement Administration Agent | CFD | |
1.20 | M | The system must be capable of calculating quarterly Supplier volume data for use by BSCCo | P315 | EPD 1.2.12 |
5.3.2 Functional Requirements - Daily Profile Production System
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
2.1 | M | For each GSP Group and trading day, the system must calculate a set of period Profile Class coefficients to be used for each permitted combination of Profile Class, Standard Settlement Configuration and time pattern regime. | OF 459-460, Security and Control Framework | EPDs 2.3.1 to 2.3.4 |
2.2 | M | For non Switched Load Profile Classes, the period Profile Class coefficients must be determined by calculating basic Period Profile Coefficients as described in process 2.3.2 of the Data Flow Model, and then chunking these as described in process 2.3.4 | OF 459-460 | EPD 2.3.2, 2.3.4 |
2.3 | M | For Switched Load Profile Classes, the period Profile Class coefficients must be determined by: calculating basic Period Profile Coefficients for both the Base and Switched Load profiles as described in process 2.3.2 of the Data Flow Model. combining the two as described in process 2.3.3 chunking the resultant profile as described in process 2.3.4. | OF 465 | EPD 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4 |
2.4 | D | The algorithmic profiling process (2.3.3 in the Data Flow Model) should produce separate profiles for the Switched Load and Base Load components, and pass both of them to the chunking process. This is to allow future modification of process 2.3.3 to model switching diversity (i.e. the random element programmed into teleswitches), which causes the low and normal register profiles to overlap, without impacting the chunking process. | PTF Change Request 233 | Logical Design |
2.5 | M | The system must be capable of storing Profile Class data, as defined by the Profile Class and Profile entities of the LDM. Screens must be available for entering and updating this data. Data entered must be validated as described in process 2.5.1 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 462 | EPD 2.5.1 |
2.6 | M | The system must be capable of storing regression equation data, as defined by the Profile Set, GSP Group Average EAC, Profile Regression Equation Set, Period Regression Equation and Regression Coefficient entities of the LDM. Data entered must be validated as described in process 2.5.2. of the Data Flow Model. | OF 459 & 461 Change Request 049 | LDM EPD 2.5.2 |
2.7 | M | The system must be capable of storing Standard Settlement Configuration data, as defined by the following entities on the data model: Standard Settlement Configuration Measurement Requirement Time Pattern Regime Clock Interval Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class Teleswitch Register Rule Teleswitch Contact Rule An interface must be available for loading this data, as described in requirement 5.5.14. Screens must also be available for entering and updating this data. Data entered must be validated as described in processes 2.2.1 to 2.2.5 and 2.2.8 to 2.2.9 of the Data Flow Model. | PTF Change Request 290v4, CR R1335 | LDM EPD 2.2.7 EPDs 2.2.1-5 2.2.8-2.2.9 |
2.8 | M | The system must have an interface to a Teleswitch Agent, enabling it to capture a file of teleswitch contact intervals for each UTC (i.e. GMT) day, reflecting the actual teleswitch messages broadcast by the Central Teleswitch Control Unit for that day to teleswitched metering systems, as described in process 2.2.6 of the Data Flow Model. | PTF Change Request 365 Change Request 290v4 | EPD 2.2.6 |
2.9 | M | The system must provide screens for browsing, entering, updating and deleting teleswitch contact intervals, as described in process 2.2.10 of the Data Flow Model. | PTF Change Request 290v4 | EPD 2.2.10 |
2.10 | M | For any DPP run, the system must use the most recently submitted teleswitch data. If there is a failure to submit the teleswitch data for a Settlement Day, prior to the first Settlement run for that day, defaults in accordance with Agreed Procedures must be substituted. The manual interface for entering teleswitch contact intervals must be used for this. | BRT Change Request 290v4 | Logical Design |
2.11 | H | If teleswitch data for a Settlement Day does not exist prior to the first Settlement run for that day, defaults in accordance with Agreed Procedures must be substituted. The ISRA Operator must enter into the system the Settlement Date which is to be used as a substitute. The system will automatically pick up the appropriate data based on that default Settlement Date. Default processing is only required under exceptional conditions and this should be made clear to the operator through appropriate warnings and an exception report. | BRT, Change Request 232 Change Request 290v4 | Logical Design |
2.12 | M | The system must be capable of storing data relating to GSP Groups, as defined by entity GSP Group on the LDM. Screens must be available for entering and updating this data, as specified in process 2.1.1 of the Data Flow Model. | ISR UAG | EPD 2.1.1 |
2.13 | M | The system must be capable of storing calendar and daily parameter data, as defined by entities Settlement, Settlement Day, Daily Profile Parameters and Clock Time Change on the LDM. | PTF | LDM |
2.14 | M | The system must provide screens for entering and updating calendar details, as described in process 2.1.2 of the Data Flow Model. Additionally, a facility will be available for electronically loading Settlement Day data, i.e. Day Type and Season Id , from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. | PTF, CR R1335 | EPD 2.1.2 EPD 2.6 |
2.15 | M | The system must provide screens for entering daily temperature data and calculating noon-effective temperatures, as described in process 2.1.3 of the Data Flow Model. | PTF | EPD 2.1.3 |
2.16 | M | The system must provide a mechanism for loading a file of sunset times for each GSP Group, as described in process 2.1.4 of the Data Flow Model. | PTF | EPD 2.1.4 |
2.17 | M | The system must permit the profiles for a given day and GSP Group to be recalculated with corrected input data, prior to the final run of Initial Settlement. The calculation process is described in process 2.3 of the Data Flow Model. | PTF | EPD 2.3.1 to 2.3.4 |
2.18 | M | The system must be capable of generating and storing Period Time Pattern State data for a given day, based upon the Clock Intervals and the teleswitch intervals. The process must be as described in process 2.3.1 of the Data Flow Model. | ISR UAG, PTF | EPD 2.3.1 |
2.19 | M | The system must be capable of storing Standard Settlement Configurations which define switching times in either GMT and clock (local) time, in order to allow GMT and local time patterns to be profiled with the same accuracy. | Change Request 052 | EPDs 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.2.7 & 2.3.1 |
2.20 | M | The system must be capable of deriving teleswitch register intervals from the teleswitch contact intervals provided by the Teleswitch Agent, using a set of teleswitch register and contact rules supplied by Suppliers as part of Market Domain Data. | PTF Change Request 290v4 | EPD 2.3.1 |
2.21 | M | The system must be capable of using Scottish Regression Coefficients between BETTA Start Date and Scottish Regression Coefficients End Date, and of using the Scottish Day Type. | BETTA | |
2.22 | M | The system must be capable of generating time pattern states for dummy HH SSCs based on mapping information provided by the Distributor | P300 | |
5.3.3 Reporting Requirements
These requirements support the following high level principle:
4. ISRA will generate reports for Suppliers and Distributor (including DUoS), NETSO TUoS, and the PFA, that detail the results of the calculations performed.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
4.1 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
4.2 | M | ISRA must provide a report of deemed Supplier Consumptions to NETSO Transmission Use of System (TUoS). To facilitate the calculation of dispute charges, ISRA must additionally include in this report these deemed Supplier Consumptions split by corrected (i.e. subject to group correction) and non corrected (i.e. not subject to group correction) consumption. To facilitate the calculation of Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) charges, ISRA must additionally include in this report these deemed Supplier Consumptions split between half hourly and non-half hourly consumption for each Supplier Balancing Mechanism Unit (BM Unit). To support the disapplication of Network Charges for Storage Facilities, the report will also include daily and period gross demand from Storage Facilities and Corrected daily and period gross HH demand. Further details are given in the description of elementary process 1.4.9.4 in the Data Flow Model. | OF BPM, OF Table 4.1 (process 20), OF Appendix A, CR R1255 Appendix I, SVAA RF 19 | EPD 1.4.9.4 |
4.3 | M | ISRA must be able to produce one report per Supplier from each SSR run, detailing the results from the deemed take calculation and the data used to derive them. Specifically, the reports must give details of: non-HH energy volume data (aggregated EACs and AAs) used in the calculation for the Settlement run the non-HH energy volumes, by consumption class, after profiles and line losses have been applied HH energy volume data (aggregated HH meter data) used in the calculation for the Settlement run Calculations of deemed take, including GSP correction time and date stamps of each of the relevant data files used in the SSR run. Profile Production, Data Aggregation, and CDCA file set runs used to derive input data for the run, in terms of Settlement Dates, Run Numbers and types, Data Aggregator and type, CDCA Set number and other identification fields as appropriate Details of GSP Group Consumption Totals both before and after GSP Group Correction. | ISR UAG, OF Appendix A, Change Request 088 CR479 | EPDs 1.2.1 to 1.2.5. |
4.4 | M | ISRA must produce Supplier and Data Collector reports detailing the results of the profiling calculations, as follows: Standing Profile Data Report Daily Profile Data Report Standard Settlement Configuration Report Teleswitch Contact Interval Data Report The details of each of these are given in the description of elementary process 2.4.1 in the Data Flow Model. | PTF Change Request 290v4 | EPD 2.4.1 |
4.5 | M | All reports produced by ISRA must be made available in both man and machine readable formats. All reports must be made available in both printed and electronic form. | EPFAL, ISR UAG | Logical Design |
4.6 | D | ISRA should provide ad hoc reporting facilities for all data for Suppliers and other authorised recipients. These reports must be available in both man and machine readable format and in printed and electronic form. | BRT | Logical Design |
4.7 | M | ISRA must be able to produce one report per Supplier for each SSR Run detailing Distribution Use of System (DUoS) for non-half hourly metering systems. Each Supplier only receives the report relating to him. The Distribution Business receives reports relating to all Suppliers using Line Loss Factor Classes in his domain. Specifically, the DUoS report must, for each Supplier, give details of: Within each Line Loss Factor Class, the report must give all combinations of: Within each combination of Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class and Time Pattern Regime, the report must give details of: - Estimated Consumption {Estimated Annual Consumption or Unmetered Consumption}, and - Actual Consumption {Annualised Advance} For each Settlement Period, the report must also give details of: In addition, the report must give - for each Settlement Period and Consumption Component Class - the GSP Group Correction Factor and GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor. | Change Requests 011, 088 and 344 | EPD 1.4.9.5 |
4.8 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
4.9 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
4.10 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
4.11 | M | The content of reports will be arranged in a predictable and practical order. That is, for given data the output will always appear the same and will be arranged in a logical manner that makes it easy for a human to read. | CR R1177 | Physical Design |
4.12 | M | ISRA must provide a report of BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data to SAA for each SSR run, giving details of allocated energy volumes for a Settlement Day by GSP Group, Supplier, BM Unit and Settlement Period. | CR R2641 | EPD 1.4.13.2 |
4.13 | M | ISRA must provide to those Suppliers who are implementing BM Units a Supplier BM Unit Report, containing details of the Supplier’s valid BM Units, NHH BM Unit allocations, the HH consumption/generation data input into the system and the combined HH and NHH consumption/generation by BM Unit and Consumption Component Class calculated by the SSR run. | CR R2641 | EPD 1.2.7 |
5.3.4 Interface Functionality Requirements
These requirements support the following high level principle:
5. ISRA will support interfaces with all relevant parties and systems to facilitate the timely and accurate provision or receipt of data.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
5.1 | M | ISRA must support the automated and manual interfaces described in the Data Flow Model, as follows: 1. Inputs from: 2. Outputs to: Details of the data items passed across each interface are given in the I/O Descriptions (External Data Flow Descriptions) in the Data Flow Model. | OF BPM, OF Appendix A Change Requests 007, 156, 365, 290v4, R1318 and R1335 CR R2585 | Data Flow Model - external interfaces |
5.2 | M | ISRA infrastructure must enable secure and timely external transfer of data - both inputs and outputs. It must keep track of all data which is sent to and received from outside ISRA. It must ensure that data sent, is sent as soon as possible after it is created. | Security and Control Framework | Physical design |
5.3 | M | ISRA must validate any incoming data whenever possible and report any errors to the source of the data, as specified in the following processes of the Data Flow Model: 1.1.1 to 1.1.5, 1.3.1 to 1.3.7, 1.5 2.1.1 to 2.1.4, 2.2.1 to 2.2.10, 2.5.1, 2.5.2 2.6. | Security and Control Framework Change Requests 290v4, R1318 and R1335 | EPDs 1.1.1-5, 1.3.1-7, 1.5. 2.1.1-4, 2.2.1-10, 2.5.1-2, 2.6. |
5.4 | M | ISRA’s interfaces for input and output data must comply with 1998 specifications of units of measure, that is the interfaces must be consistent in their use of units of measure (such as MWh) as appropriate. | 1998 Design Authority Change Request 130 | Logical Design |
5.5 | M | ISRA must have a facility to input profiling parameters, e.g. time of sunset, calendar details, and temperature. The values input must be validated and processed by ISRA as described in Processes 2.1.2 to 2.1.4 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 461 | EPDs 2.1.2 to 2.1.4 |
5.6 | M | ISRA must have a facility to receive and load profile regression equations electronically provided by the Profile Administrator. These equations must vary by season and day type. The equations must be validated by ISRA against the list of data items given in Process 2.5.2 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 458 (b), Security and Control Framework | EPD 2.5.2 |
5.7 | M | ISRA must be able to accept changes to existing profiles and new profiles electronically after 1 April 1998. These must be validated as described in Process 2.5.1 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 466, Security and Control Framework | EPD 2.5.1 |
5.8 | M | ISRA must be able to accept Time/Teleswitching data electronically supplied for profile pre-processing that varies by day. | UAG Change Request 290v4 | EPD 2.2.5, 2.2.6 |
5.9 | M | ISRA must have a facility to receive and process Line Loss Factors electronically supplied by the Distributor. ISRA must validate these Line Loss Factors, as described in Process 1.1.2 of the Data Flow Model. | OF 476, Security and Control Framework | EPD 1.1.2 |
5.10 | M | ISRA must validate Settlements data electronically received from the CDCA, as described in Process 1.1.1 of the Data Flow Model. | Security and Control Framework CR R2585 | EPD 1.1.1 |
5.11 | M | ISRA must validate aggregated half hourly meter data received electronically from Data Aggregators, as described in Process 1.1.3 of the Data Flow Model. | Security and Control Framework | EPD 1.1.3 |
5.12 | M | ISRA must validate Supplier Purchase Matrix data (non-HH aggregated EACs and AAs) received electronically from Non-HH Data Aggregators, as described in Process 1.1.4 of the Data Flow Model. | Security and Control Framework | EPD 1.1.4 |
5.13 | M | ISRA must provide daily totals of Profile Coefficients electronically to Data Collector for use in the EAC System as defined in process 2.4.2 of the Data Flow Model. Each Data Collector must receive data only for those GSP Groups in which they are active. In order to enable this, the system must provide a facility for specifying which Data Collectors are appointed in each GSP Group. | OF Appendix A | EPD 2.4.2 EPD 2.1.5 |
5.14 | M | ISRA must have a facility to load a file of Standard Settlement Configurations and associated data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. The data must be validated and loaded as described in process 2.2.7 of the Data Flow Model. | ISR UAG Change Requests 156 and R1335 | EPD 2.2.7 |
5.15 | M | In addition to requirement 5.0, ISRA must have a facility to enable the Standard Settlement Configurations and associated data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent, to be entered manually (see requirement 2.0) | PTF Change Request 156, 290v4 | EPDs 2.2.1 to 2.2.5, 2.2.8, 2.2.9 |
5.16 | M | In addition to requirement 5.13, ISRA must have the facility to allow the ISR Agent to produce daily totals of Profile Coefficients for a specified GSP Group and for each Settlement Day in a range of Settlement Days, in response to a request from a Data Collector. | Change Request 7 (Implementation Team) Change Request 316 | EPD 2.4.2 |
5.17 | | This Requirement is no longer used | | |
5.18 | | This Requirement is no longer used | | |
5.19 | M | ISRA must be able to receive and load Settlement Timetable data from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. The data must be validated as described in Process 1.5 of the Data Flow Model. No automatic deletions must be allowed as part of the load process. | CR R1318 | EPD 1.5 |
5.20 | M | ISRA must be able to receive and load Settlement Day and Line Loss Factor Class data from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. The data must be validated as described in Process 2.6 of the Data Flow Model. No automatic deletions must be allowed as part of the load process. | CR R1335 | EPD 2.6 |
5.21 | M | ISRA must be able to receive and load Stage 2 BM Unit registration data from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. The data must be validated as described in Process 2.6 of the Data Flow Model. No automatic deletions must be allowed as part of the load process. | CR R2641 | EPD 1.6 |
5.22 | M | ISRA must be able to receive and hold NHH BM Unit allocations from Suppliers. | CR R2641 | EPD 1.3.8 |
5.23 | M | ISRA must accept and use data from only one file per GSP Group per SSR Run from each Data Aggregator. This file may be in BM Unit format or non-BM Unit format. | CR R2641 | EPD 1.1.3 |
5.24 | M | All interfaces with NETA central service providers, CDCA and SAA, must generate acknowledgement receipts. This is an operational requirement rather than a software requirement. | CR R2585 | EPD 1.1 to EPD 1.6 |
5.25 | M | ISRA must store an audit record of any standing data changes resulting from files received electronically from HH Data Aggregators or from Non-HH Data Aggregators as described in Processes 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 of the Data Flow Model respectively. | CP1093 | E.P.D 1.1.3, E.P.D 1.1.4 |
5.26 | M | ISRA must have the facility to load Final Dispute Expected Aggregation data from a file provided by BSCCo as described in Process 1.3.10 of the Data Flow Model | CP1478 | EPD 1.3 |
5.4 Non-Functional Requirements
The non-functional requirements for ISRA are in essence those concerned with Audit, Security and Control. Operational requirements and Design Constraints are covered in separate sections.
These requirements support the following principle:
6. ISRA will be a fully auditable system and will be capable of storing and retrieving data to allow the review and, if necessary, the re-running of the calculations for any Settlement Day for at least two years after the Settlement Day.
Audit requirements will impact ISRA in the following areas:
audit and control of data used which is entered on-line through a manual interface;
the final data aggregation, deemed take and purchase calculations;
production of reports for Suppliers and auditors showing data used in production of purchase calculations;
retention of inputs used in calculation of deemed take and Supplier Purchases;
indication of which Existing Settlement run provided the pricing data for a Supplier Purchase calculation.
There are some requirements that support the principle that ISRA should be able to re-create the results of any of its calculation processes when repeated with the same input data. They are included here with the Audit requirements, as they support the same high-level principle.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
6.1 | M | ISRA must apply version controls to all data received. It must ensure that all data received has date and version stamps attached to it, identifying the SSR run and settlement day to which it relates (for data supplied in support of an SSR run). | Pool Auditor CR309 | Logical Design |
6.2 | M | ISRA must store the following timestamps against incoming data: File Creation Timestamp (to ensure files are loaded in correct order) File Received Timestamp (date and time at which file was detected in input directory, for audit purposes) File Processed Timestamp (date and time at which file was processed, for audit purposes) | Pool Auditor CR309 | Logical Design |
6.3 | M | ISRA must perform checks that the date and version stamps on data received are consistent with each other and with the data, and report any discrepancies to the party supplying the data. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
6.4 | M | ISRA must apply version controls to all data that it outputs. It must ensure that all data output has date and version stamps attached to it, identifying the SSR run and settlement day to which it relates (for data supplied in support of an SSR run), and the date and time at which it was output by ISRA. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
6.5 | M | ISRA must undertake validation and checking wherever practical and possible for reasonableness, range or actual value and must produce appropriate error, warning and inconsistency reports. (Refer also to the more specific validation requirements, listed in the interfaces section of the Requirements Catalogue and to requirement 6.13 and 6.14 below.) | Security and Control Framework | Detailed in interfaces requirements |
6.6 | M | ISRA must be designed to facilitate the common use of coding between the Existing Settlement and the ISRA System, in particular for Supplier Codes and Pool Member Codes. | EPFAL | Common codes (to be defined) |
6.7 | M | ISRA must supply sufficient information (including the CDCA Set Number) to SAA to enable them to reconcile ISRA output with the output from CDCA. | EPFAL, Security and Control Framework | Detailed in reporting requirements |
6.8 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
6.9 | M | For all reports produced by ISRA, it must be clear what input data was used and to which trading day the report relates | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
6.10 | M | The data defining particular SSR runs must be sufficient to allow the run to be linked to the relevant CDCA run that provided certain of the data used. | Pool Auditor, Security and Control Framework | LDM |
6.11 | M | The system must facilitate the re-performance of program calculations including provision of electronic data to the Pool Auditor. | Pool Auditor, Security and Control Framework | Logical Design |
6.12 | M | An audit trail must be provided for the SSR run process. | Security and Control Framework | Physical design |
6.13 | M | ISRA must archive the data for that trading day if that day is subject to the Archive Criteria. | Security and Control Framework | Function ‘Archive ISRA Data’ |
6.14 | M | ISRA must enable dispute final reconciliation runs to be performed up to 24 months after the final reconciliation, subject to appropriate authorisation and controls. | Security and Control Framework | (Logical Design) |
6.15 | M | The system must be capable of holding the standing data that is entered into ISRA through a manual on-line interface for as long as it is valid and for as long as required to support Reconciliation runs up to 24 months. | Pool Auditor | (Logical Design) |
6.16 | M | ISRA must check that the values of all numeric fields input to the system lie within pre-defined valid ranges. If they do not, the system must either refuse to accept the data, or issue a warning message, as defined during Logical Design. This check must also be applied to key calculated values, as defined during Logical Design. It must be possible to specify the valid range for each attribute at the time the system is installed. | Pool Auditor, ISR Expert Group | Logical Design |
6.17 | H | ISRA must provide an on-line screen allowing the ISRA Operations Supervisor to change the valid range for each numeric field (see requirement 6.17). An Effective Date must be supplied for each change, in order to allow the valid ranges to change over time. | ISR Expert Group | Logical Design |
6.18 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
6.19 | M | ISRA must facilitate read access to: | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
6.20 | H | ISRA should provide ad hoc reporting facilities for all data for audit purposes. These reports must be available in both man and machine readable format and in printed and electronic form. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
6.21 | M | Standing data produced during Daily Profile Production to be used for a Settlement Day must be finalised prior to the final run of Initial Settlement and under normal circumstances must not be updated thereafter. Thus the Daily Profile Production run cannot be rerun after final Initial Settlement. | BRT, Change Request 094 | Logical Design |
6.22 | M | Standing data errors that are identified after the Initial Settlement run must only be corrected through a rigorous change control procedure in accordance with Agreed Procedures. ISRA must provide facilities to enable such data to be changed only with suitable authorisation. It is recognised that changes to some data items after the Initial Settlement run may invalidate the Period Profile Class Coefficients and Daily Profile Coefficients that have been calculated. | BRT & Pool Auditor Change Request 310 | Logical Design |
6.23 | M | Standing data changes made through the change control procedure mentioned in 6.6.22 must result in the automatic production of an audit report. The audit report should indicate where a change to a standing data item may invalidate one or more sets of Period Profile Class Coefficients or Daily Profile Coefficients. | BRT & Pool Auditor Change Request 310 | Logical Design |
5.4.2 Security and Control Requirements
The requirements in this group support the following principle:
7. ISRA will comply with Pool’s 1998 Programme security and control framework and the Pool’s 1998 Programme’s standard codes and naming conventions.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
7.1 | M | The technological infrastructure used for ISRA must provide secure and timely data and information transfers between constituent modules of ISRA, as well as between ISRA and the external modules. | Security and Control Framework | Physical design |
7.2 | M | Controls must be provided to ensure that data is transferred completely between separate ISRA modules; data systems that receive data from ISRA can check that the data has been completely and accurately received; and different versions of transferred data can be accurately identified and tracked. | Pool Auditor, Security and Control Framework | Physical design |
7.3 | H | ISRA should be compliant with BS7799 (Code of Practice for Information Security Management). | Security and Control Framework | Physical design |
7.4 | M | Appropriate facilities must be provided to allow the archival (and retrieval) of all input data files received by ISRA from feeder systems. This data must be retained for a minimum of twenty-eight months. | Security and Control Framework | Function ‘Archive ISRA Data’ and Physical design |
7.5 | M | Appropriate facilities must be provided to allow the archival (and retrieval) of all data entered directly into the system by the ISR Agent. This data must be retained for a minimum of twenty-eight months. | Security and Control Framework | Function ‘Archive ISRA Data’ and Physical design |
7.6 | D | Appropriate facilities should be provided to allow the archival (and retrieval) of all output files generated during the operation of the system. This data should be retained for a minimum of twenty-eight months. | Security and Control Framework | Function ‘Archive ISRA Data’ and Physical design |
7.7 | M | ISRA must provide facilities to control access and operation rights of users and groups of users, e.g. to modify any data received into the system (Exact access rules and controls to be defined, in conjunction with the owners of the data). | Pool Auditor, Security and Control Framework | Logical and Physical Design |
7.8 | M | Where changes are made to standing data, the system must maintain audit trails so that the change can be tracked, and must provide reporting for all on-line input. Tracking details must include: - the identity of the user who made the change; - the nature of the change; and - the date and time of the change. Access control for such facilities must be commensurate with the risk. Management controls and procedures (such as Service Level Agreements) must be in place to ensure changes are made in a timely fashion. | Pool Auditor, Security and Control Framework | Logical and Physical Design |
7.9 | D | ISRA should monitor for possible attempts to breach security, and should be able to report on them. (Exact monitoring rules to be agreed and defined.) | Pool Auditor, Security and Control Framework | Logical and Physical Design |
7.10 | M | ISRA must provide audit facilities to track any changes to data between Initial Settlement and any of the subsequent reconciliation runs for any trading day. These trails should only be output when specifically requested by a suitably authorised operator. | Audit team, Security and Control Framework | Logical Design |
7.11 | M | ISRA must be able to supply data from archive for any trading day up to twenty-eight months later, in printed and electronic form, both to support the disputes procedure and for Audit purposes. | OF 488 Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.12 | D | ISRA should retain all input data and software used for a trading day until twenty-eight months after the trading day, in a form in which it can readily be reused to repeat an SSR run for the trading day, both to support the disputes procedure and for Audit purposes. | OF 488 Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.13 | M | ISRA must retain all input data and software used for a trading day until two years after the trading day, such that it is easily accessible and in a form in which it can be reused to repeat an SSR run for the trading day. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.14 | D | ISRA should retain, on-line, all input and output data for a trading day until two years after the trading day. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.15 | M | ISRA must provide access controls on data input, with controllable access levels allowing greatest security to be maintained for only the most critical data. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.16 | M | ISRA must provide access controls on reporting, with controllable access levels allowing greatest security to be maintained for only the most sensitive reports. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.17 | M | ISRA must support the 1998 programme in ensuring the consistency of shared standing data across all 1998 systems. | Pool Auditor | Logical Design |
7.18 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.19 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.20 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.21 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.22 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.23 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.24 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.25 | M | All reports produced by ISRA must be made available in both man and machine readable formats. All reports must be made available in both printed and electronic form. | EPFAL, ISR UAG | Logical Design |
7.26 | | This Requirement is no longer used. | | |
7.27 | M | Performance Measurement for Non Half hourly Data Aggregators must include reports of the number of times aggregators fail to send SPM files and Performance Measurement for Half hourly Data Aggregators must include reports of the number of times aggregators fail to send HH metering files. | Change Request 231 | Logical Design |
5.5 Operational Requirements
5.5.1 Operational Requirements
These requirements support the following principle:
8. The design and implementation of ISRA shall not prevent the system, given an appropriate hardware environment, being operated to meet the prescribed settlement and reconciliation schedule.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
8.1 | M | It must be possible to run ISRA Final Reconciliation for any Settlement Day, up to 24 months after the Settlement Day. | OF 488 ISR UAG | Logical and Physical Design |
8.2 | M | It must be possible to rerun ISRA for any settlement day, up to 24 months after the Settlement Day. | OF 488 ISR UAG | Logical and Physical Design |
8.3 | D | Beyond Final Reconciliation, it should be possible to do runs of ISRA, in support of the disputes procedure or for audit purposes up to 7 years after the Settlement Day. | OF 488 ISR UAG | Logical and Physical Design |
8.4 | M | ISRA must not permit reconciliation runs after Final Reconciliation for any reason other than: | OF 488 ISR UAG | Logical and Physical Design |
8.5 | M | The set of calculations in ISRA to apply profile shapes and line losses, calculate the deemed take for each BM Unit must be performed in discrete units, called runs. Each run of SSR must process the data for the selected GSP Groups for a single whole settlement day. A settlement day is measured in local clock time. | OF 459, 479, 482, 483 Change Request 058 | LDM and EPDs 1.4.1 to 1.4.13 |
8.6 | M | ISRA must be able to process specified volumes of business events (indicated in the annexe) e.g. receipt of data from Data Aggregators, when run in the proposed hardware and software environment. | OF 204, 205 | Physical design |
8.7 | M | ISRA must be able to process specified volumes of settlement (indicated in the annexe) e.g. number of Suppliers, number of timeswitch instructions, when run in the proposed hardware and software environment. | OF 205 | Physical design |
8.8 | M | ISRA must be able to process specified volumes of standing data, detailed and explained in the annexe, e.g. profiles, when run in the proposed hardware and software environment. ISRA must be able to achieve this without breaching any software limits, array limits, or performance requirements. | URS Team | Physical design |
8.9 | M | The ISRA system and its proposed hardware and software environment must not have any constraints on the variability of the volumes of data and events that it must handle for an SSR run or in a day. For example the number of Suppliers, or the number of time patterns, could vary greatly between SSR runs executed on the same day. | URS Team | Physical design |
8.10 | M | The ISRA system and its proposed hardware and software environment must be scaleable, i.e. must not prevent volumes of data in excess of those specified in the annexe being processed, and must not cause the cost to escalate out of proportion to the increase in the volumes of data and of processing. | URS Team | Physical design |
8.11 | M | ISRA must be able to meet the published Settlement Timetable. A schedule of runs must be defined by Pool members, but is expected to be set at 1 Settlement and 4 Reconciliation runs for each Settlement Day. | OF 493, Change Request 94 | Physical design |
8.12 | M | ISRA must, in a working day, be able to complete 3 days of Settlement Runs to allow for weekends. | ISR Expert Group | Physical Design |
8.13 | H | To allow for one day bank holidays ISRA should be capable of performing 24 runs (3 days) during a working day. | ISR Expert Group | Physical design |
8.14 | D | To allow for the major bank holidays, ISRA should be capable of performing 30 runs (4 days) during a working day. | ISR Expert Group | Physical design |
8.15 | M | Each run of SSR must use the most recent data available at the time from the Half Hourly and Non-HH Data Aggregators. | OF 485 | EPDs 1.1.3, 1.1.4 |
8.16 | M | ISRA must always be able to complete the Final Initial Settlement run, and deliver the required data to SAA to allow Settlement within agreed timescales. In doing this ISRA must operate within the constraint of the published Settlements Timetable. | OF 432 | Physical design, Settlement Timetable to be defined |
8.17 | M | ISRA must make available the validated daily profile totals to the Non-HH Data Collectors for each GSP Group, for each Settlement Day, for all settlement classes in use on the Settlement Day, in accordance with the published Settlement Timetable. | ISR UAG | Physical design |
8.18 | M | For each Settlements Class on each Settlement Day, the ISRA daily profile totals must be the exact sum of the half hourly Profile Coefficients. | OF Appendix A, ISR UAG | EPD 2.4.2 |
8.19 | M | The half hourly profile weights used by ISRA to profile the aggregated EAC and AA data must be reported to Suppliers on a daily basis. | OF 408, ISR UAG | EPD 2.4.1 |
8.20 | M | ISRA must ensure that profile weights for a Settlement Day are not amended after Final Initial Settlement. | ISR UAG | EPD 2.3.1 |
8.21 | M | If one or more Data Aggregators (or other Suppliers of data required for an SSR run) fail to supply valid, timely, and complete data, ISRA must default the data as described in process 1.4.1 and issue a report as outlined in that process. | BRT | EPD 1.4.1 |
8.22 | M | The language to be used for all user interfaces in ISRA must be English. | URS Team | Later stages of ISRA development |
8.23 | M | The ISRA system must meet defined service levels such that the system can satisfy the operational, scalability and capacity requirements stated in this section. The system must be able to run on every business day, it must be capable of running for every calendar day, for each type of Settlement. | URS Team | Logical and Physical Design |
8.24 | M | The ISRA system must provide facilities e.g. (backup, restore and restarting of jobs) to allow recovery following hardware failure or other unexpected errors. | Security & Control Framework | Logical and Physical Design |
The full definition and the physical attributes of the interfaces with external component systems will be available at the end of the Logical Design stage.
5.6.1 Design Constraints - Interfaces and Effect on Related Systems
These requirements support the following principle:
9. The design and implementation of the ISRA will not adversely constrain the operation and performance of Central Data Collection Systems or the production of TUoS charges.
Requirement number | Status | Description | Source of requirement | Resolution / Cross reference |
9.1 | M | ISRA, its software, its proposed hardware, and its interfaces, must be compatible with the Systems architecture. | OF Section 6 | Logical and Physical Design, Systems architecture when defined |
9.2 | M | There must be no loss of data or detrimental effect on any other systems when ISRA is unavailable. | URS Team | Physical design |
9.3 | M | ISRA software, its proposed hardware, and its interfaces, must not compromise the integrity of the Trading Arrangements- their business processes, software, data, and their operating environment. | OF 304d | Existing systems and processes, and later stages of development of ISRA |
5.7 Annex To Requirements Catalogue
5.7.1 Capacity requirements
Requirements Catalogue entries 8.8.6 to 8.8.8 state that ISRA must be able to process the volumes of business events, settlement data and standing data that will be imposed by the 1998 trading arrangements. This annex sets out those capacity requirements in more detail.
The ISRA system capacity requirements are described in three ways:
Estimates of total data storage capacity for 2 years within a GSP Group, showing total number of occurrence of each entity which must be held for 2 years
Estimates of input flows
Estimates of output flows.
5.7.1.1 Total Capacity Requirements
The data storage capacity requirements of the ISRA are shown in the following table. Four figures are given for the number of occurrences of each entity that will need to be held in the ISRA system:
expected initial volumes
a mandatory capacity, twice the initial expected volumes
a desirable capacity, based on 10x expected initial volumes
a desirable capacity, based on the maximum volume of data envisaged
For some of the larger values, the abbreviation “m” is used to denote millions.
Footnote references are explained at the end of the table.
Appendix F gives the underlying estimates from which these figures have been derived.
Non-functional considerations, such as maintaining version histories for data and maintaining audit trails will also impose additional capacity requirements. No allowance has been made for these in the figures give in this table.
Entity (grouped by data source) | Initial Volumes | Mandatory (Initial x2) | Desirable (Initial x10) | Desirable (based on max vols) | Footnote |
1. Data Received From the SSA | | | | | |
GSP Group Take | 70,176 | 140,352 | 701,760 | 350,880 | |
SSA Settlement Runs | 1,462 | 2,924 | 14,620 | 7,310 | |
2. Other Daily Input Data | | | | | |
Daily Profile Parameters | 731 | 1,462 | 7,310 | 731 | |
Supplier Data Aggregation | 254,388 | 508,776 | 2,543,880 | 29,240,000 | ** |
Supplier Purchase Matrix | 136 m | 272 m | 1,362 m | 175,440 m | ** |
Teleswitch Contact Interval | 3,840 | 7,680 | 38,400 | 131,072 | |
Aggregated Supplier DA Period Consumption | 80 m | 160 m | 800 m | 7,017 m | ** |
3. Data received From Distributors | | | | | |
Line Loss Factor Class | 15 | 30 | 150 | 150 | |
Settlement Period Line Loss Factor Class | 70,176 | 140,352 | 701,760 | 1,754,400 | |
4. Data Received from the Profile Administrator | | | | | |
Day Types (Regression equations) | 7 | 14 | 70 | 20 | |
Period Regression Equation | 15,120 | 30,240 | 151,200 | 3,840,000 | |
Profile Regression Equation Set | 315 | 630 | 3,150 | 80,000 | |
Seasons (Regression Equations) | 5 | 10 | 50 | 10 | |
5. Data received from the Market Domain Data Agent (‘Pool Market Domain Data’) | | | | | |
BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group | 450 | 900 | 4500 | 4000 | |
Clock Intervals | 2,140 | 4,280 | 21,400 | 8,000 | |
Consumption Component Class | 19 | 38 | 190 | 50 | |
Day Types (Clock Intervals) | 7 | 14 | 70 | 20 | |
Measurement Quantity | 4 | 8 | 40 | 10 | |
Measurement Requirement | 1,070 | 2,140 | 10,700 | 4,000 | |
Profile | 9 | 18 | 90 | 20 | |
Profile Classes | 8 | 16 | 80 | 20 | |
Seasons (Clock Intervals) | 5 | 10 | 50 | 100 | |
Settlement | 4,386 | 8,772 | 17,544 | 7,310 | |
Settlement Class | 4,284 | 8,568 | 42,840 | 800,000 | |
Standard Settlement Configuration | 482 | 964 | 4,820 | 2,500 | |
Teleswitch Contact Rule | 1140 | 2280 | 11,400 | 163,840 | |
Teleswitch Register Rule | 640 | 1,280 | 6,400 | 40,960 | |
Teleswitch Group | 320 | 640 | 3,200 | 4096 | |
Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime | 640 | 1,280 | 6,400 | 8,192 | |
Time Pattern Regime | 1,070 | 2,140 | 10,700 | 4,000 | |
Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class | 2,142 | 4,284 | 21,420 | 16,000 | |
Valid Standard Settlement Configuration Profile Class | 820 | 1,640 | 8,200 | 4,000 | |
6. Calculated Data | | | | | |
Basic Period Profile Coefficients | 315,792 | 631,584 | 3,157,920 | 14,035,200 | * |
Combined Period Profile Coefficients | 12.5 m | 25 m | 125 m | 70 m | * |
Daily Profile Coefficients | 1,565,802 | 3,131,604 | 15,658,020 | 11,696,000 | * |
GSP Group Correction Factor | 210,528 | 421,056 | 2,105,280 | 350,880 | * |
Period Profile Class Coefficients | 75 m | 150 m | 750 m | 561 m | * |
Period Supplier Purchase | 1,017,552 | 2,035,104 | 10,175,520 | 7,017,600 | * |
Period Time Pattern State | 37.5 m | 75 m | 375 m | 140 m | * |
Teleswitch Interval | 960 | 1,920 | 9,600 | 32,768 | * |
Aggregated BM Unit Period Consumption | 37 m | 74 m | 370 m | 1,754 m | * |
Aggregated Supplier Period Consumption | 37 m | 74 m | 370 m | 1,754 m | * |
7. ISRA Standing Data | | | | | |
Data Aggregator Registration | 58 | 116 | 580 | 4,000 | |
Data Aggregators (HH) | 29 | 58 | 290 | 2,000 | |
Data Aggregators (Non HH) | 15 | 30 | 150 | 2,000 | |
Data Collectors (Non HH) | 100 | 200 | 1,000 | 2,000 | |
Distributor | 4 | 8 | 40 | 40 | |
GSP Group | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |
GSP Group Corr Scaling Factor | 29 | 57 | 285 | 75 | |
GSP Group Distributor | 6 | 12 | 60 | 60 | |
NHH BM Unit Allocation | 139 | 278 | 1390 | 7246 | |
SSR Run Type | 6 | 12 | 60 | 10 | |
Supplier | 29 | 58 | 290 | 200 | |
Supplier In GSP Group | 29 | 58 | 290 | 400 | |
Clock Time Change | 4 | 8 | 40 | 4 | |
8. Data generated for runs | | | | | |
Profile Production Run | 1,462 | 2,924 | 14,620 | 7,310 | |
Settlement | 4,386 | 8,772 | 43,860 | 7,310 | |
Settlement Day | 731 | 1,462 | 7,310 | 731 | |
Settlement Period | 35,088 | 70,176 | 350,880 | 35,088 | |
SSR Run | 4,386 | 8,772 | 43,860 | 7,310 | |
* Derived data for individual runs, which need not be kept 'on-line' once the SSR or DPP run to which it relates has been completed, provided that it is easily recreatable and available for reporting and audit purposes.
** Input data, to which the same conditions apply, and which must also be available for use as 'default' when no data has been received from a feeder system for a specific run.
5.7.1.2 Estimates of Input Flows
The ISRA system capacity requirements in terms of the flows of data into the system is shown in the following table. It is derived from figures given in Appendix F. Some of the columns require some explanation:
the second column contains ‘e’ if flow is electronic and ‘m’ if flow is manual (‘e/m’ if it can be both)
the third column gives the number of feeder systems which may supply data
initial capacity (Column 4) is used to determine the mandatory requirement: the system must be able to cope with twice this amount
maximum capacity (Column 5) is used to determine the desirable capacity requirement: the system should be able to cope with this amount, or 10 time the initial capacity, whichever is the greater
column 6 shows the timeframe to which the estimates relate, e.g. per run, per year
The final column contains ‘E’ for estimated values and ‘A’ for actual values.
Flows In | E/M | No. of source systems | Initial Capacity | Maximum Capacity | Per | Source | Reason / notes | A/E |
1. Daily Profile Production | | | | | | | | |
Actual Noon Temperature | m | 1 | 1 | 1 | Profile Production run | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
Calendar details | m | 1 | 2 | 2 | annum | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
GSP Group details | m | 1 | 1 | 5 | annum | URS team | 1-5 per GSP Group | E |
Profile Class Details | m | 1 | 1 | 5 | annum | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
Profiling Run Request | m | 1 | 1 | 1 | Profile Production run | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
Regression Equations | e | 1 | 1 | 5 | annum | URS team | assume all regression equations reissued once per annum, initially( 17,520 entries per occurrence) Max = assume all reissued 5 times per annum ( each occurrence 192,000 entries) | E |
Standing Configuration Data (TPR, MR, SSC changes) | e | 1 | 2 | 100 | annum | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
Teleswitch Contact Interval | e | 1 | 3,840 | 131,072 | UTC Day | URS team | | E |
Time of sunset | e | 1 | 365 | 366 | annum | URS team | | E |
2. Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation | | | | | | | | |
Settlement data | e | 1 | 48 | 50 | SSR Run | URS team | | E |
Line Loss Class Factors | e | 1 | 40,320 | 58 m | annum | URS team | assume all reissued once per year, so max may be = LLF Classes(2-50)* Settlmt Periods in day(48)* day types(7-20)* seasons (5-100) per GSP Group | E |
SPM Data | e | Init:12 Max: 400 | 6,426 | 1.2 m | Non HH DA Run | URS team | See entity sheet | E |
LL Adjusted Aggregated Meter Data (HH) | e | Init:29 Max: 2000 | 15,312 | 1.2 m | HH DA Run | URS team | 1 per Supplier, per CCC, per BM Unit, per HH Data Aggregator, per HH, for HH CCCs only. Initially: 29 Suppliers 11 CCCs 1 HH DA Maximum: 200 Suppliers 25 CCCs HH DAs (48 periods per entry) | E |
Standing Data Changes | m | 1 | 10 | 100 | annum | URS team | assume 10% standing data changes per annum | E |
Report Parameters | m | 1 | 1 | 1 | SSR Report Run | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
Request for SSR Run | m | 1 | 1 | 1 | SSR Run | URS team | per GSP Group | E |
5.7.1.3 Estimates of Output Flows
The ISRA system capacity requirements in terms of the flows of data out of the system is shown in the following table. It is derived from figures given in Appendix F. Three of the columns require a little explanation:
initial capacity (Column 4) is the basis for the mandatory requirement: the system must be able to cope with twice this amount
maximum capacity (Column 5) is the basis for the desirable capacity requirement: the system should be able to cope with this amount, or 10 times the initial capacity, whichever is the greater
column 6 shows the timeframe to which the estimates relate, e.g. per SSR run.
column 8 indicates whether the capacity requirements are actual (A) or estimated (E).
Note: All of the capacity figures in the table are per GSP Group.
Flows Out | Recipients | Number of Recipients | Initial Capacity | Maximum Capacity | Per | Source | A/E |
Daily Profile Totals | NHHDC | Init =12 Max=400 | 1 | 1 | Profile Production Run | URS Team | E |
Profiling Reports | Suppliers + NHHDCs | Init:29 +12 Max: 200 +400 | 1 | 1 | Profile Production Run | URS Team | E |
TUoS Report | NETSO TUoS | 1 | 1 | 1 | SSR Run | URS Team | A |
SSR Reports | Suppliers | Init: 29 Max: 400 | 7 | 17 | SSR Reports Run | URS Team | E |
Pool Reports | Pool | 1 | 3 | 15 | Quarter | URS Team | E |
Pool Reports | Pool | 1 | 1 | 1 | Adhoc | URS Team | E |
Error reports | DA Supplier Distributor | 29 29 1 | 10 | 50 | DPP or SSR Run | URS Team | E |
DUoS Report | Distributor Suppliers | 5 29 | 34 | 34 | SSR Run | URS Team | E |
5.7.1.4 BM Unit Capacity Requirements
The ISRA system capacity requirements in terms of BM Units are such that the software should be able to support 4000 Supplier BM Units. The number of these that are Additional BM Units as opposed to Base BM Units depends upon the number of Stage 2 Suppliers. The ISRA system allows for a maximum of 200 Suppliers, requiring 200*12 = 2400 Base BM Units. The minimum number of Stage 2 BM Units available for use in the Balancing Mechanism is therefore 4000 – 2400 =1600. If the number of Suppliers was only 100, the number of additional BM Units available for use would increase to 4000 – 1200=2800.
1. The ISR Data Flow Model describes the processes which comprise the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency (ISRA) system. It also details the flows of data between these processes, and those to and from organisations or processes which are outside the scope of ISRA (External Entities).
2. The model provides a view of the functionality required of the ISRA system for each GSP Group. It is a logical not a physical model and shows, for example, what data is required from an external entity not how it is obtained.
3. The model consists of:
a series of Data Flow Diagrams - a top level diagram which is decomposed into a number of lower level, more-detailed diagrams;
a cross reference between the top level Data Flow Model and the Business Process Model in the Operational Framework (reference 1);
descriptions of the Elementary Processes (EPDs), that is the processes which appear on the lowest level diagrams;
descriptions of the dataflows to and from the external entities;
descriptions of the datastores, including cross references to the relevant entities in the Logical Data Structure;
descriptions of the external entities.
4. Descriptions of the data items populating the data flows is given in Appendix B.
5. A key to the Data Flow Diagram notation used is given in Appendix D.
Definitions of terms and the mathematical notation used in the process descriptions can be found in the Glossary (reference 10).
6.2 Data Flow Diagrams and Elementary Process Descriptions
6.2.1 Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency
6.2.2 Process 1 - Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
6.2.3 Process 1.1 - Marshal Incoming Data
This set of processes runs intermittently, on the receipt of incoming data, to validate and load the data ready for use in the main SSR calculations (process 1.4). As stated in the system assumptions section, SSR expects the data to be provided in accordance with the published settlement timetable.
6.2.3.1 Process 1.1.1 - Validate Settlements Data
This process performs data marshalling of data from the CDCA system. The data is GSP group data and CDCA Set Number.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure:
Physical integrity
Any data for Settlement Dates and times which are already within the system must be a later version than that in the system
The data has the correct number of Settlement Periods
The data is for the correct GSP Group(s)
That the file, if it is for a Scottish GSP Group, will not be loaded if the Settlement date is before the BETTA start date.
Any invalid data or rounding discrepancies will be reported to the CDCA and the ISR Agent. If any of the discrepancies are greater than the tolerances the files will be rejected for processing.
If the data is valid, then the GSP Group Take and CDCA Set Number will be written to the Trading Day Data datastore.
6.2.3.2 Process 1.1.2 - Validate Line Loss Factors
This process performs data marshalling of Line Loss Factors from the Distributor. It is expected that this data will be sent annually.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure:
Physical integrity
The files are received in the correct sequence
Any data for Settlement dates and times which are already within the system must be a later version than that in the system
The data has the correct number of Settlement Periods
The data is for the correct distributor(s)
The data is for the correct line loss factor classes
Any invalid data or out of sequence files will be reported to the Distributor and the ISR Agent.
If the data is valid, the data will be written to the Trading Day Data datastore.
6.2.3.3 Process 1.1.3 - Validate HH Data
This process performs data marshalling of aggregated half hourly meter data from the Half Hourly Data Aggregator. The file that is sent by the Half Hourly Data Aggregator will depend on whether Additional BM Units have been implemented. If they have, the HHDA will send a BM Unit Aggregated Half Hour Data File (D0298) to ISRA, whereas if they have not, the HHDA will send an Aggregated Half Hour Data File (D0040). The HHDA, however, will not send both for a given Settlement and GSP Group. Where a Demand Control Event has occurred, the HHDA may submit a separate Demand Disconnection Volume Data (D0376) reporting those volumes associated with any disconnection. The received data must be aggregated to GSP Group, Supplier, Consumption Component Class, BM Unit and Settlement Period.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure:
The file is not a null file
Physical integrity
Any data for Settlement dates and times which are already within the system must be a later version than that in the system
The data has the correct number of Settlement Periods
The data is for the correct GSP Group(s)
The file is from an expected Data Aggregator, i.e. a Data Aggregator who has an appointment to the GSP Group on the Settlement Date for which the data relates. If not, an exception entry will be written.
The file only contains data for the expected set of Suppliers, i.e. only Suppliers who have an association with the Data Aggregator on the Settlement Date / GSP Group combination of the file. If not then an exception entry will be written.
The file contains data for the full set of expected Suppliers, i.e. all Suppliers who have an association with the Data Aggregator on the Settlement Date / GSP Group combination of the file. If not then an exception entry will be written.
That the combination of Supplier and GSP Group has a valid Base BM Unit. If not then the file will be loaded into the flat files and a warning produced.
That there is no duplicated Supplier / GSP Group / consumption component class combinations.
That the additional BM Units referenced in the D0298 flow are valid. If not then the file will be loaded into the flat files and a warning produced.
That the file, if it is for a Scottish GSP Group, will not be loaded if the Settlement date is before the BETTA start date.
Any Standing Data changes resulting from the file load will be stored as an audit record.
Any invalid data will be reported to the HH Data Aggregator, ELEXON and the ISR Agent.
If the data is valid, the data will then undergo the following validation checks:
The total consumption volume per file will be compared to the equivalent total from the comparator data and the difference calculated.
The total MSID count per file will be compared to the equivalent total from the comparator data and the difference calculated.
If this difference lies outside of tolerances set by BSCCo, the file will be quarantined pending confirmation from the HH Data Aggregator that the variance is correct.
If the data passes the validation checks, the data will be written to the Supplier HH Demand datastore, with the consumption component class set appropriately.
6.2.3.4 Process 1.1.4- Validate SPM Data
This process performs data marshalling of Supplier purchase matrix data (including any Disconnection purchase matrix data) from the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure:
The file is not a null file
Physical integrity
Any data for Settlement dates and times which are already within the system must be a later version than that in the system
The data is for the correct GSP Group(s)
The file is from an expected Data Aggregator, i.e. a Data Aggregator who has an appointment to the GSP Group on the Settlement Date for which the data relates. If not, an exception entry will be written.
The file only contains data for the expected set of Suppliers, i.e. only the Suppliers who have an association with the Data Aggregator on the Settlement Date / GSP Group combination of the file. If not then an exception entry will be written.
The file contains data for the full set of expected Suppliers, i.e. all Suppliers who have an association with the Data Aggregator on the Settlement Date / GSP Group combination of the file. If not then an exception entry will be written.
The data is for the correct Profile Classes
The data is for the correct line loss factor classes
The data is for the correct measurement requirements
That the combination of Supplier and GSP Group has a valid Base BM Unit. If not then the file will be loaded into the flat files and a warning produced.
That for each combination of Supplier and GSP Group the file contains no more than one instance of a particular Profile Class / distributor / line loss factor class / Standard Settlement Configuration / time pattern regime combination.
That there is no duplicated Supplier / GSP Group / consumption component class combinations.
That the file, if it is for a Scottish GSP Group, will not be loaded if the Settlement Date is before the BETTA start date.
Any Standing Data changes resulting from the file load will be stored as an audit record.
Any invalid data will be reported to the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator system and the ISR Agent.
If the data is valid, the data will then undergo the following validation checks:
The total consumption volume per file will be compared to the equivalent total from the comparator data and the difference calculated.
The total MSID count per file will be compared to the equivalent total from the comparator data and the difference calculated.
If this difference lies outside of tolerances set by BSCCo, the file will be quarantined pending confirmation from the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator that the variance is correct.
If the data passes the validation checks, the data will be written to the Trading Day Data datastore.
6.2.3.5 Process 1.1.5- Validate Revised GSP Takes
This process is no longer used.
6.2.3.6 Process 1.1.6- Validate Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems
This process performs data marshalling of Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems from the Distributor.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure:
If the data is valid, the data will be written to the Trading Day data store.
6.2.3.7 Process 1.1.7 – Manage Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes
This process performs data marshalling of information relating to Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes from the NETSO.
The incoming data will be validated for physical integrity, and if valid will be issued to HH and NHH Data Collectors for use in their data processing activities.
6.2.4 Process 1.2 - Produce SSR Supplier Reports
6.2.4.1 Process 1.2.1 - Supplier Purchase Matrix report.
This process produces a report for each Supplier, containing details of the Supplier Purchase Matrix occurrences used in the calculation for the most recent settlements run.
In addition, this process also produces a GSP Group Market Matrix Report, created by summing Supplier Purchase Matrix reports over all Suppliers and Data Aggregators. This report is provided to BSCCo.
6.2.4.2 Process 1.2.2 - HH Demand report
This process produces a report for each Supplier, containing details of all the half hourly demand for a Supplier by consumption component class. This will include the profiled and actual demand. If there is any NHH consumption for a GSP Group, then records for all NHH CCCs will be output for that GSP Group.
6.2.4.3 Process 1.2.3 - Deemed Take report
This process produces a report for each Supplier, containing details of the deemed take calculations, including GSP Group Correction.
6.2.4.4 Process 1.2.4 - Supplier Purchases report
This process produces a report for each Supplier, containing details of the Supplier Deemed Take and GSP Group Take for each Settlement Period and the settlement variables used to generate them. The Supplier Purchases values will be set to zero.
The Report includes both derived GSP Group totals and those supplied by the CDCA.
This process will be invoked after each settlement run.
6.2.4.5 Process 1.2.5 - GSP Group Consumption Totals report
This process produces a report for each Supplier, containing GSP Group consumption totals both before and after GSP correction, for GSP Groups in which the Supplier is active. This process will be invoked after each settlement run. If there is any NHH consumption for a GSP Group, then records for all NHH CCCs will be output for that GSP Group.
In addition, this process also produces a variant of the report (BSCCo GSP Group Consumption Totals report) with the same detailed content but omitting the recipient Supplier Id information. This report is generated for Initial Settlement, Final Reconciliation and Dispute Final runs only, and is made available to BSCCo.
6.2.4.6 Process 1.2.6 – Create Recalculated GSP Group Correction Factors Report
This process is no longer used.
6.2.4.7 Process 1.2.7 – Supplier BM Unit report
This process produces a report for each Supplier containing details of the Supplier’s valid BM Units, GSP Group/BM Unit/Profile Class/Standard Settlement Configuration mappings and consumption/generation by BM Unit and Consumption Component Class. If there is any NHH consumption for a GSP Group, then records for all NHH CCCs will be output for that GSP Group.
6.2.4.8 Process 1.2.8 – Supplier Disconnection Matrix report
This contains details of the Disconnection Purchase Matrix occurrences used in the calculation for the specified Settlement Run, i.e. detailed input data from individual NHH Data Aggregators.
6.2.4.9 Process 1.2.9 – HH Demand Disconnection report
This contains details of HH Demand Disconnection values for a Supplier by consumption component class used in the specified Settlement Run. This includes the profiled and actual demand separately: Part 1 of the report contains the result of the GSP Group Aggregation Process; Part 2 contains the detailed input data from HH Data Aggregators.
6.2.4.10 Process 1.2.10 – GSP Group Demand Disconnection report
This contains details of the total disconnected deemed take summed over all Suppliers for each Settlement Period for each Consumption Component Class and GSP Group before and after GSP Group Correction. If a GSP Group Consumption Component Class has no consumption (as distinct from zero consumption), it is omitted. This allows suppliers to verify that the GSP Group Correction Factor has been correctly calculated.
6.2.4.11 Process 1.2.11 – Supplier BM Unit Demand Disconnection report
This contains details of the Supplier’s valid BM Units, Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocations, the Half Hourly demand disconnection energy data input into the system and the combined Half Hourly and Non-Half Hourly demand disconnection energy by BM Unit and Consumption Component Class calculated by the SSR run.
6.2.4.12 Process 1.2.12 – Supplier Quarterly Volume Report
This contains a sum of Suppliers’ energy volumes for the Settlement Days in a calendar quarters, as determined at First Reconciliation, along with the average number of related Metering Systems over the same time period. The data is reported per Supplier and by eight Supplier Volume Reporting Groups, comprising a combination of specified Consumption Component Classes and Profile Classes.
6.2.5 Process 1.3 - Update SSR Standing Data
6.2.5.1 Process 1.3.1 - Maintain Supplier Details
This process will allow the ISR Agent to enter and update details of Suppliers. The Id and Name will be specified for each Supplier.
The system will not allow a Supplier to be deleted if any consumption has been allocated to that Supplier.
Supplier details can be archived only when all consumption allocated to that Supplier has been archived.
6.2.5.2 Process 1.3.2 - Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
This process will allow the ISR Agent to define and amend links between Suppliers and GSP Groups. An Effective From Date and optionally an Effective To Date will be specified for each link. The purpose of entering this data is to allow validation of SPM data received from data aggregators.
6.2.5.3 Process 1.3.3 - Maintain GSP correction Scaling Factors
This process will allow the GSP correction scaling factors used by the SSR system to be entered, updated and deleted where authorised via the appropriate change control procedure.
Each scaling factor will be for a particular Consumption Component Class and effective from date.
6.2.5.4 Process 1.3.4 - Maintain Line Loss Factor codes
This process will allow line loss factor classes to be entered, updated and deleted where authorised via the appropriate change control procedure.
i. Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.6).
6.2.5.5 Process 1.3.5 - Specify Distributor for GSP Group
This process will allow the Distributors in each GSP Group to be specified. The GSP Group Id, Distributor Id and Effective Date will be specified for each assignment.
There must always be at least one distributor assigned to a GSP Group.
The system will not allow a distributor assignment to be changed or deleted except where authorised via the appropriate change control procedure.
6.2.5.6 Process 1.3.6 - Specify Aggregator for GSP Group
This process will allow the Half Hourly and Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator for each combination of GSP Group and Supplier to be specified. The GSP Group Id, Supplier Id, Data Aggregator Id, and Effective From and Effective To Date will be specified.
The system will not allow an aggregator assignment to be changed or deleted except where authorised via the appropriate change control procedure.
6.2.5.7 Process 1.3.7 - Maintain Settlement Timetable
This process will allow details of the published Settlement Timetable to be entered, updated and deleted. Settlements for a range of Settlement Dates, Settlement Codes, Planned SSR Run Dates and Payment Dates are generated.
The system will not allow a Settlement to be amended or deleted if any SSR Run or SSA Settlement Run for the Settlement Day have taken place, and have not yet been archived off.
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 1.5).
6.2.5.8 Process 1.3.8 – Assign NHH BM Units
A Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class is allocated to a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group.
The user adds a new Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation by specifying the GSP Group Id, Supplier Id, BM Unit Id and Effective From Settlement Date of the BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group, the Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class (VSCPC) and the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Effective From Settlement Date {NHHBMUA} and optionally the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Effective To Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}.
The Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation is permitted if:
the BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group exists
the Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class exists
the effective date range of the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation for a combination of GSP Group, Supplier and VSCPC does not overlap any other Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation for the same GSP Group, Supplier and VSCPC (i.e. the combination of GSP Group, Supplier and VSCPC is assigned to only one BM Unit on any one settlement day)
the effective date range of the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation is not outside the effective date range of the BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group.
the effective date range of the of the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation for a combination of GSP Group, Supplier and VSCPC has valid average fraction of yearly consumption data for that period.
6.2.5.9 Process 1.3.9 – Enter BM Units Manually
A BM Unit is manually entered for a Supplier in a GSP Group. The user enters the BM Unit Id, GSP Group Id, Supplier Id, Base BM Unit Flag, the Effective From Settlement Date and optionally the Effective To Settlement Date. Any GSP Group and Supplier combination can be chosen, not just those Suppliers trading in a GSP Group. For a Scottish GSP Group, the Effective From Settlement Date must be on or after the BETTA Start Date.
6.2.5.10 Process 1.3.10 – Maintain Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
This process will allow a user to specify the Half Hourly and Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregators associated with a Dispute Final Settlement Run, in order to ensure that a correct and complete set of aggregated data is received in time for the Run. The Data Aggregator Id, GSP Group and Effective From and Effective To Date will be specified.
In normal practice this information will be loaded from a file prepared by BSCCo and provided to the ISR Agent. Once loaded, the information may be modified further by the ISR Agent as required by BSCCo.
6.2.6 Process 1.4 - Run SSR
6.2.6.1 Process 1.4.1 - Invoke Run
This process will check that the necessary data has been collected for the Settlement Day, i.e. that the appropriate occurrences of the following data items exist:
CDCA Data (GSP Group Take, CDCA Initial Settlement Run);
Supplier Data Aggregation (half hourly data) for all assigned data aggregators;
Supplier Data Aggregation (non-half hourly data) for all assigned data aggregators;
Line Loss Factor Data; and
If any data is missing, determine the action to be taken from the following table. Otherwise, the SSR run will be started:
Data Item | Action |
Line Loss Factors | This situation should not arise as Line Loss Factors are published by the distributor in advance and do not have a ‘effective to’ date. If the file does not contain data for a Line Loss Factor Class which is valid, the file will still be loaded, but any SSR runs requiring the missing data will use a standard default value of 1 (i.e. no line loss). This will be reported in an exceptions report. |
Settlement | The ISRA Operator must select a Settlement Run (i.e. a Settlement Date and Settlement Code) entered in the Settlement Calendar, otherwise a run cannot be invoked. |
CDCA Data (GSP Group Take, SSA Initial Settlement Run) | The run cannot proceed without consistent and complete CDCA Data. If such CDCA Data is not available, the ISRA Operator must select another Settlement Day from which the substitute CDCA data will be taken, as instructed by the Pool Executive Committee (PEC) or its nominated agent. The substitute GSP Group Take and SSA Initial Settlement Run data must all be consistent (i.e. for the same Settlement Day, Settlement Code and CDCA Set Number). |
Non Half Hourly Aggregated Data | The ISRA Operator will be prompted to select the Data Aggregation data to be used as a default for all missing Data Aggregation files. If a file was quarantined following the validation checks and the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator did not confirm whether the file was correct or incorrect, the ISRA Operator will be able to select this quarantined file to use instead of default data. |
Half Hourly Aggregated Data | If data from a HH Data Aggregator has not been received, the ISRA system will continue on the basis of the data selected by the ISR Agent, and will raise an exception report for any data it was expecting and had not received. ISRA will not automatically substitute data, but it must allow the ISR Agent to select a set of historic HH data for a specific Data Aggregator which is to be used for a specific run (e.g. data supplied for an earlier Settlement for the same Settlement Day; or data supplied for another ‘appropriate’ Settlement Day). The ISR Agent will determine what data should be substituted based on Agreed Procedures. If a file was quarantined following the validation checks and the Half Hourly Data Aggregator did not confirm whether the file was correct or incorrect, the ISRA Operator will be able to select this quarantined file to use instead of default data. If no substitute data can be found, the ISRA Operator can let the run proceed without any HH Aggregated Data. |
Profile Production Run | No default action is taken - the run will fail. |
A report will be produced detailing the data used and warning of any missing data.
The ISRA system will check that the all files received from Data Aggregators are expected for the designated run. If there is an unexpected file, the system will give the ISR Agent the option of continuing with the run. If the ISR Agent continues with the SSR run, the ISRA system will ignore the file and its data when performing the SSR run and will issue a warning message giving details.
The ISRA system will check that the latest file that it has received from each Data Aggregator for each GSP Group for the SSR run contains data for all the Suppliers expected to be in the file. If there is a file that does not contain data for all expected Suppliers, the system will update the standing data and continue with the SSR run.
The ISRA system will check that the latest file it has received from each Data Aggregator for each GSP Group for the SSR Run only contains data from Suppliers expected to be in the file. If there is a file that contains data for unexpected Suppliers, the system will update the standing data and continue with the SSR run.
Except for the case where default data has been specified, the ISRA system should only use data from the latest Data Aggregation run for the Settlement Date, Settlement Code and GSP Group for each Data Aggregator.
6.2.7 Process 1.4.8 - Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
6.2.7.1 Process 1.4.8.1 - Profile SPM Data
This process applies the profiles to the Supplier purchase matrix data to produce half hourly consumption estimates for each Supplier and Settlement Class. The half hourly estimates are summed by Data Aggregator and written to the Supplier HH Demand datastore.
For each Supplier, calculate the estimated consumption for each half hour for each Supplier and Settlement Class:
6.2.7.2 Process 1.4.8.2 - Aggregate Profiled Data
This process aggregates the profiled values produced in EPD 1.4.8.1 into values for the following Consumption Component Classes for each BM Unit and Line Loss Factor Class. The appropriate BM Unit to aggregate the profiled SPM data into is derived from the BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group entity and the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation entity. Where the Valid Profile Class Settlement Configuration from the profiled SPM data for each Supplier in the GSP Group has a BM Unit allocated for the Settlement Day, then this BM Unit is used. If there is no BM Unit allocated then the Base BM Unit for the Supplier in GSP Group is used. If the Valid Profile Class Settlement Configuration from the profiled SPM data for a Supplier in the GSP Group does not have a BM Unit allocated for the Settlement Day and the Supplier in GSP Group does not have a Base BM Unit defined, a warning message is logged in the Exception Report and those energy values are excluded from the SSR Run.
where the SSC sum (m) is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Import”
where the SSC sum (m) is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Export”
where the SSC sum (m) is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Import”
where the SSC sum (m) is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Export”
6.2.7.3 Process 1.4.8.3 - Adjust for Line Losses
This process applies the class line losses to the profiled consumption estimates calculated by process 1.8.1. This will be summed by BM Unit to create values for five line loss consumption classes (C). The appropriate BM Unit is derived from the BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group entity and the Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation entity. Where the Valid Profile Class Settlement Configuration from the profiled SPM data for each Supplier in the GSP Group has a BM Unit allocated for the Settlement Day, then this BM Unit is used. If there is no BM Unit allocated then the Base BM Unit for the Supplier in GSP Group is used. If the Valid Profile Class Settlement Configuration from the profiled SPM data for a Supplier in the GSP Group does not have a BM Unit allocated for the Settlement Day and the Supplier in GSP Group does not have a Base BM Unit defined, a warning message is logged in the Exception Report and those energy values are excluded from the SSR Run.
where the SSC sum is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Import”
where the SSC sum is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Export”
where the SSC sum is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Import”
where the SSC sum is over only those SSCs with SSC Type set to “Export”
6.2.8 Process 1.4.9 - Calculate Deemed Take
6.2.8.1 Process 1.4.9.1 - Calculate & Apply GSP Group Correction
This will, on a half hourly basis, adjust appropriate consumption components to ensure that the total consumption from this system equals the actual GSP Group Take provided by SSA.
The requirement as expressed in the Operational Framework (reference 1) is to apply GSP Group Correction only to Line Loss Factored profiled consumption. However, the system will support a more general mechanism, in which a weight Wn is specified for each Consumption Component Class n, specifying the degree to which it is to be corrected.
To calculate Cnijs the values for each Consumption Component Class, BM Unit and Settlement Period in the Aggregated BM Unit Period Consumption entity are summed across BM Unit to create values for Consumption Component Class, Supplier and Settlement Period:
Where Cnij refers to values for all BM Units within a Consumption Component Class and Settlement Period which are assigned to a particular Supplier in the GSP Group.
The unadjusted consumption for Consumption Component Class n, Cnj, is given by summing Cnsj across Suppliers:
Any demand in the following Consumption Component Classes will be subtracted during the summation, as it is generation:
half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems with metering system specific line loss
half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems without metering system specific line loss
line losses attributed to half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems with metering system specific line loss
line losses attributed to half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems without metering system specific line loss
Next, for each Settlement Period in the trading day, the GSP Group Correction Factor CFgj is calculated as follows:
where Cnj is the unadjusted consumption for Consumption Component Class n, and Wn is the associated GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor. The rule given above for subtracting demand falling within ‘generation’ Consumption Component Classes must also be applied to this equation.
The GSP Group Correction Factors will be validated against tolerances set by BSCCo. If a GSP Group Correction Factor lies outside of this tolerance, the SSR run is aborted.
Following this, the total consumption volume per GSP Group will be compared to suitable comparator data and the variance calculated. If this variance lies outside of tolerances set by BSCCo, the SSR run is halted and the breach raised with BSCCo. If the breach is deemed by BSCCo to be valid, the SSR run will continue; otherwise it is aborted.
Following this, the GSP Group Take volumes will be compared to the total consumption volumes and the variance calculated. If this variance lies outside of tolerances set by BSCCo, the SSR run is halted and the breach raised with BSCCo. If the breach is deemed by BSCCo to be valid, the SSR run will continue; otherwise it is aborted.
The GSP Correction Factor is then applied by setting the appropriate field (either Corrected Supplier Consumption or Corrected Line Loss Component) of each row in the Supplier HH Demand datastore as follows:
Note: it is expected that the SSR system will initially be configured with values of Wn restricted to zero and one. GSP Correction will then not be applied at all to those components with zero scaling factors, and will be applied equally to the others.
If Σ (Cnj x Wn ) equals zero, the system must fail with an error message.
6.2.8.2 Process 1.4.9.2 - Calculate Deemed Supplier Take
For each Supplier and each Settlement Period in the trading day being processed, calculate the Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take as the sum of Corrected Supplier Consumption and Corrected Line Loss Component for all Demand Component Classes in the Supplier HH Demand datastore.
Any demand in the following Consumption Component Classes will be subtracted during the summation, as it is generation:
half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems with metering system specific line loss
half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems without metering system specific line loss
line losses attributed to half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems with metering system specific line loss
line losses attributed to half hourly Non-Pooled Generation for metering systems without metering system specific line loss
This Unadjusted Deemed Supplier Take is written to the Deemed Take datastore along with the GSP Group Id, the Supplier Id and the Settlement Period.
If any Supplier records a total output from any Non Pooled Generation, which they may have, which exceeds their take, the Supplier will register a negative Supplier Deemed Take.
This will be implemented by setting variables as follows:
Supplier Deemed Take = Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take
6.2.8.3 Process 1.4.9.3 - Adjust for Non-Pooled Generation Spill
This process is no longer used.
6.2.8.4 Process 1.4.9.2 - Calculate BM Unit SVA Gross Demand
For each Supplier, BM Unit and each Settlement Period in the trading day being processed calculate the BM Unit SVA Gross Demand as the sum of Corrected Supplier Consumption and Corrected Line Loss Component recorded for Active Import Component Classes in the Supplier HH Demand datastore.
6.2.8.5 Process 1.4.9.4 - Produce TUoS Report
This will produce a report of deemed Supplier take by Supplier. The report will include: SSR run date, SSR run number, SSR run type, Settlement Date, for each GSP Group a deemed take by Supplier (in MWh) for each half hour, and for each Supplier a split between half hourly and non-half hourly metering data at the BM Unit level. To support the calculation of dispute charges, the report will also include daily and period Supplier deemed take broken down into Corrected Supplier deemed take (deemed take attributable to supplies which are subject to group correction) and Non-Corrected Supplier deemed take. To support the disapplication of Network Charges for Storage Facilities, the report will also include daily and period gross demand from Storage Facilities and Corrected daily and period gross HH demand.
6.2.8.6 Process 1.4.9.5 - Produce DUoS Report
This will produce a report of aggregated data by Settlement Class (summed over Data Aggregators) for Suppliers and Distributors. The Supplier report will contain the data for one Supplier only. The Distributor report will contain the data for all Suppliers associated with the Distributor in all the GSP Groups that they are active in. The report will include: total consumption (i.e. sum of actual, estimated and unmetered consumption) for each half hour per valid combination of Profile Class, Standard Settlement Configuration and Time Pattern Regime, per Line Loss Factor Class, per Supplier. The report also contains Correction Factor data.
Where aggregated HH data has been submitted by a HH Data Aggregator for Measurement Classes F and G, this function will use the LLFC/SSC mapping information provided by the relevant Distributor to translate the data provided per Distributor and Line Loss Factor Class into data per Distributor and SSC for inclusion in the DUoS Report.
6.2.8.7 Process 1.4.9.6 - Produce Aggregated Disconnected DUoS Report
This will produce a report of aggregated data by Settlement Class (summed over Data Aggregators) for Suppliers and Distributors. The Supplier report will contain the data for one Supplier only. The Distributor report will contain the data for all Suppliers associated with the Distributor in all the GSP Groups that they are active in.
The report will include: Profiled DPM total consumption (i.e. sum of actual, estimated and unmetered disconnected consumption) for each half hour per valid combination of Profile Class, Standard Settlement Configuration and Time Pattern Regime, per Line Loss Factor Class, per Supplier. The report also contains Correction Factor data.
Where aggregated HH data has been submitted by a HH Data Aggregator for Measurement Classes F and G, this function will use the LLFC/SSC mapping information provided by the relevant Distributor to translate the data provided per Distributor and Line Loss Factor Class into data per Distributor and SSC for inclusion in the DUoS Report.
6.2.8.8 Process 1.4.9.7 - Produce Aggregated Embedded Network DUoS Report
This will produce a report of aggregated data by Settlement Class (summed over Data Aggregators) for Suppliers and Embedded Distributors. The Supplier report will contain the data for one Supplier only. The Distributor report will contain the data for all Suppliers associated with the Distributor in the Embedded Network that they are active in.
The report will include: Profiled DPM total consumption (i.e. sum of actual, estimated and unmetered consumption) for each half hour per valid combination of Profile Class, Standard Settlement Configuration and Time Pattern Regime, per Line Loss Factor Class, per Supplier. The report also contains Correction Factor data.
Where aggregated HH data has been submitted by a HH Data Aggregator for Measurement Classes F and G, this function will use the LLFC/SSC mapping information provided by the relevant Distributor to translate the data provided per Distributor and Line Loss Factor Class into data per Distributor and SSC for inclusion in the DUoS Report.
6.2.9 Process 1.4.13 - Determine Supplier Energy Allocations
This process retrieves the deemed take from the Deemed Take datastore, and sets the Supplier Purchase per GSP Group per Supplier per half hour to zero. i.e.:
Supplier Purchasegsj = Deemed Supplier Takegsj * (1 + TLMj) * (1 + LRMj) * PSPj
ΣsjSupplier Purchasesgsj = 0
The Supplier energy allocations is then used to produce the BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File which is sent to the Settlement Administration Agent.
The BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Data File contains details of Period Supplier Deemed Take for each Supplier and GSP Group in each Settlement Period. Each combination of Supplier and GSP Group is labelled with the BM Unit Id of the relevant base BM Unit.
Where a Demand Control Event has occurred for a Settlement Period, this process retrieves the disconnected deemed take from the Deemed Take data store and determines the Period Supplier Deemed Take for inclusion in the BM Unit Disconnected Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File sent to the Settlement Administration Agent.
6.2.10 Process 1.5 – Load Settlement Timetable
This process loads a file containing the Settlement Timetable as published by the Market Domain Data Agent. The file may contain additional details not required by the Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation and Daily Profile Production processes. No automatic deletions will be performed as part of this process.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure the following:
If validation is not successful, the file is rejected and an exception report is generated.
If validation is successful, the file is loaded into the system. For each Settlement details contained in the file, the following processing is performed:
i. Updates to existing Settlements will not be permitted if there has been a corresponding SSR Run, or if SSA Data has been loaded for the Settlement.
ii. Only the Payment Date and Planned SSR Run Date may be updated for existing Settlements.
iii. The Planned SSR Run Date is an optional data item. If it is provided, it must be less than or equal to the Payment Date. If it is not provided, it will be defaulted to the Payment Date.
iv. All Payment Dates are on or between the First Payment Date and Last Payment Date specified in the file.
v. Any data processing which will update existing data on the system will be recorded as a warning in an exception report.
If any of the validation described above fails, a corresponding warning message will be written to the exception report, and the data for that Settlement not loaded. However, the loading of other valid Settlement data from the file will be allowed to continue.
6.2.11 Process 1.6 – Load BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group Details
This process loads a file containing the BM Unit for a Supplier in a GSP Group details, as published by the Market Domain Data Agent. The file may contain additional details not required by the Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation and Daily Profile Production processes. No automatic deletions will be performed as part of this process.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure the following:
If validation is not successful, the file is rejected and an exception report is generated.
If validation is successful, the file is loaded into the system. For each Settlement details contained in the file, the following processing is performed:
The BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group Effective Dates will be checked to ensure that they do not overlap with any other instances with the same BM Unit Id.
The BM Unit can be associated with more than one Supplier and GSP Group combinations, but can be associated with only one combination on each Settlement Day.
The Effective Date ranges of the Base BM Units for a combination of Supplier and GSP Group do not overlap.
For a Scottish GSP Group, the Effective From Settlement Date must be on or after the BETTA Start Date
If any of the validation described above fails, a corresponding warning message will be written to the exception report, and the data for that Settlement not loaded (although processing will continue in order to detect any other errors in the file).
6.2.12 Process 2 - Daily Profile Production
6.2.13 Process 2.1 - Enter Parameter Data
6.2.13.1 Process 2.1.1 - Enter GSP Group Details
This process will allow the ISR Agent to add and delete entries from the list of valid GSP Groups. Not only are the Group Ids maintained but also the period of validity during which they are the responsibility of the ISR Agent.
When a GSP Group is deleted:
i) the system will validate that there is no daily profile data for the GSP Group. Such data must be archived off before deleting the GSP Group.
ii) the system will validate that there is no settlement data for the GSP Group. Such data must be archived before the GSP Group can be deleted.
iii) the system will delete any regression equations defined only for the GSP Group. A warning prompt will be displayed in this case.
6.2.13.2 Process 2.1.2 - Enter Calendar Details
This process will allow the ISR Agent to enter or revise the following calendar data for any day for which no Final Initial Settlement Run has yet taken place.
i) Day Type, Scottish Day Type and Season Id for each Settlement Day;
Note that Settlement Day data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.6).
6.2.13.3 Process 2.1.3 - Calculate Noon Effective Temperature
This process will allow the ISR Agent to enter or revise the Noon Actual Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit for any day for which no Final Initial Settlement Run has yet taken place. A Noon Effective Temperature will be derived as follows:
NETd = 0.57ATd + 0.28ATd-1 + 0.15ATd-2
6.2.13.4 Process 2.1.4 - Enter Time of Sunset
This process will allow the ISR Agent to upload a file of sunset times. The system will check that no Final Initial Settlement Run has yet taken place for any of the Settlement Days concerned.
6.2.13.5 Process 2.1.5 - Enter Data Collector Details
This process will allow the ISR Agent to specify details of Data Collectors, and for which GSP Groups they need to receive daily Profile Coefficient data.
6.2.14 Process 2.2 - Record Time Patterns
6.2.14.1 Process 2.2.1 - Enter Settlement Configurations
This process will allow the ISR Agent to enter, update and delete Standard Settlement Configurations. A Standard Settlement Configuration Id, Description and Standard Settlement Configuration Type will be specified for each configuration. If the Standard Settlement Configuration is teleswitched, a Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id will be specified. The system will not permit the Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id to be updated if there are Teleswitch Time Pattern Regimes associated with the same combination of Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id. The Standard Settlement Configuration Type will default to ‘I’ (Import), but can be change to ‘E’ (Export). If the Standard Settlement Configuration Type flag is updated, a warning message is output to inform that the results of future SSR runs or reruns will be affected.
Note that Settlement Configuration data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.2 Process 2.2.2 - Enter Time Patterns
This process will allow the ISR Agent to enter, update and delete Time Pattern Regimes. Each regime will be identified by an Id. The ISR Agent will specify whether each regime is teleswitched or not. If it is, a Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id will be specified. The system will not permit the Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id to be updated if there are Standard Settlement Configurations associated with the same combination of Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id.
The ISR Agent will specify if the Time Pattern Regime is in Clock (local) time or GMT. The system will not permit the GMT Indicator to be updated if the Time Pattern Regime is linked to a Standard Settlement Configuration via a Measurement Requirement.
Note that Time Pattern data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.3 Process 2.2.3 - Assign Time Patterns to Configurations
This process will allow the ISR Agent to assign and deassign Time Pattern Regimes to a Standard Settlement Configuration (i.e. create or delete occurrences of Measurement Requirement). The system will not permit the Time Pattern Regimes for a Standard Settlement Configuration to be amended if the Standard Settlement Configuration is assigned to any Profile Classes. The Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id for a Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime must match that of the Standard Settlement Configuration. All Time Pattern Regimes assigned to the Standard Settlement Configuration must either all be in Clock (local) time or GMT, i.e. a mixture of Clock (local) time or GMT is not permitted.
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.4 Process 2.2.4 - Assign Configurations to Profile Classes
This process will allow the ISR Agent to assign or deassign Standard Settlement Configurations to a Profile Class, or to update an existing link between them. Standard Settlement Configurations can only be assigned or unassigned to a Profile Class when this does not result in a change to the set of effective Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Classes for a Settlement Day which has already had a Final Initial Settlement Run.
When assigning a Standard Settlement Configuration to a Profile Class, the process will create an occurrence of Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class, and an occurrence of Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class for each Measurement Requirement of the Standard Settlement Configuration. If the Profile Class has the Switched Load Profile Class Indicator set, the user will also be required to specify which Measurement Requirements represent Switched Load (i.e. have the Switched Load Indicator set).
When deassigning a Standard Settlement Configuration from a Profile Class, the process will delete the Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class and all dependent occurrences of Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class, Daily Profile Coefficient, and Period Profile Class Coefficient.
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.5 Process 2.2.5 - Enter Clock Intervals
This process will allow the ISR Agent to define the clock interval(s) associated with each Time Pattern Regime. The system will only allow Clock Intervals to be defined for non teleswitched time patterns. Each clock interval will be specified in terms of the following attributes:
i) Start Date (day and month)
ii) End Date (day and month)
For example, a Time Pattern Regime for Summer Sunday afternoons might require a single Clock Interval with Start Date 1st June, End Date 31st August, Start Time 14:00, End Time 18:00, and day Sunday.
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.6 Process 2.2.6 - Load Teleswitch Contact Intervals
This process loads a file of daily Teleswitch Contact Intervals (i.e. Teleswitch contact switching times) prepared by the Teleswitch Agent for a single 24 hour day (i.e. midnight to midnight in UTC / GMT). The file of Teleswitch Contact Intervals reflects the actual Teleswitch messages broadcast by the Central Teleswitch Control Unit (CTCU) to Suppliers’ teleswitched metering systems for the day. Note that the data in one UTC file may affect two Settlement Dates. The process will validate that:
i) the combination of Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id are already defined within a Standard Settlement Configuration on the system. If it is not, the data will be loaded for possible future use, and the process will issue a warning report;
ii) no Final Initial Settlement Run has yet taken place using any of the Teleswitch data. If it has, the data will be rejected;
iii) the file contains data for every combination of Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id associated with one or more Standard Settlement Configurations which are effective on the Settlement Day (as determined by the Effective From Settlement Dates of the Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Classes defined on the system). If it does not, the file is considered incomplete and will be rejected in full; and
iv) for each unique Teleswitch Date, Teleswitch User, Teleswitch Group and Teleswitch Contact combination in a UTC file there is no overlapping or duplication of Teleswitch Contact Interval Effective Times. If there is, the whole file will be rejected.
If any data is rejected, the process will generate an exception report.
6.2.14.7 Process 2.2.7 - Load Pool Market Domain Data
This process reads a file of Standard Settlement Configuration data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent, and loads any which are not already defined on the system or contain updates.
Standard Settlement Configuration and Time Pattern Regime data is processed according to the following:
i) any amendment affecting a Settlement date for which a Final Initial Settlement Run has occurred must be authorised and, if successful, will generate an audit report. This excludes Effective To Settlement Date amendments to a date after the most recent Final Initial Settlement Run;
ii) any data processing which will update data already defined on the system will be recorded as a warning in an exception report. This excludes Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Effective To Settlement Date amendments provided the date does not precede the most recent Final Initial Settlement Run;
iii) counts of the total number of records that are updated and entered in the system will be recorded in an exception report;
iv) the file contains details of all existing Standard Settlement Configuration details and Time Pattern Regime details defined on the system. A single warning will be issued if a Standard Settlement Configuration or Time Pattern Regime and associated data is completely missing. Otherwise, individual warnings will be produced for all missing associated data. These warning messages are reported in the exception Report and will not prevent the file from loading.
v) the validation of the file will continue in the event of file rejection due to a validation failure, with appropriate messages written to the exception report. However, no changes will be applied to the system.
The following data will be specified for each Standard Settlement Configuration:
i) Id, Description and Standard Settlement Configuration Type;
ii) Time Pattern Regime Ids of the associated Measurement Requirements;
iii) Profile Class Ids of the Profile Classes for which the Standard Settlement Configuration is valid with associated Effective From Date Settlement Date and Effective To Settlement Date;
iv) Switched Load Indicators for each Measurement Requirement within each valid Profile Class;
v) One or more sets of Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption data for each GSP Group and valid Profile Class;
vi) Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id for teleswitched Standard Settlement Configurations.
The process will load details of any Standard Settlement Configurations which are not already defined on the system, or which contain permitted updates. It will validate that:
i) the Profile Class Ids are already defined on the system;
ii) the Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption within each valid combination of Standard Settlement Configuration and Profile Class and GSP Group sum to one;
iii) the Switched Load Indicator is set for one or more Measurement Requirements for each combination of a Standard Settlement Configuration with a Switched Load Profile Class;
iv) the Switched Load Indicator is not set for any Measurement Requirement in any combination of a Standard Settlement Configuration with a non-Switched Load Profile Class;
v) all Time Pattern Regimes linked to a Standard Settlement Configuration are either all in Clock (local) time or all in GMT;
vi) if creating a Measurement Requirement, the combination of Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id are the same for the Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime and Standard Settlement Configuration;
vii) at least one Teleswitch Register Rule exists for every Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime;
viii) there must be at least one Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Set for a Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class. However, the set(s) need not necessarily cover every Settlement Date for which the Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class is effective;
ix) the Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption within each valid combination of Standard Settlement Configuration and Profile Class and GSP Group do not overlap between identical combinations. Gaps between Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption sets related to a Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class and its effective period are permitted.
The following changes are permitted for a Standard Settlement Configuration which is already defined on the system, subject to the specified validation:
i) a change to the Standard Settlement Configuration description;
ii) a change to the SSC Type;
iii) a change to the Tele-switch User Id and Tele-switch Group Id;
iv) new Measurement Requirements for the Standard Settlement Configuration;
provided that the Time Pattern Regime is already defined on the system, or has been created during the file load;
provided the Tele-switch User and Tele-switch Group Id are the same for the Tele-switched Time Pattern Regime and Standard Settlement Configuration, taking into account any updates to the Time Pattern Regime and/or Standard Settlement Configuration;
provided that all associated Time Pattern Regimes, taking into account any updates to the Time Pattern Regimes, are either all local time or all GMT, i.e. a mix of local time and GMT time is not allowed;
v) new Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Classes and associated Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes;
provided that the Profile Class is already defined on the system;
provided that the file contains a Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class for each Time Pattern Regime associated with the Standard Settlement Configuration;
provided that the file contains at least one valid set of Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption for every Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class.
for Switched Load Profile Classes, one or more associated Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes has the Switched Load Indicator set;
for Non-switched Load Profile Classes, no associated Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes has the Switched Load Indicator set;
vi) a change to the Effective To Date for one or more Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Classes;
vii) a change to the Switched Load Indicator for one or more Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes;
for Switched Load Profile Classes, one or more associated Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes has the Switched Load Indicator set;
for Non-switched Load Profile Classes, no associated Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes has the Switched Load Indicator set;
viii) one or more new sets of Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption data;
provided that the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Set for a combination of Standard Settlement Configuration, Profile Class, Time Pattern Regime and GSP Group do not overlap other identical combinations. Date gaps between Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Sets related to a Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class are permitted;
provided that the Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption within each valid combination of Standard Settlement Configuration, Profile Class, GSP Group and Effective From Date sum to one;
ix) a change to the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Set’s Effective To Settlement Date;
provided the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Set for a combination of Standard Settlement Configuration, Profile Class, Time Pattern Regime and GSP Group do not overlap other identical combinations. Date gaps between Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Sets relating to a specific Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class are permitted;
provided that the change does not affect the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption coverage of a Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation. A warning will be logged if the change leaves any Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation without complete Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption coverage.
x) a change to the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption value for one or more Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption details
The file will also contain the following data for each Time Pattern Regime:
i) the Time Pattern Regime Id;
ii) the Teleswitch/Clock Indicator, specifying whether the Time Pattern is teleswitched or timeswitched;
iii) if it is teleswitched, the Tele-switch User Id, Tele-switch Group Id and Teleswitch Register Rule(s) associated with a set of Teleswitch Contact Rules;
iv) if it is timeswitched, one or more Clock Intervals, each defined in terms of the Day of the Week, Start and End Day and Month, and Start and End Time.
v) the GMT Indicator, specifying whether the Time Pattern is in GMT or not.
The following changes are permitted for a Time Pattern Regime which is already defined on the system, subject to the specified validation:
i) a change to the GMT Indicator:
ii) a change to the Tele-switch Group Id and/or Tele-switch User Id;
provided that the new Tele-switch User and Tele-switch Group is either an existing combination for a Standard Settlement Configuration or will be an existing combination after the file load;
if the Time Pattern Regime is linked to a Standard Settlement Configuration via an associated Measurement Requirement, then all Time Pattern Regimes associated with the Standard Settlement Configuration and the Standard Settlement Configuration must change their Tele-switch Group id and/or Tele-switch User Id during the file load;
iii) new Tele-switch Contact Rules;
iv) a change to the Tele-switch Contact Rule;
v) new set of Clock Intervals for Clock-switched Time Pattern Regime.
The validation for automated amendment of Standard Settlement Configuration and Time Pattern Regime data will the same as the validation for the manual data entry process, as defined in processes 2.2.1 to 2.2.6, 2.2.8 and 2.2.9.
6.2.14.8 Process 2.2.8 - Specify Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
This process will allow the ISR Agent to specify the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption (AFYCpt) for each Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class for a given combination of Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class and GSP Group. The system will validate that the fractions specified sum to one and that there is Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption coverage for all Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocations. An Effective Date will be specified for each set of data.
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.9 Process 2.2.9 - Enter Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
This process will allow the ISR Agent to browse, enter, update or delete a Teleswitch Register Rule and associated Teleswitch Contact Rule(s) for a Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime. At least one Teleswitch Register Rule must exist at all times for a Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime. Each Teleswitch Register Rule and associated Teleswitch Contact Rule will be specified in terms of the following attributes:
i) Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime Id
ii) Tele-switch Register Rule Id
iii) Tele-switch Contact Code
iv) Tele-switch Contact Rule
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent (see process 2.2.7). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.14.10 Process 2.2.10 - Enter Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
This process will allow the ISR Agent to browse, enter, update or delete details associated with a Teleswitch Contact Interval. Each Teleswitch Contact Interval will be specified in terms of the following attributes:
iii) Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
iv) End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
v) Tele-switch Contact Code
vi) Tele-switch Contact State
Note that this data will normally be loaded from a file prepared by Teleswitch Agent (see process 2.2.6). This manual process is required as a backup, and possibly for minor amendments.
6.2.15 Process 2.3 - Calculate Daily Profiles
6.2.15.1 Process 2.3.1 - Determine Time Pattern State
This process is triggered by a request from the ISR Agent to calculate Profile Coefficients for a Settlement Day. If coefficients have already been calculated for the Settlement Day, the operator will be required to confirm that a recalculation is intended. The system will validate that the Final Initial Settlement Run has not yet taken place for the Settlement Day.
This process will convert the Clock Intervals and Teleswitch Intervals for each Time Pattern Regime into a vector of Period Register On State Indicators for the day.
The following processing will be performed:
6.2.15.1.1 Convert Teleswitch Contact Intervals to Teleswitch Intervals
This process will derive Teleswitch Intervals, i.e. the switching times for each active Settlement register, from the Teleswitch Contact Intervals provided by the Teleswitch Agent.
The processing performed is as follows:
i) for each Teleswitch Group, identify the Standard Settlement Configuration(s) to which it relates from the set of Standard Settlement Configuration defined on the system;
ii) identify the Time Pattern Regimes associated with each Standard Settlement Configuration from the set of Teleswitch Time Pattern Regimes defined on the system;
a) retrieve all Teleswitch Contact Intervals for the appropriate Teleswitch Group and Settlement Day;
b) process all these records in chronological order, using the Teleswitch Contact Rules and Teleswitch Register Rules to determine the state of the Time Pattern Regimes after the start of each Teleswitch Contact Interval;
c) store this information on the database as one or more Teleswitch Intervals.
An additional check is made for the erroneous condition where there are no Settlement registers recording consumption for an unrestricted Standard Settlement Configuration, as follows:
i) for each teleswitched Standard Settlement Configuration, if all Measurement Requirements has its Switched Load Indicator set, then the Standard Settlement Configuration is restricted, otherwise the Standard Settlement Configuration is unrestricted;
ii) if the Standard Settlement Configuration is unrestricted, then at least one Time Pattern Regime linked to the Standard Settlement Configuration must be switched on in every Settlement Period during the Settlement Day;
iii) if the validation fails, an exception report is produced.
6.2.15.1.2 Round Clock Intervals and Teleswitch Intervals
This process will be performed for each Standard Settlement Configuration as follows:
Determine the Measurement Requirements and associated Clock Intervals and Teleswitch Intervals for the Standard Settlement Configuration. Consider in chronological order each spot time on which one or more of these Intervals starts or ends.
If the spot time is not a Settlement Period boundary, then determine the following for the set of Intervals ‘I’ which start or end at that spot time:
i) the Unrounded Duration UDI of each Interval, in minutes, prior to any rounding;
ii) the Rounded Up Duration RUDI of the Interval after rounding, calculated on the assumption that the spot time is rounded to the following Settlement Period boundary. If the Interval ends on the spot time in question, RUDI is calculated using the rounded start time, which has already been calculated.
If the Interval starts on the spot time, then the end time has not yet been rounded, and so RUDI must be calculated on the assumption that the end time will be rounded to the nearest Settlement Period boundary. If the end time is at 15 minutes past the hour, then it must be rounded back to the previous hour; if the end time is at 45 minutes past the hour, then it must be rounded forward to the next hour;
iii) the Rounded Down Duration RDDI of the Interval is calculated as for RUDI, but on the assumption that the spot time is rounded to the previous Settlement Period boundary;
All Interval start and end times which fall on that spot time will then be rounded to the same Settlement Period boundary, according to the following rules:
i) if the number of Intervals for which RUDI<0 is less than the number of Intervals for which RDDI<0, then round to the next Settlement Period boundary.
Conversely, if the number of Intervals for which RUDI<0 is greater than the number of Intervals for which RDDI<0, then round to the previous Settlement Period boundary; else;
ii) if the number of Intervals for which RUDI=0 is less than the number of Intervals for which RDDI=0, then round to the next Settlement Period boundary.
Conversely, if the number of Intervals for which RUDI=0 is greater than the number of Intervals for which RDDI=0, then round to the previous Settlement Period boundary; else;
iii) if ΣI(RUDI-UDI)2 < ΣI(RDDI-UDI)2, then round to the next Settlement Period boundary. Conversely, if ΣI(RUDI-UDI)2 > ΣI(RDDI-UDI)2, then round to the previous Settlement Period boundary; else;
iv) round to the previous Settlement Period boundary.
After each spot time has been rounded, check whether any of the Intervals ending at that time now has a duration of zero. If so, advance the end time for that Interval to the next Settlement Period boundary.
6.2.15.1.3 Convert GMT Intervals to Local Time and Process Local Time Intervals during Clock Change Days
This process will take account of whether the Time Pattern Regime is GMT or clock (local) time and will convert GMT times to local half hours. It must also take account of the clock change (long and short) days.
6.2.15.2 Process 2.3.2 - Evaluate Regression Equations
The following processing is to be performed for each GSP Group.
Retrieve the date, day type, Scottish day type, time of sunset and noon effective temperature. Convert the time of sunset to the sunset variable i.e. minutes after 1800 GMT, which may be negative.
Based on the date and Season Id, retrieve the correct set(s) of regression equations for each Profile Class.
For England and Wales GSP Groups, select Regression Coefficients (a) whose Day Type matches the Day Type selected from Settlement Day, and (b) whose Scottish Regression Flag set to “No”.
For Scottish GSP Groups, select Regression Coefficients (a) whose Day Type matches the Scottish Day Type selected from Settlement Day and, (b) whose Scottish Regression Flag is set to “Yes” (if the Settlement Date is greater than or equal to the BETTA Start Date, but less than or equal to the BETTA Regression Coefficients End Date), or whose Scottish Regression Flag is set to “No” (in all other cases).
Where Scottish Regression Coefficients (i.e. those with Scottish Regression Flag set to “Yes”) are used in a DPP run, an entry will be created in the exception log to indicate this.
There will be one set of forty-eight regression equations for each Profile Class, plus one or more shorter sets for Switched Load Profile Classes. Retrieve also the Group Average Annual Consumption for each profile. (Note that these group averages are provided by the Profile Administrator as an average for all customers in the Profile Class.)
Evaluate each regression equations using the Day of the Week, sunset variable and noon effective temperature. Divide through to convert to Profile Coefficients:
If there is a clock change on the day, the system will manipulate those profiles with length 48 periods to the appropriate length, using the following algorithm:
For additional periods (eg. 25 hour day) use linear interpolation. If the extra hour(s) correspond to periods n to n+m then the profile coefficients (pcs) for these periods will be calculated as follows:
pc(n+i) = pc(n-1) + [pc(n+m+1)-pc(n-1)] * (i+1)/(m+2)
As an example, if the clocks go back an hour at 2 a.m., the above formula would be used with n=5 and m=1 to derive values for the 5th and 6th Settlement Periods in the day.
The above formula doesn’t cope with the clock going back at midnight, because pc(n+m+1) is undefined in this case. In this case, use linear extrapolation rather than linear interpolation, as follows:
pc(n+i) = pc(n-1) + [pc(n-1)-pc(n-2)] * (i+1).
For missing periods (e.g. a 23 hour day), assume the profile coefficients for the remaining hours are unaltered, i.e. the missing hour is removed and the profile coefficients for the remaining periods are the same as for a 24 hour day.
Any negative Basic Period Profile Coefficient should be reset to zero and a warning message written on a report to the ISR Agent.
5.2.15.3 Process 2.3.3 - Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
This process creates a set of Combined Period Profile Coefficients for each combination of:
iii) Valid combination of Standard Settlement Configuration and Profile Class, for a Switched Load Profile Class.
For each of the above combination, a set of Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption (AFYCs) is required. If AFYCs are not available for a particular combination, that combination is omitted from the profiling run.
The algorithm is as follows:
i) Identify the Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes which record the Switched Load. For each Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class, retrieve the values of Period Time Pattern State Qtj (0 for off, or 1 for on) for each Settlement Period. Perform the following sub-processes:
a) Create an unmodified switching pattern for the Switched Load by combining the values of Period Time Pattern State for each Settlement Period Qtj for all the relevant Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Classes. A Settlement Period is considered to be “on” if one or more Period Time Pattern States retrieved is on; an “off” period is when none of the Period Time Pattern States retrieved is “on”.
b) Create a modified switching pattern for the Switched Load, initially setting it to the same as the unmodified switching pattern, and then modifying it as follows:
Determine if the modified switching pattern satisfies any of the following conditions:
the Switched Load is “on” for less than two half hours in the Settlement Day;
the Switched Load is “on” for more than 47 half hours in the Settlement Day;
the Switched Load is “on” for the entire Settlement Day.
If any of the above conditions are satisfied, then amend the modified switching pattern by applying the following rules:
in the instance where the Switched Load is “off” all day, switch the first two half hours of the Settlement Day to “on”;
in the instance of where the Switched Load is “on” for only a single half hour, switch the next half hour to “on”. If the single half hour is the last half hour, then switch the previous half hour to “on”.
in the instance where the Switched Load is “on” for more than 47 half hours, switch all the half hours after the 47th “on” period to “off”;
in the instance where the Switched Load is “on” all day (given the above case, this could only be on a short day), switch the last half hour to “off”.
a) Using the modified switching pattern, label the “on” periods as follows:
Identify the longest continuous block of “off” periods in the Settlement Date. In the case where the Settlement Day both begins and ends with “off” periods, this should be regarded as a single block for this purpose.
Label the “on” periods in sequence, numbered from 1 upwards. The numbering usually starts from the first “on” period immediately following the block of “off” periods identified above. If this block consists of separate periods at the start and end of the Settlement Day, start the numbering with the first “on” period of the Settlement Day. This will provide the total number of Settlement Periods in which any of the switched load registers is on.
If there is no “off” period in the Settlement Day (i.e. switched load is on throughout the day), start the numbering with the first period of the Settlement Day.
If there is more than one continuous block of “off” periods with the same longest duration, identify the longest continuous block of “on” periods in the Settlement Day and start the numbering with the first period of this block.
If there is more than one continuous block of “on” periods with the same longest duration, identify the last such block occurring during the Settlement Day and start the numbering with the first period of this block.
i) Using the modified switching pattern, count the number of “on” periods to obtain the duration, and retrieve the set of Basic Period Profile Coefficients with the same duration. If the Profile Class does not have a profile with the correct duration, then issue a warning message, and do not process this Standard Settlement Configuration further.
ii) Calculate a Switched Load Profile Coefficient for the regime by moving Profile Coefficients determined in (ii) into the low register “on” periods using the combined switching pattern and the sequence order determined in (i).
iii) Retrieve the set of Basic Period Profile Coefficients for the Base Load (i.e. the profile with the same duration as the Settlement Day itself).
iv) Using the modified switching pattern, calculate the fraction Hpt of the low register consumption for the regime that can be regarded as Base Load. This fraction is defined as the sum of the Base Load Profile Coefficients in the “on” periods in the Settlement Day, divided by the sum in the “off” periods in the Settlement Day.
v) Using the unmodified switching pattern, produce Low and Normal Register profile coefficients for the regime, by combining the Switched Load profile (calculated in iii), and the Base Load profile (calculated in iv), as follows:
Low Register Profile Coefficient = Base Profile * Base Fraction +
Switched Profile * Switched Fraction
Normal Register Profile Coefficient = 0
Low Register Profile Coefficient = 0
Normal Register Profile Coefficient = Base Profile * Base Fraction
where the Base Fraction is the fraction of consumption for the regime that is attributable to Base Load, and the Switched Fraction is the fraction attributable to Switched Load. These fractions can be determined in terms of the Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption AFYCpt as follows:
where the normal timeslots are all those occurrences of Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class which do not have the Switched Load Indicator set, and low timeslots are all those occurrences of Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class which do have the Switched Load Indicator set.
Any negative Low or Normal Register Profile Coefficient should be reset to zero and a warning message written on a report to the ISR Agent.
6.2.15.4 Process 2.3.4 - Chunk Profiles
This process creates a set of Period Profile Class Coefficients for each combination of:
iii) Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class.
The algorithm is as follows:
i) Retrieve the Profile Coefficients for the Settlement Day and Profile Class. If the Profile Class has the Switched Load Profile Class Indicator set, the appropriate coefficients are the Normal Register Profile Coefficients or the Low Register Profile Coefficients, depending upon whether the Switched Load Indicator is set for the Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class. Otherwise, they are the Basic Period Profile Coefficients for the single Profile assigned to the Profile Class.
ii) Retrieve the occurrences of entity Period Time Pattern State, and the associated values of the Period Register On State Indicator, for the Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class.
iii) For each Settlement Period, calculate the Period Profile Class Coefficients as follows:
PPCCptj = PCptj * Qtj / AFYCpt
iv) where PCptj are the coefficients determined in (i); Qtj are the Period Register On State Indicators retrieved in (ii); and AFYCpt is the Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption for the Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class.
6.2.16 Process 2.4 - Produce Profile Reports
6.2.17 Process 2.4.1 - Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
This process will produce the following reports:
i) A Standing Profile Data report for one or all GSP Groups. Data items are as follows:
For each GSP Group and Profile Class
Profile Class Description
Switched Load Profile Class Indicator
For each GSP Group and Profile Class and Profile
Effective From Settlement Date {PROF}
Effective To Settlement Date {PROF}
For each GSP Group and Profile Class and Profile and Profile Regression Equation Set
Group Average Annual Consumption Regression Coefficients x 48
ii) A Daily Profile Data report for a given Settlement Day and one or all GSP Groups. Data items are as follows:
Effective Noon Temperature
For each GSP Group and Profile
for each Settlement Period
Period Profile Coefficient Value
For each GSP Group and Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
for each Settlement Period
Normal Register Profile Coefficient
Low Register Profile Coefficient
For each GSP Group and Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
for each Settlement Period
Profile Coefficient Value
Period Register On State Indicator
iii) A Standard Settlement Configuration report. Data items are as follows:
For each Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class
Profile Class Description
Switched Load Profile Class Indicator
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Description
For each Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
For each Clock Interval of each Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class:
For each Teleswitch Interval of each Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class:
iv) A Teleswitch Contact Interval Data report. Data items are as follows:
For each Teleswitch Group:
For each Teleswitch Contact Interval:
Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Tele-switch Contact State
By default, Standing Profile Data reports and Standard Settlement Configuration reports will be sent to all Suppliers and Data Collectors. The Daily Profile Data reports will be sent only to Suppliers, except in the case of a Demand Control Event, when the report will also be issued to NHH Data Collectors. The Teleswitch Contact Interval Data report will be generated for all Suppliers, but only distributed to them by the ISR Agent only upon their request.
6.2.18 Process 2.4.2 - Extract Data for EAC Calculator
This process will produce a data file for each Data Collector showing the daily total Profile Coefficient for every Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class for a given Settlement Day and those GSP Groups to which the Data Collector is appointed. For those GSP Groups excluded from the Profile Production Run, it will include data from the most recent previous extract runs in the extract file. It will also allow the selection of EAC data for a Range of Settlement Days.
It will also allow the ISR Agent to produce a data file for a Data Collector showing the daily total Profile Coefficient for every Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class for each Settlement Day in a range of Settlement Days, and for a specific GSP Group. This will be used when a new Data Collector is appointed to a MSID in the GSP Group and will be initiated by the ISRA Operator.
6.2.19 Process 2.5 - Enter Profiles
6.2.19.1 Process 2.5.1 - Enter Profile Details
This process will allow the ISR Agent to enter, update and delete Profile Classes. An indicator will be entered to specify whether or not each Profile Class is a Switched Load Profile Class.
It will also read a file of Profile Classes prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent which will load new Profile Classes and any amendments to existing ones into the system.
The process will also allow one or more profiles to be defined for each Profile Class. A duration in Settlement Periods will be defined for each profile.
The system will validate profile data as follows:
i) a non Switched Load Profile Class can only have one profile of duration 48 Settlement Periods;
ii) no Final Initial Settlement Run has yet taken place for the Settlement Date of the Date Effective of the Profile and Profile Class;
iii) a Switched Load Profile Class must have one profile of duration 48 Settlement Periods, and one or more profiles of duration less than 48 Settlement Periods.
6.2.19.2 Process 2.5.2 - Enter Regression Equations
This process will allow regression equations to be entered for each profile. The following data items will be required for each regression equation;
i) Profile Class to which it applies;
ii) season to which it applies;
iv) regression coefficients for the number of Settlement Periods given by the duration of the profile;
v) Group Average Annual Consumption (MWh).
The system will validate that no Final Initial Settlement Run has yet taken place for the Settlement Date of the Date Effective of the regression equations.
6.2.20 Process 2.6 – Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
This process loads data from a file containing published Market Domain Data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. The file may contain additional details not required by the Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation and Daily Profile Production processes. No automatic deletions will be performed as part of this process.
The incoming data will be validated to ensure:
If either of these conditions is not satisfied the data file will be rejected and the load will fail. A message is written to a log to indicate that the load has failed. An exception report is generated for the ISR Agent.
Once validated, Settlement Day, Line Loss Factor Class and BM Unit data is processed according to the following:
i. any amendment affecting a Settlement date for which a Final Initial Settlement Run has occurred must be authorised and, if successful, will generate a Standing Data Audit report;
ii. any data processing which will update existing data on the system will be recorded as a warning in an exception report;
iii. counts of the number of record types that are updated and inserted will be recorded in an exception report;
iv. the file contains details of all existing Settlement Day and Line Loss Factor Class Details defined on the system. A warning will be issued if Settlement Day and Line Loss Factor Class data is missing. These warning messages are reported in the exception report and will not prevent the file from loading.
v. the processing of the file will continue in the event of file rejection due to a validation failure, with appropriate messages written to the exception report. However, no changes will be applied to the ISRA system.
The following data will be specified in the file for each Settlement Day:
i. the Settlement Date of the data;
ii. the Day Type Id associated with the Settlement Day;
iii. the Season Id specifying the season associated with the Settlement date.
Validation will take place on the Settlement Day data to ensure that the Day Type Id and Season Id values are valid. No other specific validation is performed.
The following data will be specified in the file for each Line Loss Factor Class:
i. Distributor Id of the Market Participant;
ii. Market Participant Role Code;
iii. Line Loss Factor Class Id;
iv. Metering System Specific Line Loss Factor Class Indicator;
v. Effective From Settlement Date of the Line Loss Factor Class;
vi. Effective To Settlement Date of the Line Loss Factor Class.
The following validation will be performed on Line Loss Factor Class data:
i. The Line Loss Factor Class must belong to a valid distributor.
ii. If the combination of Line Loss Factor Class and Distributor already exists on the system then the date range for which the new combination is effective must not overlap the date range of the existing combinations.
iii. Only General Line Loss Factor Classes Import/Export will be loaded (Metering System Specific Line Loss Factor Class Indicator type ‘A’ and ‘C’).
iv. The Effective To Settlement Date must be greater than, or equal to, the Effective From Settlement Date.
If the Effective To Settlement Date is amended to an earlier date and this results in instances of Settlement Period Line Loss Factor falling outside the Effective Period of the Class, a warning message is written to the exception report.
6.3 External Entity Descriptions
ID | Ext. Entity | Description |
d | Authorised Temperature Provider | The source for all the temperature data. |
a | Distribution Business | The distributor who is responsible for the operation of a distribution network. |
c | Electricity Pool | The Electricity Pool of England and Wales. |
o | HH Data Aggregator | The system which aggregates meter readings or estimates of meter readings for all half hourly meters and the unmetered supplies which are treated as half hourly meters. |
k | ISR Agent | The Pool approved agent responsible for operating the ISRA system. |
q | Market Domain Data Agent | The Market Domain Data Agent provides a central point of co-ordination across the 1998 Trading Arrangements. It is responsible for the maintenance and distribution of Market Domain Data. |
r | Sunset Provider | The body responsible for providing the time of sunset for each day. |
p | Non-HH Data Aggregator | The system which aggregates EACs and AAs for all non half hourly meters and the unmetered supplies which are treated as non half hourly meters. |
b | Non-HH Data Collector | An organisation Qualified in accordance with BSCP537 (Reference 21) to periodically collect and process meter readings and derive consumptions. |
g | Settlement Administration Agent | The body responsible for energy allocations and associated systems to allow payments to be made to Trading Parties. |
i | Profile Administrator | The Pool approved agent responsible for performing research into patterns of electricity usage. |
f | Central Data Collection Agent | The agent responsible for the development and operation of the Central Data Collection systems. |
j | Supplier | A supplier of electricity. |
e | Teleswitch Agent | The Pool Agent responsible for providing a daily file of Teleswitch contact intervals reflecting the actual Teleswitch messages broadcast by the Central Teleswitch Control Unit to Suppliers’ teleswitched metering systems for the day. |
h | TUoS | Transmission Use of System. Calculates charges made by the NETSO for use of the super grid. |
l | HH Data Collector | An organisation Qualified in accordance with BSCP537 (Reference 21) to collect and process HH meter readings. |
The table below gives an elementary description of all the data flows into and out of the ISRA system, i.e. between ISRA and its external entities.
The attributes for each flow are listed in the data flow descriptions section of this document.
Data Flow Name | From | To | Comments |
Actual GSP Group Take | External entity f Central Data Collection Agent | Process 1.1.1 Validate Settlements Data | The GSP group take for the Settlement Day, as calculated by the SSA, for each half hour of the Settlement Day. |
Actual Noon Temperature | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.1.3 Calculate Noon Effective Temperature | The arithmetic average of noon temperature as measured at representative weather stations within the GSP Group area. |
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.8 Specify Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption | The estimated fraction of consumption for a Profile Class and Measurement Requirement used in Profile Production, with the dates on which it is effective. |
BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File | Process 1.4.13.2 Generate BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File | External Entity g Settlement Administration Agent | The Period Supplier Deemed Take for each BM Unit in each Settlement Period. |
BM Unit Disconnected Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File | Process 1.4.13.2 Generate BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File | External Entity g Settlement Administration Agent | The Period Disconnected Supplier Deemed Take for each BM Unit in each Settlement Period. |
BM Unit Aggregated Half Hour Data File | External Entity o HH Data Aggregator | Process 1.1.3 Validate HH data | Contains details of half hourly energy volumes broken down by BM Unit. |
BM Unit Aggregated Half Hour Disconnection Data File | External Entity o HH Data Aggregator | Process 1.1.3 Validate HH data | Contains details of half hourly disconnected energy volumes broken down by BM Unit. |
BSCCo GSP Group Consumption Totals Report | Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report | External entity e Electricity Pool | This report contains GSP Group Consumption Totals for consumption component classes both before and after GSP Group correction. This report also contains Total MSID Counts for Consumption Component Classes. It is sent to BSCCo and contains all GSP Groups in which any Suppliers are active on the settlement date and consumption component classes for which there was consumption. |
Calendar Details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.1.2 Enter Calendar Details | Contains details of the Clock Change dates and Day Types. |
Changes to aggregator assignments | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.6 Specify Aggregator for GSP Group | Indicates to SSR which Data Aggregators will be providing data for which Suppliers. |
Changes to NHH BM Unit allocations | External Entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.8 Assign NHH BM units | Updates the allocation of Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class to a NHH BM Unit |
Changes to BM Unit Details | External entity k ISR Agent External entity q Market Domain Data Agent | Process 1.3.9 Enter BM Units Manually | Updates BM Unit details. |
Changes to distributor assignments | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.5 Specify Distributor for GSP Group | Allocates a Distributor to a GSP Group. |
Changes to line loss factor codes | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.4 Maintain line loss factor codes | Updates to the list of Line Loss Factor Codes that SSR uses for validation. |
Changes to scaling factors | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.3 Maintain GSP correction scaling factors | Updates to the GSP Group correction scaling factors. |
Changes to supplier details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.1 Maintain supplier details | Updates to the list of Suppliers for which SSR expects to receive data. |
Clock Intervals | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.5 Enter Clock Intervals | Updates to the Time Pattern Regime details held in SSR. |
Daily Profile Data Report | Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports | External entity j Supplier External entity l NHH Data Collector | A report for Suppliers detailing all of the Daily Profile Class Coefficients produced for the specified Settlement Day. |
Daily Profile Total Extract | Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator | External entity b Non-HH Data Collector | The sum of the daily Profiles for each Settlement Class for the Settlement Day. This is to enable the EAC calculation system to produce Annualised Advances. This extract is run as a one-off when a new DC is appointed to a GSP Group. |
Daily Profile Totals | Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator | External entity b Non-HH Data Collector | The sum of the daily Profiles for each Settlement Class for the Settlement Day. This is to enable the EAC calculation system to produce Annualised Advances. |
Data Collector Details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.1.5 Enter Data Collector Details | Changes to the Data Collectors and their appointments to GSP Groups. |
Deemed Take Report | Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report | External entity j Supplier | For each Supplier, this report details their Deemed Take by GSP Group for each half hour as calculated by the most recent SSR run for the Settlement Day. |
Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes | External entity t NETSO | Process 1.1.7 Manage Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes | Details of MSIDs subject to Demand Disconnection under Demand-Side Balancing Reserve arrangements, along with estimated disconnection volumes |
Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes | Process 1.1.7 Manage Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes | External entity b Non-HH Data Collector | Details of MSIDs subject to Demand Disconnection under Demand-Side Balancing Reserve arrangements, along with estimated disconnection volumes |
External entity l HH Data Collector |
Disconnection Supplier Purchase Matrix Data | External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator | Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data | Aggregated Disconnected Estimated Annual Consumptions for a Supplier and GSP Group on a Settlement Day. This data is produced on request by a non-half hourly Data Aggregator. |
DUoS Report | Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report | External entity j Supplier | |
DUoS Report | Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report | External entity a Distribution Business | |
Extract Request | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator | |
GSP Group Consumption Totals Report | Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report | External entity j Supplier | This report contains GSP Group Consumption Totals for consumption component classes both before and after GSP Group correction. This report also contains Total MSID Counts for Consumption Component Classes. It is sent to Suppliers and only contains GSP Groups in which the Supplier was active on the settlement date and consumption component classes for which there was consumption. |
GSP Group Details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.1.1 Enter GSP Group Details | Updates to the list of GSP Group Ids processed by this instance of the SSR system and the periods of validity during which they are the responsibility of the ISR Agent. |
GSP Group Market Matrix Report | Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report | External entity e Electricity Pool | A report indicating the aggregated Estimated Annual Consumption values used for an SSR Run across all Suppliers. |
GSP Group Supplier Assignment | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.2 Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups | Updates to the relationships between Suppliers and GSP Groups. |
HH Demand Report | Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report | External entity j Supplier | A report for each Supplier detailing the aggregated demand for each Consumption Component Class by GSP Group by half hour. |
Line Loss Class Factors | External entity a Distribution Business | Process 1.1.2 Validate Line Loss Factors | The Line Loss Factors for each non metering system specific Line Loss Class. |
LL Adjusted Aggregated Meter Data | External entity o HH Data Aggregator | Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data | The aggregated meter readings and estimates as provided by the half hourly Data Collector. |
Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems | External entity a Distribution Business | Process 1.1.6 Validate Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems | Details of mapping between LLFC and SSC for a distributor for HH consumption |
Market Domain Data Complete Set | External entity q Market Domain Data Agent | Process 2.6 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set | The published Market Domain Data, i.e. the complete set of data which defines the environment of the Trading Arrangements. |
Pool Market Domain Data | External entity q Market Domain Data Agent | Process 2.2.7 Load Pool Market Domain Data | Data distributed by the Market Domain Data Agent, which is required by ISRA. |
Profile Class Assignments | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.4 Assign Configurations to Profile Classes | Details of which Standard Settlement Configurations are permitted for a Profile Class, and of the split of annual consumption between the Measurement Requirements. |
Profile Class Details | External entity k ISR Agent External entity q Market Domain Data Agent | Process 2.5.1 Enter Profile Details | Details of Profile Classes and their associated Profiles, entered by the ISR Agent, or loaded via a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. |
Profiling Run Request | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.3.1 Determine Time Pattern State | A request issued to the system by the ISR Agent for daily profiles to be calculated for a Settlement Day. |
Regression Equations | External entity i Profile Administrator | Process 2.5.2 Enter Regression Equations | A file of Regression Equations for use in demand profiling, prepared by the Profile Administrator. |
Report Parameters | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report | Identifiers of the GSP Group, Supplier and Settlement Date for which a report is required. |
Report Parameters | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report | Identifiers of the GSP Group, Supplier and Settlement Date for which a report is required. |
Report Parameters | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report | Identifiers of the GSP Group, Supplier and Settlement Date for which a report is required. |
Report Parameters | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report | Identifiers of the GSP Group, Supplier and Settlement Date for which a report is required. |
Report Parameters | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report | Identifiers of the GSP Group and Settlement Date for which a report is required. |
Request for SSR Run | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.4.1 Invoke Run | The initiation of an SSR run for a specified Settlement Day. |
Settlement Timetable | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.7 Maintain Settlement Timetable | Details of the overall Settlement timetable and the Settlement Codes, Planned SSR Run Dates and Payment Dates for each Settlement Date, entered by the ISR Agent. |
Settlement Timetable | External entity q Market Domain Data Agent | Process 1.5 Load Settlement Timetable | Details of the overall Settlement timetable and the Settlement Codes, Planned SSR Run Dates and Payment Dates for each Settlement Date loaded from a file prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent. |
Specify Final Dispute Expected Aggregation | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 1.3.10 Maintain Final Dispute Expected Aggregation | Indicates to SSR which Data Aggregators will be providing data in relation to a Dispute Final Run. |
Standard Configuration Details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.1 Enter Settlement Configurations | Details of a Standard Settlement Configuration, entered by the ISR Agent. |
Standard Settlement Configuration Report | Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports | External entity j Supplier | A report for suppliers of the Standard Settlement Configurations in effect on a given Settlement Day. |
Standard Settlement Configuration Report | Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports | External entity b Non-HH Data Collector | A report for suppliers of the Standard Settlement Configurations in effect on a given Settlement Day. |
Standing Profile Data Report | Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports | External entity j Supplier | A report of the Regression Equations used to produce profile data for a given Settlement Day. |
Standing Profile Data Report | Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports | External entity b Non-HH Data Collector | A report of the Regression Equations used to produce profile data for a given Settlement Day. |
Supplier BM Unit Report | Process 1.2.7 Create Supplier BM Unit Report | External Entity j Supplier | A report for each Supplier giving details of the Suppliers valid BM Units, GSP Group/BM Unit/PC/SSC mappings, and consumption/generation by BM unit and CCC. |
Supplier’s Demand Disconnection Volume Data File | External Entity o HH Data Aggregator | Process 1.1.3 Validate HH data | Contains details of half hourly disconnected energy volumes. |
Supplier Purchase Matrix Data | External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator | Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data | Aggregated Estimated Annual Consumptions for a Supplier and GSP Group on a Settlement Day. This data is produced on request by a non-half hourly Data Aggregator. |
Supplier Purchase Matrix Report | Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report | External entity j Supplier | A report indicating the aggregated Estimated Annual Consumption values used for an SSR Run and Supplier. |
Supplier Purchase Report | Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report | External entity j Supplier | A report indicating Supplier Purchases by GSP Group for an SSR Run and Supplier. |
Supplier Quarterly Volume Report | Process 1.2.12 Create Supplier Quarterly Volume Report | External entity e Electricity Pool | A report indicating the quarterly volumes and average number of Metering Systems for each Supplier |
Teleswitch Contact Interval Details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.10 Enter Teleswitch Contact Intervals | Details of Teleswitch contact intervals, entered by the ISR Agent |
Teleswitch Contact Interval Data Report | Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports | External entity j Supplier | A report of the Teleswitch Contact Intervals used during the DPP run for a given Settlement Day. |
Teleswitch Contact Intervals | External entity e Teleswitch Agent | Process 2.2.6 Load Teleswitch Contact Intervals | A file of Teleswitch contact intervals, prepared by the Teleswitch Agent. |
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.9 Enter Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules | Details of Teleswitch register and contact rules provided by Suppliers, entered by the ISR Agent. |
Time of Sunset | External entity r Sunset Provider | Process 2.1.4 Enter Time of Sunset | A file of sunset times for a GSP Group, prepared by the ISR Agent. |
Time Pattern Assignments | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.3 Assign Time Patterns to Configurations | Amendments to the list of Time Pattern Regimes which define a Standard Settlement Configuration, entered by the ISR Agent. |
Time Pattern Details | External entity k ISR Agent | Process 2.2.2 Enter Time Patterns | Amendments to the standing Time Pattern Regime data, entered by the ISR Agent. |
TUoS Report | Process 1.4.9.4 Produce TUoS Report | External entity h TUoS | A report of Deemed Take required by the NETSO in order to calculate Transmission Use of System Charges. |
BM Unit SVA Gross Demand Data File | Process 6.2.8.3 Produce BM Unit Gross Demand Data File | External entity g Settlement Administration Agent | A report of Gross Demand for each BM Unit required by the SAA for EMR reporting |
Supplier Disconnection Matrix report | Process 1.2.8 Supplier Disconnection Matrix Report | External entity j Supplier | A report detailing Disconnection Purchase Matrix occurrences used in the specified Settlement Run |
HH Demand Disconnection Report | Process 1.2.9 HH Demand Disconnection Report | External entity j Supplier | A report detailing HH Demand Disconnection values for a Supplier by Consumption Component Class |
GSP Group Take Demand Disconnection Report | Process 1.2.10 GSP Group Take Demand Disconnection Report | External entity j Supplier | A report detailing the total deemed take summed over all Suppliers for each Settlement Period affected by Demand Disconnection |
Supplier BM Unit Demand Disconnection Report | Process 1.2.11 Supplier BM Unit Demand Disconnection Report | External entity j Supplier | A report for each Supplier giving details of the Suppliers valid BM Units, GSP Group/BM Unit/PC/SSC mappings, and disconnected consumption/generation by BM unit and CCC |
6.5 Data Flow Descriptions
6.5.1 Actual GSP Group Take
External entity f Central Data Collection Agent
to Process 1.1.1 Validate Settlements Data
6.5.2 Actual HH GSP Group Take
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
SSA Settlement Run Number
SSA Settlement Run Type Id
6.5.3 Actual Noon Temperature
Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
to Process 2.1 Enter Parameter Data
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.1.3 Calculate Noon Effective Temperature
Process 2.1.3 Calculate Noon Effective Temperature
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
6.5.4 Aggregated Profiled HH Values
Process 1.4.8.2 Aggregate Profiled Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Consumption Component Class Id
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.5 Aggregated Consumption and Line Loss
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
6.5.6 Aggregated Supplier Take
to Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
Process 1.4.9.2 Calculate Deemed Supplier Take
to Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take
6.5.7 Amendment to Profile Run Status
Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Process 2.3.4 Chunk Profiles
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Profile Production Run Number
6.5.8 Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.8 Specify Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Effective To Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.9 Base Load Class Profile
Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Period Profile Coefficient Value
Profile Production Run Number
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3.3 Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
Period Profile Coefficient Value
6.5.11 BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
Process 1.4.13.2 Generate BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
Process 1.4.13 Determine Supplier Energy Allocations
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
6.5.12 BM Unit Aggregated HH Data File
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated BM Unit Energy
Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
Consumption Component Class Id
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
6.5.13 BM Unit SVA Gross Demand Data File
Process 6.2.8.3 Produce BM Unit Gross Demand Data File
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
6.5.14 Calculation Values
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated Profiled HH Values
GSP Group Corrected HH values
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.1.2 Enter Calendar Details
6.5.16 Changes to aggregator assignments
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.6 Specify Aggregator for GSP Group
Effective From Settlement Date {DAIGG}
Effective To Settlement Date {DAIGG}
6.5.17 Changes to distributor assignments
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.5 Specify Distributor for GSP Group
Effective From Settlement Date {GGD}
Effective To Settlement Date {GGD}
6.5.18 Changes to BM Unit details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.9 Enter BM Units Manually
External entity q MDD Agent
to Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
Supplier Market Participant Id
Supplier Market Participant Role Code
Effective To Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
6.5.19 Changes to line loss factor codes
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.4 Maintain line loss factor codes
Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.20 Changes to NHH BM Unit allocations
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.8 Assign NHH BM Units
Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
Effective From Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
6.5.21 Changes to scaling factors
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.3 Maintain GSP correction scaling factors
Consumption Component Class Id
Effective From Settlement Date {GGCSF}
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
6.5.22 Changes to supplier details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.1 Maintain supplier details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.5 Enter Clock Intervals
6.5.24 Combined Load Regime Profile
Process 2.3.3 Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3.4 Chunk Profiles
Normal Register Profile Coefficient
Low Register Profile Coefficient
Profile Production Run Number
6.5.25 Daily Data for Reporting
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Line Losses for Reporting
GSP Group Takes and Correction Factors
Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
to Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
to Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
Noon Effective Temperature
This Data Flow is no longer required.
6.5.28 Daily Profile Data Report
Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
to External entity j Supplier
Low Register Profile Coefficient
Noon Effective Temperature
Normal Register Profile Coefficient Period Profile Coefficient Value
Period Register On State Indicator
Profile Production Run Number
Standard Settlement Configuration Id Sunset Variable
6.5.29 Daily Profile Total Extract
Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Daily Profile Coefficient
Profile Production Run Number
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.30 Daily Profile Totals
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Daily Profile Coefficient
Profile Production Run Number
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator
Combined Load Regime Profile
Non Switched Load Class Profile
Switched Load Class Profile
6.5.32 Daily Standing Data
This data flow is no longer used.
6.5.33 Data Aggregator Assignments
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.4.1 Invoke Run
Effective From Settlement Date {DAIGG}
Effective To Settlement Date {DAIGG}
6.5.34 Data Collector Details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.1.5 Enter Data Collector Details
Effective From Date {DCIGG}
Effective To Date {DCIGG}
6.5.35 Data Collector Registrations
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
6.5.36 Dates of Clock Change
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1.1 Validate Settlements Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1.2 Validate Line Loss Factors
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
Process 2.1.2 Enter Calendar Details
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
Process 2.6 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
6.5.38 Deemed Supplier Take
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.4.9.4 Produce TUoS Report
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Period Supplier Deemed Take
6.5.39 Deemed Take for Reporting
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Period Supplier Deemed Take
Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take
6.5.40 Deemed Take Report
Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report
to External entity j Supplier
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
GSP Group Correction Factor
Period Supplier Deemed Take
Supplier Period Weighted Consumption
Total Period Weighted Consumption
Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity a Distribution Business
to External entity a Distribution Business
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity a Distribution Business
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
to External entity a Distribution Business
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Daily Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance
Daily Profiled SPM Total EAC
GSP Group Correction Factor
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Profiled SPM Consumption (repeating group of 50)
SPM Default EAC MSID Count
SPM Total Annualised Advance Report Value
Settlement Code Description
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.42 Existing line loss factor codes
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3.4 Maintain line loss factor codes
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 2.6 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.43 Existing scaling factors
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3.3 Maintain GSP correction scaling factors
Consumption Component Class Id
Effective From Settlement Date {GGCSF}
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
6.5.44 Existing Supplier details
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3.1 Maintain supplier details
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3.2 Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3.8 Assign NHH BM Units
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3.9 Enter BM Units Manually
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.4.2 Extract Data For EAC Calculator
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
6.5.46 GSP Correction Factors
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Consumption Component Class Id
GSP Group Correction Factor
6.5.47 GSP Group Assignments
External entity j Supplier
to External entity k ISR Agent
Changes to aggregator assignments
GSP Group Supplier Assignment
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1.1 Validate Settlements Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.3.2 Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
6.5.49 GSP Group Consumption Totals For Reporting
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2 Produce Supplier Reports
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
6.5.50 GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
to External entity j Supplier
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.51 GSP Group Corrected HH values
Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.9.2 Calculate Deemed Supplier Take
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Consumption Component Class Id
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
6.5.52 GSP Group Correction Scaling Weights
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Consumption Component Class Id
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.1.1 Enter GSP Group Details
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
6.5.55 GSP Group Purchases
This Data Flow is no longer used.
6.5.56 GSP Group Supplier Assignment
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.2 Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
Effective From Settlement Date {SIGG}
Effective To Settlement Date {SIGG}
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.3.4 Chunk Profiles
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2.3.3 Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
6.5.59 GSP Groups For Reporting
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report
to External entity j Supplier
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.61 HH Values by Supplier
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
6.5.62 Line Loss Class Factors
External entity a Distribution Business
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity a Distribution Business
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
External entity a Distribution Business
to Process 1.1.2 Validate Line Loss Factors
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.63 Line Loss Class Id
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.1.2 Validate Line Loss Factors
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.64 Line Loss Factors for Trading Day
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.8.3 Adjust for Line Losses
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.65 Line Losses for Reporting
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.66 LL Adjusted Aggregated Meter Data
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Data Aggregation Run Number
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
6.5.67 LL Adjusted HH Profiled Values
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Process 1.4.8.3 Adjust for Line Losses
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
6.5.68 Low Register State
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3.3 Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
Period Register On State Indicator
6.5.69 Market Domain Data
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to External entity k ISR Agent
Standing Configuration Data
Changes to distributor assignments
Changes to line loss factor codes
Changes to scaling factors
Changes to supplier details
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
6.5.70 Market Domain Data Complete Set
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2.6 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
Effective To Settlement Date {LLFC}
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Market Participant Role Code
Metering System Specific Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.71 Measurement Requirement Period State
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3.4 Chunk Profiles
Period Register On State Indicator
6.5.72 NHH BM Unit Allocations
Data Store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
To Process 1.2.7 Create Supplier BM Unit Report
Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
Effective From Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
6.5.73 Non Switched Load Class Profile
Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3.4 Chunk Profiles
Period Profile Coefficient Value
Profile Production Run Number
6.5.74 Noon Effective Temperature
Process 2.1.3 Calculate Noon Effective Temperature
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
Noon Effective Temperature
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.1 Enter Parameter Data
6.5.76 Period Profile Data
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
Measurement Requirement Period State
6.5.77 Pool Market Domain Data
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2.2.7 Load Pool Market Domain Data
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Type
Tele-switch Register Rule Id
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
6.5.78 Profile Class Assignments
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.4 Assign Configurations to Profile Classes
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.79 Profile Class Details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.5 Enter Profiles
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.5.1 Enter Profile Details
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2.5 Enter Profiles External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 2.5.1 Enter Profile Details
Profile Class Description
Profile Settlement Periods
Effective From Settlement Date {PROF} Effective To Settlement Date {PROF} Switched Load Profile Class Ind
6.5.80 Profile Run Status
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 1.4.1 Invoke Run
Profile Production Run Number
Process 1.4.8.1 Profile SPM data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.8.2 Aggregate Profiled Data
Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.4.8.3 Adjust for Line Losses
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance
Profiled SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.82 Profiles by Time Pattern
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 1.4.8.1 Profile SPM data
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
Period Profile Coefficient Value
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.83 Profiles by Timeslot
Process 2.3.4 Chunk Profiles
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Period Profile Coefficient Value
Profile Production Run Number
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
Standing Configuration Data
Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to External entity j Supplier
Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
to External entity j Supplier
Daily Profile Data Report
Standard Settlement Configuration Report
Standing Profile Data Report
Teleswitch Contact Interval Data Report
6.5.86 Profiling Run Request
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.3.1 Determine Time Pattern State
6.5.87 Profiling & line loss Data
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Line Loss Factors for Trading Day
6.5.88 Regime Identifiers
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Process 2.3.1 Determine Time Pattern State
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Period Register On State Indicator
6.5.90 Regression Equations
External entity i Profile Administrator
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
External entity i Profile Administrator
to Process 2.5 Enter Profiles
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
to Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
to Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
External entity i Profile Administrator
to Process 2.5.2 Enter Regression Equations
Effective From Settlement Date {PSET}
Group Average Annual Consumption
Regression Coefficient Type
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity j Supplier
to External entity k ISR Agent
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
6.5.92 Request for SSR Run
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity k ISR Agent
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.4.1 Invoke Run
Data Aggregation Run Number Data Aggregation Type
Data Aggregator Id GSP Group Id
SSA Settlement Run Number
SSA Settlement Run Type Id
6.5.93 Sett Period Profile Data
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
6.5.94 Settlement classes
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
External entity f Settlements Systems Administrator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity f Settlements Systems Administrator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
6.5.96 Settlement Data for Run
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
SPM Totals for Trading Day
6.5.97 Settlement Period Labels
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
6.5.98 Settlement Period Profile Data
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Amendment to Profile Run Status
6.5.99 Settlement Timetable
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.7 Maintain Settlement Timetable
External entity q Market Domain Data Agent
to Process 1.5 Load Settlement Timetable
6.5.100 Shared Standing Data
Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
Data Collector Registrations
6.5.101 [Split] Pool Funds Report
This Data Flow is no longer required. It is replaced by the BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File.
6.5.102 SPM Data for Report
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
Line Loss Factor Class Id
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.103 SPM data for trading day
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.8.1 Profile SPM data
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
Line Loss Factor Class Id
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.104 SPM Totals for Trading Day
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
to Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
SPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
to External entity j Supplier
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
GSP Group Correction Factor
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Transmission Loss Multiplier
Transmission Losses Reconciliation Multiplier
Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to Data store D4 SSR Runs
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
to Process 2.1 Enter Parameter Data
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
to Process 2.5 Enter Profiles
to Process 2.3.1 Determine Time Pattern State
to Process 2.1.4 Enter Time of Sunset
to Process 2.1.3 Calculate Noon Effective Temperature
to Process 2.1.2 Enter Calendar Details
to Process 2.2.1 Enter Settlement Configurations
to Process 2.2.4 Assign Configurations to Profile Classes
to Process 2.2.7 Load Pool Market Domain Data
to Data store D4 SSR Runs
to Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
to Process 2.5.1 Enter Profile Details
to Process 2.5.2 Enter Regression Equations
to Process 2.6 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
to Process 1.3.2 Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
to Process 1.3.3 Maintain GSP correction scaling factors
to Process 1.3.4 Maintain line loss factor codes
to Process 1.3.5 Specify Distributor for GSP Group
to Process 1.3.6 Specify Aggregator for GSP Group
to Process 1.3.7 Maintain Settlement Timetable
to Process 1.5 Load Settlement Timetable
to Data store D4 SSR Runs
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
to Process 1.2.7 Create Supplier BM Unit Report
6.5.108 Standard Configuration Details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.1 Enter Settlement Configurations
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Type
6.5.109 Standard Configurations
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.110 Standard Settlement Configuration Report
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
to External entity j Supplier
Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
End Time {Tele-switch Interval}
Start Time {Tele-switch Interval}
Profile Class Description
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Switched Load Profile Class Ind
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
6.5.111 Standing Configuration Data
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Profile Class Assignments
Standard Configuration Details
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
6.5.112 Standing Data Changes
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
Changes to aggregator assignments
Changes to distributor assignments
Changes to line loss factor codes
Changes to scaling factors
Changes to supplier details
GSP Group Supplier Assignment
6.5.113 Standing Data for DUoS Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.114 Standing Data for Reporting
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2.3 Create Deemed Take Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.115 Standing Data for Run
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Data Aggregator Assignments
GSP Group Correction Scaling Weights
Standing Data for DUoS Report
6.5.116 Standing Data for Validation
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
Existing line loss factor codes
Existing supplier details
6.5.117 Standing Profile Data Report
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
to External entity j Supplier
Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
to External entity b Non-HH Data Collector
Effective From Settlement Date {PROF}
Effective To Settlement Date {PROF}
Group Average Annual Consumption
Profile Class Description
Regression Coefficient Type
Switched Load Profile Class Ind
6.5.118 Standing Regime Data
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
6.5.119 Substitute SSA Data
External entity c Electricity Pool
to External entity k ISR Agent
6.5.120 Supplier and GSP Group Purchases
to Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.4.13 Determine Supplier Purchases
Daily GSP Group Purchases
Period GSP Group Purchases
Period Supplier Purchase Total
6.5.121 Supplier and Line Loss details
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
6.5.122 Supplier BM Unit Report
Process 1.2.7 Create Supplier BM Unit Report
to External entity j Supplier
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated BM Unit Energy
Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
Daily Aggregated BM Unit Energy
Daily Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
Daily Corrected BM Unit Energy
Daily Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
Daily Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Daily Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Settlement Code Description
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
6.5.124 Supplier Demand for Reporting
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2.2 Create HH Demand Report
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.125 Supplier Energy Allocations
Data store 1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
to Process 1.2.7 Create Supplier BM Unit Report
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.126 Supplier Purchase Matrix Data
External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
Data Aggregation Run Number
Line Loss Factor Class Id
SPM Default EAC MSID Count
SPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
SPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.127 Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
to External entity j Supplier
Data Aggregation Run Number
Line Loss Factor Class Id
SPM Default EAC MSID Count
SPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
SPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.128 Supplier Purchase Report
Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report
to External entity j Supplier
Daily Supplier Purchase Total
Daily GSP Group Purchases
Period GSP Group Purchases
Period Supplier Deemed Take
Period Supplier Purchase Total
6.5.129 Supplier Purchases for Reporting
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.2 Produce SSR Supplier Reports
Data store D1/4 Supplier Purchases
to Process 1.2.4 Create Supplier Purchase Report
Daily GSP Group Purchases
Period GSP Group Purchases
Period Supplier Purchase Total
6.5.130 Switched Load Class Profile
Process 2.3.2 Evaluate Regression Equations
to Data store D2 Daily Profiles
Period Profile Coefficient Value
Profile Production Run Number
6.5.131 Switched Load Profile
Data store D2 Daily Profiles
to Process 2.3.3 Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
Period Profile Coefficient Value
6.5.132 Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.10 Enter Teleswitch Interval Contact Details
Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Tele-switch Contact State
6.5.133 Teleswitch Contact Interval Data Report
Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier and DC Profile Reports
to External entity j Supplier
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Tele-switch Contact State
6.5.134 Teleswitch Contact Intervals
External entity e Teleswitch Agent
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
External entity e Teleswitch Agent
to Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
External entity e Teleswitch Agent
to Process 2.2.6 Load Teleswitch Contact Intervals
Date (Midnight to Midnight UTC)
Start of Day Tele-switch On Indicator
Tele-switch Contact State
6.5.135 Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.9 Enter Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
Tele-switch Register Rule Id
Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime Id
Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2.4 Produce Profile Reports
Process 2.3.1 Determine Time Pattern States
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2.4.1 Produce Supplier and DC Profile Reports
End Time {Tele-switch Interval}
Start Time {Tele-switch Interval}
External entity d Authorised Temperature Provider
to External entity k ISR Agent
External entity r Sunset Provider
to Process 2 Daily Profile Production
External entity r Sunset Provider
to Process 2.1 Enter Parameter Data
External entity r Sunset Provider
to Process 2.1.4 Enter Time of Sunset
6.5.139 Time Pattern Assignments
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.3 Assign Time Patterns to Configurations
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.140 Time Pattern Details
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 2.2.2 Enter Time Patterns
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Validated Clock Intervals
Validated Configuration Data
Validated Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
Validated Teleswitch Contact Intervals
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2.3 Calculate Daily Profiles
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 2.3.1 Determine Time Pattern State
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Tele-switch Contact State
Tele-switch Register Rule Id
Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Validated Line Loss Factors
to Process 1.4.8.1 Profile SPM data
Process 1.4.8.3 Adjust for Line Losses
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
to Process 1.4.13 Determine Supplier Purchases
Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
to Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
Process 1.4.9.1 Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
to Process 1.4.9.2 Calculate Deemed Supplier Take
Process 1.4.9.2 Calculate Deemed Supplier Take
to Process 1.4.9.4 Produce TUoS Report
to Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
Process 1.4.8 Profile & Line Loss Adjust SPM
to Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
Process 1.4.8.1 Profile SPM data
to Process 1.4.8.2 Aggregate Profiled Data
Process 1.4.8.2 Aggregate Profiled Data
to Process 1.4.8.3 Adjust for Line Losses
Process 1.4.9.4 Produce TUoS Report
to Process 1.4.9.5 Produce DUoS Report
6.5.145 TUoS Report (HH/NHH Split)
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity h TUoS
to External entity h TUoS
Process 1.4.9.4 Produce TUoS Report
to External entity h TUoS
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity h TUoS
Corrected Daily BMU Gross HH Demand
Corrected Period BMU Gross HH Demand
Daily Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
Daily BMU Gross HH Storage Demand
Daily HH Allocated Volume
Daily NHH Allocated Volume
Daily Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
Daily Supplier Deemed Take
Period BMU Gross Storage Demand
Period BMU HH Allocated Volume
Period BMU NHH Allocated Volume
Period Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
Period Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
Period Supplier Deemed Take
6.5.146 Updates to aggregator assignments
Process 1.3.6 Specify Aggregator for GSP Group
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {DAIGG}
Effective To Settlement Date {DAIGG}
6.5.147 Changes to BM Unit Details
Process 1.3.9 Enter BM Units Manually
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
Supplier Market Participant Id
Supplier Market Participant Role Code
Effective To Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
6.5.148 Updates to NHH BM Unit allocations
Process 1.3.8 Assign NHH BM Units
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
Effective From Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
6.5.149 Updates to distributor assignments
Process 1.3.5 Specify Distributor for GSP Group
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {GGD}
Effective To Settlement Date {GGD}
6.5.150 Updates to line loss factor codes
Process 1.3.4 Maintain line loss factor codes
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Process 2.6 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.151 Updates to scaling factors
Process 1.3.3 Maintain GSP correction scaling factors
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Consumption Component Class Id
Effective From Settlement Date {GGCSF}
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
6.5.152 Updates to Standing Data
Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Updates to aggregator assignments
Updates to distributor assignments
Updates to line loss factor codes
Updates to scaling factors
Updates to supplier details
Validated GSP Group Supplier Assignments
6.5.153 Updates to supplier details
Process 1.3.1 Maintain supplier details
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
6.5.154 Validated Assignments
Process 2.2.3 Assign Time Patterns to Configurations
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.155 Validated Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Process 2.2.8 Specify Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Effective To Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.156 Validated Clock Change
Process 2.1.2 Enter Calendar Details
to Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
6.5.157 Validated Clock Intervals
Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Process 2.2.5 Enter Clock Intervals
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
6.5.158 Validated Configuration Data
Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Validated Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Validated Configuration Details
Validated Pool Market Domain Data
Validated Profile Class Assignments
Validated Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
6.5.159 Validated Configuration Details
Process 2.2.1 Enter Settlement Configurations
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.160 Validated Data Collector Details
Process 2.1.5 Enter Data Collector Details
to Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
Effective From Date {DCIGG}
Effective To Date {DCIGG}
6.5.161 Validated GSP Group Details
Process 2.1.1 Enter GSP Group Details
to Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
Effective From Date {IAA}
6.5.162 Validated GSP Group Supplier Assignments
Process 1.3.2 Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {SIGG}
Effective To Settlement Date {SIGG}
6.5.163 Validated GSP Group Take
Process 1.1.1 Validate Settlements Data
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Daily GSP Group Purchases
Period GSP Group Purchases
SSA Settlement Run Number
6.5.164 Validated Line Loss Factors
Process 1.1.2 Validate Line Loss Factors
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Line Loss Factor Class Id
6.5.165 Validated Parameter Changes
Process 2.1 Enter Parameter Data
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
Noon Effective Temperature
6.5.166 Validated Pool Market Domain Data
Process 2.2.7 Load Pool Market Domain Data
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Effective To Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Type
Tele-switch Register Rule Id
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
6.5.167 Validated Price Data
This Data Flow is no longer required.
6.5.168 Validated Profile Class Assignments
Process 2.2.4 Assign Configurations to Profile Classes
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.169 Validated Profile Details
Process 2.5 Enter Profiles
to Data store D2/3 Profiles
Process 2.5.1 Enter Profile Details
to Data store D2/3 Profiles
Profile Class Description
Profile Settlement Periods
Effective From Settlement Date {PROF} Effective To Settlement Date {PROF} Switched Load Profile Class Ind
6.5.170 Validated Regression Equations
Process 2.5 Enter Profiles
to Data store D2/3 Profiles
Process 2.5.2 Enter Regression Equations
to Data store D2/3 Profiles
Group Average Annual Consumption
Regression Coefficient Type
6.5.171 Validated Settlement Timetable
Process 1.3 Update SSR Standing Data
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Process 1.3.7 Maintain Settlement Timetable
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Process 1.5 Load Settlement Timetable
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
6.5.172 Validated Shared Standing Data
Process 2 Daily Profile Production
to Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
Process 2.1 Enter Parameter Data
to Data store D3 Shared Standing Data
Validated Data Collector Details
Validated GSP Group Details
Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
to Data store D1/1 Trading Day Data
Line Loss Factor Class Id
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.174 Validated Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Process 2.2.10 Enter Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Tele-switch Contact State
6.5.175 Validated Teleswitch Contact Intervals
Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Process 2.2.6 Load Teleswitch Contact Intervals
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Date (Midnight to Midnight UTC)
Start of Day Tele-switch On Indicator
Tele-switch Contact State
6.5.176 Validated Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
Process 2.2 Record Time Patterns
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Process 2.2.9 Load Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Tele-switch Register Rule Id
Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime Id
6.5.177 Validated Time of Sunset
Process 2.1 Enter Time of Sunset
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
Process 2.1.4 Enter Time of Sunset
to Data store D2/1 Daily Parameters
6.5.178 Validated Time Patterns
Process 2.2.2 Enter Time Patterns
to Data store D1 Time Regimes
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
6.5.179 Valid SSC and PC Details
Data store D1 Time Regimes
to Process 1.3.8 Assign NHH BM Units
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.180 Supplier Disconnection Matrix Report
Process 1.2.8 Create Supplier Disconnection Matrix Report
to External entity j Supplier
Data Aggregation Run Number
Line Loss Factor Class Id
DPM Default EAC MSID Count
DPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
DPM Total Annualised Advance
DPM Total Unmetered Consumption
DPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.181 Aggregated Disconnected DUoS Report
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity a Distribution Business
to External entity a Distribution Business
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity a Distribution Business
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9.6 Produce Aggregated Disconnected DUoS Report
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9.6 Produce Aggregated Disconnected DUoS Report
to External entity a Distribution Business
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Daily Profiled DPM Total Annualised Advance
Daily Profiled DPM Total EAC
GSP Group Correction Factor
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Profiled DPM Consumption (repeating group of 50)
DPM Default EAC MSID Count
DPM Total Annualised Advance Report Value
Settlement Code Description
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.182 GSP Group Demand Disconnection Consumption Totals Report
Process 1.2.10 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
to External entity j Supplier
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.183 Supplier BM Unit Demand Disconnection Report
Process 1.2.11 Create Supplier BM Unit Demand Disconnection Report
to External entity j Supplier
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated BM Unit Energy
Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
Daily Aggregated BM Unit Energy
Daily Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
Daily Corrected BM Unit Energy
Daily Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
Daily Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Daily Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
Settlement Code Description
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
6.5.184 Aggregated Embedded Network Disconnected DUoS Report
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity a Distribution Business
to External entity a Distribution Business
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity a Distribution Business
Process 1.4.9 Calculate Deemed Take
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9.7 Produce Aggregated Embedded Network Disconnected DUoS Report
to External entity j Supplier
Process 1.4.9.7 Produce Aggregated Embedded Network Disconnected DUoS Report
to External entity a Distribution Business
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Daily Profiled DPM Total Annualised Advance
Daily Profiled DPM Total EAC
Embedded Distributor Name
GSP Group Correction Factor
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Profiled DPM Consumption (repeating group of 50)
DPM Default EAC MSID Count
DPM Total Annualised Advance Report Value
Settlement Code Description
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.185 Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes
to Process 1.1.7 Manage Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly Demand Volumes
Process 1.1.7 Manage Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly
to External entity l HH Data Collector
Process 1.1.7 Manage Disconnected MSIDs and Estimated Half Hourly
to External entity b NHH Data Collector
Estimated HH Demand Disconnection Volume
6.5.186 HH Demand Disconnection Report
Process 1.2.9 HH Demand Disconnection Report
to External entity j Supplier
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated Supplier Disconnected Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Disconnected Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected Supplier Disconnected Consumption
Corrected Supplier Disconnected Line Loss
Data Aggregator HH Disconnected MSID Count
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.187 Supplier’s Demand Disconnection Volume Data File
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated Supplier Disconnection Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Disconnection Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Data Aggregation Run Number
Data Aggregator HH Disconnected MSID Count
6.5.188 Disconnection Purchase Matrix Data
External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
External entity p Non-HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1.4 Validate SPM Data
Data Aggregation Run Number
Line Loss Factor Class Id
DPM Default EAC MSID Count
DPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
DPM Total Annualised Advance
DPM Total Unmetered Consumption
DPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.189 BM Unit Aggregated HH Demand Disconnection Data File
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
External entity o HH Data Aggregator
to Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
Process 1.1.3 Validate HH Data
to Data store D1/3 Supplier HH Demand
Aggregated BM Unit Demand Disconnection Energy
Aggregated BM Unit Demand Disconnection Line Losses
Consumption Component Class Id
Data Aggregator HH Disconnected MSID Count
6.5.190 BM Unit Disconnected Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File
Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
Process 1.4.13.2 Generate BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data File
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
Process 1.4.13 Determine Supplier Energy Allocations
to External entity g Settlement Administration Agent
Period BM Unit Total Allocated Disconnected Volume
6.5.191 Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems
External entity a Distribution Business
to Process 1 Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation
External entity a Distribution Business
to Process 1.1 Marshal Incoming Data
External entity a Distribution Business
to Process 1.1.6 Validate Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems
Line Loss Factor Class Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Description
6.5.192 Supplier Quarterly Volume Report
Process 1.2.12 Supplier Quarterly Volume Report
to External entity e Electricity Pool
Number of Settlement Runs in Quarter
Number of Settlement Days in Report
Supplier Volume Reporting Group
Quarterly Average MPAN Count
6.5.193 BSCCo GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
Process 1.2.5 Create GSP Group Consumption Totals Report
to External entity e Electricity Pool
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Consumption Component Class Id
Consumption Component Indicator
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
6.5.194 GSP Group Market Matrix Report
Process 1.2.1 Create Supplier Purchase Matrix Report
to External entity e Electricity Pool
Data Aggregation Run Number
Line Loss Factor Class Id
SPM Default EAC MSID Count
SPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
SPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
6.5.195 Specify Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
External entity k ISR Agent
to Process 1.3.10 Maintain Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
Effective From Settlement Date {FDEDA}
Effective To Settlement Date {FDEDA}
6.5.196 Updates to Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
Process 1.3.10 Maintain Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
to Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
Effective From Settlement Date {FDEDA}
Effective To Settlement Date {FDEDA}
6.5.197 Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
Data store D1/2 SSR Standing Data
to Process 1.4.1 Invoke Run
Effective From Settlement Date {FDEDA}
Effective To Settlement Date {FDEDA}
7. LOGICAL DATA STRUCTURE
1. The ISRA Logical Data Model describes the data of interest to the Supplier Settlements and Reconciliation (SSR) and the Daily Profile Production Systems.
2. The model covers the groupings of data items which are required by ISRA to perform the processes within their scope and some entities which are required to define the structure and relationships of the data but which are not processed by ISRA. These latter entities will be processed by other 1998 component systems.
3. The model consists of:
3.1. A Logical Data Structure (diagram);
3.2. Entity Descriptions, including indications of the source of data items and where they are used;
3.3. List of the main attributes for each entity. The primary key attributes are indicated by ‘p’, foreign key attributes are indicated by an asterisk (*) and optional attributes are indicated by 'o'.
3.4. An Entity-Datastore cross reference in Section 8.
Descriptions of the data items populating the entities is given in Appendix B. A key to the LDS notation used in the diagram in Appendix C.
7.2 Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency
It can be seen that in the entity descriptions that are included in the Initial Settlement and Reconciliation Agency System data model, that the names of some of the data items are replicated. The replication occurrences take the form of the original data item name suffixed with a number - usually 1, 2 or 11. This is a feature of the Select SSADM Professional Version 4.01 CASE tool used to build the data model, in which primary keys in a master entity are automatically transferred to a detail entity as foreign keys.
For the purposes of understanding, the reader is advised to take note only of the first listed data item (to see whether it is prime/foreign/optional/ordinary) and to ignore any subsequently listed occurrences.
7.2.2 Aggregated Supplier DA Period Consumption
Description: The aggregated HH metered consumption, Non-Pooled Generation or line loss for a supplier, within a GSP Group, by BM Unit (optional), Consumption Component Class and Settlement Period. The BM Unit value is allowed to be optional as this metered consumption, Non-Pooled Generation or line loss will then be allocated to the Base BM Unit by the Settlement Run.
The Consumption Component Class determines what the Aggregated Supplier Consumption or Aggregated Supplier Line Loss actually represents.
p * Data Aggregation Run Number
p * Consumption Component Class Id
p * BM Unit Id as Specified by HH Data Aggregator
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
o Aggregated BM Unit Energy
o Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
7.2.3 Aggregated BM Unit Period Consumption
Description: The aggregated profiled consumption or Line Loss derived for a BM Unit, by Consumption Component Class, for a Settlement Period. Aggregated consumption is calculated separately for each Consumption Component Class; the line loss consumption components are aggregated separately.
The Consumption Component Class determines which type the BM Unit consumption or line loss represents.
Corrected BM Unit Energy is derived by applying the GSP Group Correction Factor to the appropriate consumption components; Corrected Line Losses Component is derived by applying the GSP Group Correction Factor to the appropriate line loss components.
p * Consumption Component Class Id
Aggregated BM Unit Energy
Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
7.2.4 Aggregated Supplier Period Consumption
Description: The aggregated profiled consumption or Line Loss derived for a supplier, within a GSP Group, by Consumption Component Class, for a Settlement Period. Aggregated consumption is calculated separately for each Consumption Component Class; the line loss consumption components are aggregated separately.
Aggregated supplier consumption is derived from one of:
a) applying profiles to aggregated EACs and summing across Settlement Classes and Data Aggregators for each Supplier or
b) applying profiles to aggregated Annualised Advances and summing across Settlement Classes and Data Aggregators, for each Supplier.
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss is derived from adjusting the profiled consumption for each Line Loss Class and summing across Settlement Classes and Data Aggregators, for the Supplier.
The Consumption Component Class determines which type the supplier consumption or line loss represents.
Corrected Supplier Consumption is derived by applying the GSP Correction Factor to the appropriate consumption components; Corrected Line Loss Component is derived by applying the GSP Group Correction Factor to the appropriate line loss components.
p * Consumption Component Class Id
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
Corrected Supplier Consumption
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
7.2.5 Average Fraction Of Yearly Consumption
Description: A specification of the average fraction of consumption which is attributed to a particular Measurement Requirement, in the context of a particular GSP Group, Standard Settlement Configuration and Profile Class.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
p * Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
* Standard Settlement Configuration Id1
* Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
7.2.6 Average Fraction Of Yearly Consumption Set
Description: A set of data specifying how, on average, consumption is split across registers for a particular GSP Group, Standard Settlement Configuration and Profile Class.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
o Effective To Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
* Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
7.2.7 Basic Period Profile Coefficient
Description: A profile coefficient which when applied to an annualised advance value (EAC or AA) supplies an estimate of consumption for a specific Settlement Period. A Basic Period Profile Coefficient is obtained by evaluating a Period Regression Equation for a Profile within a GSP Group, without modification for any particular time regime.
Period Profile Coefficient Value
7.2.8 BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group
Description: The valid combination of BM Unit, Supplier and GSP Group.
p Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
* Supplier Market Participant Id
* Supplier Market Participant Role Code
o Effective To Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
Description: The 'on' interval of a clock based Time Pattern Regime. Clock Intervals for a Time Pattern Regime are defined in terms of Date Blocks, Days of the Week and Time Blocks (GMT start and end times). The time blocks do not necessarily lie on a half hour boundary.
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
Description: A change in the clock time protocol being used.
7.2.11 Clock Time Pattern Regime
Description: A Time Pattern Regime associated with a clock-switched Standard Settlement Configuration.
7.2.12 Combined Period Profile Coefficient
Description: A profile coefficient which when applied to an annualised advance value (EAC or AA) supplies an estimate of consumption for a specific Settlement Period. A Combined Profile Coefficient is derived for each valid combination of Switched Load Profile Class (a Profile Class which has at least one switched load Profile) and Standard Settlement Configuration, and includes both the base and switched load components.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Normal Register Profile Coefficient
Low Register Profile Coefficient
* Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
7.2.13 Consumption Component Class
Description: The class of Half Hourly Consumption and Non-Pool Generation which has been calculated or aggregated. Consumption is summed/calculated in each of these different components in order that the GSP Group Correction Factor can be applied (or not, as required) to each. The classes are dependent upon valid combinations of the attributes specified, i.e. whether the consumption is:
1) for Half Hourly or Non Half Hourly
2) for Metered or Unmetered supply,
3) Actual / estimated consumption,
4) Based on AA or EAC calculation,
5) Metering System Specific Line Loss, Non Metering System Specific Line Loss or base consumption,
6) Active Import or Active Export.
The Half Hourly classes are further dependant upon whether the half hourly demand associated with a site is above or below 100kW. There will be two Consumption Component Classes for each Half Hourly Metered Consumption/Losses for actual or estimated readings; one for sites above 100kW, and one for sites below 100kW. Note that this relates to Active Import Consumption Component Classes only.
Initially, only combinations of the following will have the Scaling Factor set to 1 i.e. have the GSP Group Correction Factor applied:
Non-half hourly; metered or unmetered; actual/ estimated; EAC/AA; base consumption/non-metering system specific line loss; active import/ active export.
p Consumption Component Class Id
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Consumption Component Indicator
* Measurement Quantity Id
7.2.14 Daily Profile Coefficient
Description: The sum of all Period Profile Class Coefficients for a Settlement Day, within GSP Group, for a Profile Class and Measurement Requirement combination.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
Daily Profile Coefficient
7.2.15 Daily Profile Parameters
Description: For each GSP Group, values must be supplied for a number of parameters for each Settlement Day. These are substituted into the Period Regression Equations to calculate the Basic Period Profile Coefficients. The parameters include:
The deemed time of sunset is known and can be specified up to a year in advance. Actual Noon Temperature cannot be specified until the day following the Settlement Day. Noon Effective Temperature is derived from the average of Actual Noon Temperature over a number of days.
Noon Effective Temperature
Description: An organisation that is Qualified in accordance with BSCP537 (Reference 21) to perform half hourly or non half hourly data aggregation.
7.2.17 Data Aggregator In GSP Group
Description: Record of Data Aggregator agreement to perform data aggregation for a supplier for an aggregation type by GSP Group.
p Effective From Settlement Date {DAIGG}
o Effective To Settlement Date {DAIGG}
* Effective From Settlement Date {SIGG}
Description: An organisation that is Qualified in accordance with BSCP537 (Reference 21) to periodically collect and process meter readings and derive consumptions.
7.2.19 Data Collector in GSP Group
Description: Record of a Data Collector being active in a GSP Group.
p Effective From Date {DCIGG}
o Effective To Date {DCIGG}
Description: A block of dates within the year, forming part of the definition of a Clock Interval.
Description: A day of the week (e.g. Saturday), forming part of the definition of a Clock Interval.
Description: A type of day, used to determine which set of regression equations and which time patterns are valid on a specific Settlement Day.
Valid Initial Set: Saturday, Sunday, Weekday
Description: An organisation which owns and operates a distribution system.
Description: A distinct electrical system, consisting of all or part of one or more distribution systems (each owned and operated by a LDSO) that are supplied from one or more Grid Supply Points for which the total supply into the GSP Group can be determined for each half hour. (OF410)
7.2.25 GSP Group Average EAC
Description: The average Estimated Annual Consumption attributable to Metering Systems in a Profile Class, by profile within a GSP Group.
p * Effective From Settlement Date {PSET}
Group Average Annual Consumption
7.2.26 GSP Group Correction Factor
Description: The factor by which the total deemed take for each Supplier, calculated by ISRA, must be corrected in order to equal the GSP Group Take from the GSPs in the GSP Group. The GSP Group Correction Factor for a Settlement Period is derived from the total take for the GSP Group and the aggregated consumption. The total take for a GSP Group for a Settlement Period is supplied by the SSA.
GSP Group Correction Factor
7.2.27 GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
Description: A specification of the degree to which a GSP Group Correction Factor is applied to a Consumption Component Class. Currently, the values are 0 (not applied) and 1 (applied). However, future values are accommodated for, such as between 0 and 1 (partially applied) and greater than 1 (over-applied).
p * Consumption Component Class Id
p Effective From Settlement Date {GGCSF}
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
7.2.28 GSP Group Distributor
Description: A Distributor operating in a GSP Group, from the specified Effective Date.
p Effective From Settlement Date {GGD}
o Effective To Settlement Date {GGD}
Description: The summed metered consumption for all the GSPs - measured at GSP level - for a GSP Group in a half-hour Settlement Period. It is supplied by the SSA for each SSA Settlement Run.
p * SSA Settlement Run Number
Period GSP Group Purchases
7.2.30 ISR Agent Appointment
Description: The ISRA system holds details of all GSP Groups for which the ISR Agent operating the system is responsible. These may change over time.
p * GSP Group Id p * Effective From Date{IAA} o Effective To Date{IAA}
7.2.31 Line Loss Factor Class
Description: A classification of Line Loss Factors, drawn up by a Distributor and distributed via the Market Domain Data Agent, which represents a set of Line Loss Factors and the times for which they are applicable. Line Loss Factor Classes may be drawn up by the Distributor for general areas of their system and hence may be appropriate for many Metering Systems. Alternatively they may be drawn up by the Distributor for specific areas of their system and hence may only be appropriate for a small number (possibly only one) of Metering Systems. The latter type are referred to as Metering System Specific Line Loss Factor Classes. ISRA only maintains details of the general Line Loss Factor Classes.
p Line Loss Factor Class Id
p Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
o Effective To Settlement Date {LLFC}
7.2.32 Measurement Quantity
Description: A quantity which may be measured by registers of Metering Systems. Valid initial set is:
iii) Reactive kVArh Import
iv) Reactive kVArh Export
Only the first two are relevant to Initial Settlement and Reconciliation.
p Measurement Quantity Id
7.2.33 Measurement Requirement
Description: A Standard Settlement Configuration requirement for consumption to be measured during a Time Pattern Regime.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
7.2.34 Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation
Description: A Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class allocated to a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group.
p * Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
p Effective From Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
o Effective To Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
7.2.35 Period Profile Class Coefficient
Description: A Profile Coefficient which when applied to an annualised advance value (EAC or AA) supplies an estimate of consumption for a specific Settlement Period. A Period Profile Class Coefficient is derived for a valid Profile Class within Time Pattern Regime, taking into account any switched load and chunking.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
Period Profile Coefficient Value
7.2.36 Period Regression Equation
Description: A Regression Equation and associated Regression Coefficients for a Settlement Period (1 to 50) within a Profile and GSP Group, for a season and day type combination. When evaluated using GSP Group and Settlement Date specific parameters, the regression equation produces a Period Profile Coefficient. The Regression Equation may change over time.
p * Effective From Settlement Date {PSET}
7.2.37 Period Supplier Purchase
Description: The total value of purchases for a Supplier within a GSP Group, for a Settlement Period derived during a specific SSR Run for the Settlement Day.
Period Supplier Deemed Take
Period Supplier Purchase Total
Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take
7.2.38 Period Time Pattern State
Description: The state of a Time Pattern Regime during a Settlement Period, indicating whether the time pattern is 'On' or not. The indicator is derived from a Clock Interval or Teleswitch Interval.
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
p Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Period Register On State Indicator
Description: A pattern of consumption of electricity, by half hour, across a year. The shape of the profile is defined by sets of Profile Coefficients, which are derived by evaluating Regression Equations.
Profiles for Economy 7 Profile Classes are either for switched load or base load.
Profile Settlement Periods
Effective From Settlement Date {PROF}
o Effective To Settlement Date {PROF}
Description: A group of customers whose consumption can be reasonably approximated to a common profile for Settlement purposes.
non-domestic unrestricted
four different load factor bands for non-domestic maximum demand meters.
Profile Class Description
Switched Load Profile Class Ind
7.2.41 Profile Production Run in GSP Group
Description: An occurrence of a run of the profile production process for a GSP Group and Settlement Day.
p Profile Production Run Number
7.2.42 Profile Regression Equation Set
Description: The set of regression equations for a profile, for a season and day type combination. The equations may change over time.
p * Effective From Settlement Date {PSET}
Description: A set of data for a Profile, comprising one or more Profile regression Equation Sets, and a GSP Group Average EAC for each GSP Group.
p Effective From Settlement Date {PSET}
Description: The set of data created by applying half hourly profiles to the EAC, AA and Unmetered Totals in a SPM.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
p * Line Loss Factor Class Id
Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance
Profiled SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
7.2.45 Regression Coefficient
Description: Regression Coefficients derived from multiple ordinary least squares linear regression analyses of the effects of temperature, time of sunset and day of week on the average demand (kW) per customer in a defined group, at each half-hour of the day in different periods of the year. The effect of season is catered for by deriving a set for each season and therefore it does not appear as a parameter in the equation.
p * Profile Class Id p * Profile Id p * Effective From Settlement Date{PSET} p * Day Type Id p * Season Id p * Settlement Period Id p * Regression Coefficient Type Regression Coefficient
7.2.46 Regression Coefficient Type
Description: The types of Regression Coefficients derived from the analyses (see Regression Coefficients). The initial set are:
Time of Sunset (Time of Sunset)2 Noon Effective Temperature Day of Week 1 Day of Week 2 Day of Week 3 Day of Week 4 Constant
Contains Attributes p Regression Coefficient Type
Description: A contiguous block of days having similar weather characteristics occurring at different times of the year.
Seasons do not vary between GSP groups.
Description: A calculation of the funds to be cleared between Suppliers and Generators in respect of electricity traded through the Pool. This includes settlement and reconciliation.
For each Settlement Day the Pool publishes a schedule of settlements. It may include target dates for completing the major business functions and running the various component 1998 systems (Data Processing, Data Aggregation, DPP, Existing Settlements and SSR).
Description: The combination which defines the level at which non-Half Hourly Data Aggregators must supply aggregated EAC and AA values - that is for a Measurement Requirement, Profile and Line Loss Factor Class within a GSP Group.
p * Line Loss Factor Class Id
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
* Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
Description: A day in local time (not GMT), of a certain day type, within a season, on which electricity is traded and settled.
Description: A half hour period within a Settlement Day.
7.2.52 Settlement Period Line Loss Factor
Description: The Line Loss Factor to be applied for a Line Loss Factor Class during a Settlement Period. A Line Loss Factor is the factor by which consumption is multiplied to derive an estimate of consumption at GSP level. They have a value >1. Line Loss Factor values are determined by the distribution area and will be specified as varying from half hour to half hour, by day type, season and over time. For the purposes of Initial Settlement and Reconciliation they are expressed here as a value by Settlement Period and Line Loss Factor Class.
p * Line Loss Factor Class Id
* Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
7.2.53 SSA Settlement Run
Description: Records for the Preliminary, Provisional and Final SSA Runs. Used by the SSR Run to reference GSP Group Takes for the set of Settlement Periods in a Settlement Day.
p SSA Settlement Run Number
SSA Settlement Run Type Id
7.2.54 SSA Settlement GSP Group
Description: Daily totals supplied by the SSA by GSP Group to enable ISRA to balance GSP group Purchases
p * SSA Settlement Run Number p * Settlement Date p * GSP Group Id Daily GSP Group Purchases
7.2.55 SSR Run in GSP Group
Description: An occurrence of a run of the SSR Initial Settlement or Reconciliation process for a GSP Group. Audit data will be held against each run.
* SSA Settlement Run Number
* Profile Production Run Number
Description: Type of SSR settlement or reconciliation run. Values might include Final Settlement, Provisional Reconciliation, Final Reconciliation, Dispute Final Settlement.
7.2.57 Standard Settlement Configuration
Description: A standard configuration, supported by Initial Settlement and Reconciliation, which Metering Systems may assume, comprising a set of Time Pattern Regimes, which together ensure that the Metering System is measuring consumption at all times and is not measuring more than once at any time.
Settlement Configurations only apply to Non HH Metering Systems, and can record consumption (active import) and generation (active export). A Standard Settlement Configuration comprises the set of Time Pattern Regimes which ensures that consumption is measured without duplication at all times.
A Standard Settlement Configuration which defines a teleswitched configuration must be assigned to a Teleswitch Group.
p Standard Settlement Configuration Id
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Standard Settlement Configuration Type
Description: An organisation that may buy energy through the Pool and supply it to a customer - each supply to a customer being measured by a Metering System. Each such supply must be registered with the Pool through the Supplier's registration of the Metering System.
7.2.59 Supplier Data Aggregation
Description: A link entity tying a particular Data Aggregator for a Supplier within a GSP Group to a particular SSR Run.
p Data Aggregation Run Number
p * Data Aggregation Type
* Effective From Settlement Date {DAIGG}
Date and Time Sent {Aggregation Run}
7.2.60 Supplier Data Aggregation Used In SSR Run
Description: A link entity between the Supplier Data Aggregation and SSR Run entities to reflect that more than one SSR Run may be associated with each occurrence of Supplier Data Aggregation and vice versa.
p * Data Aggregation Run Number
p * Data Aggregation Type
7.2.61 Supplier In GSP Group
Description: The link entity between Suppliers and GSP Groups, reflecting that a Supplier can supply to one or more GSP Groups and that a GSP Group may have one or more Suppliers.
p Effective From Settlement Date {SIGG}
o Effective To Settlement Date {SIGG}
7.2.62 Supplier Purchase Matrix
Description: The Estimated Annual Consumption and Annualised Advance totals for a Supplier for: a GSP Group, Profile Class, Line Loss Factor Class and Measurement Class (collectively known as Settlement Class).
p * Data Aggregation Run Number
p * Line Loss Factor Class Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
SPM Total Annualised Advance
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
SPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
SPM Default EAC MSID Count
SPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
7.2.63 Teleswitch Contact
Description: One of the logical contacts within each teleswitched meter. The values of Tele-switch Contact Codes permitted by the current teleswitching infrastructure are ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’.
p Tele-switch Contact Code
7.2.64 Teleswitch Contact Interval
Description: An interval of time during which a particular Teleswitch Contact is in a particular state within all metering systems in a particular Teleswitch Group.
p* Tele-switch Contact Code
p Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
Tele-switch Contact State
7.2.65 Teleswitch Contact Rule
Description: The relationship between a Teleswitch Contact and a Teleswitch Register Rule. The Teleswitch Contact Rule can take one of two values:
0 = the Teleswitch Register Rule is only satisfied if the Teleswitch Contact is off;
1 = the Teleswitch Register Rule is only satisfied if the Teleswitch Contact is on.
p* Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime Id
p* Tele-switch Register Rule Id
p* Tele-switch Contact Code
Description: A group of metering systems which are controlled by the same teleswitch messages, such that the contacts defined in the metering systems switch at the same times (except for an element of random switching diversity, which is not currently modelled by the settlement process). Each group is controlled by a particular user. There are a maximum of 16 users allowed by the Teleswitch infrastructure, and a maximum of 256 groups per user.
7.2.67 Teleswitch Interval
Description: The 'on' interval of a Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime. Teleswitch Intervals for a Time Pattern Regime are defined for specific Settlement Day and Time Block (start and end times). The time blocks may not be on a half hour boundary. Teleswitch Intervals are derived from Teleswitch Contact Intervals using Teleswitch Register Rules and Teleswitch Contact Rules. If a Teleswitch Contact Interval spans a Settlement Day boundary, it will result in a number of occurrences of Teleswitch Interval.
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
p Start Time {Tele-switch Interval}
End Time {Tele-switch Interval}
7.2.68 Teleswitch Register Rule
Description: A rule defining when a Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime is on. Most Teleswitch Time Pattern Regimes will have a single Teleswitch Register Rule, with a number of Teleswitch Contact Rule details, allowing the coding of rules such as “register 1 is on when contact A is on and contact B is off”.
Defining more than one Teleswitch Register Rule means that the Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime is on when any of the rules is satisfied. This allows the definition of more complex rules such as "register 1 is on when contact D is on, or contact A is on and contact B is off”. A Tele-switch Register Rule Id is a number which distinguishes between the different rules associated with a Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime.
p* Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime Id
p Tele-switch Register Rule Id
7.2.69 Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime
Description: A Time Pattern Regime associated with a teleswitched Standard Settlement Configuration. A Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime can only belong to one Teleswitch Group.
Description: A block of time wholly within one GMT Day.
7.2.71 Time Pattern Regime
Description: A pattern of time representing the periods in a day when a Meter or Settlement Register is recording consumption. Each Time Pattern Regime is either statically controlled by a pre-defined set of Clock Intervals or dynamically controlled through teleswitching.
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
7.2.72 Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class
Description: A Measurement Requirement within a valid Standard Settlement Configuration and Profile Class set. One or more Measurement Requirement in the set may measure switched load i.e. have the Switched Load Indicator set.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p * Time Pattern Regime Id
p * Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
* Standard Settlement Configuration Id1
7.2.73 Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class
Description: A rule defining the valid Standard Settlement Configurations for a Profile Class.
p * Standard Settlement Configuration Id
p Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
o Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
8. Entity/Datastore Cross Reference
The table below gives cross - references from each entity in the Logical Data Model to the data stores and data
The naming conventions for the datastores are:
Dn is for data shared between SSR and DPP
D1/n is for data used only by SSR
D2/n is for data used only by DPP
ID | Data Store | Description | Entities |
D1 | Time Regimes | Standing data defining the Standard Settlement Configurations supported by ISRA. | Average Fraction Of Yearly Consumption, Average Fraction Of Yearly Consumption Set, Clock Interval, Clock Time Pattern Regime, Date Block, Day Of The Week, Measurement Requirement, Season, Standard Settlement Configuration, Teleswitch Contact, Teleswitch Contact Interval, Teleswitch Contact Rule, Teleswitch Group, Teleswitch Interval, Teleswitch Register Rule, Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime, Time Block, Time Pattern Regime, Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime, Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class, Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class |
D1/1 | Trading Day Data | SSR data for each Settlement Day and/or GSP Group. | GSP Group Correction Factor, GSP Group Take, , Settlement, Settlement Period Line Loss Factor, Settlement Period, SSA Settlement GSP Group, Supplier Purchase Matrix |
D1/2 | SSR Standing Data | Standing data required for SSR processing. | Consumption Component Class, Data Aggregator, Data Aggregator In GSP Group, Distributor, GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor, GSP Group, BM for Supplier in GSP Group, Distributor, Line Loss Factor Class, Measurement Quantity, NHH BM Unit Allocation, Settlement Class, Supplier, Supplier In GSP Group |
D1/3 | Supplier HH Demand | Supplier demand broken down by consumption component. | Aggregated Supplier DA Period Consumption, Aggregated Supplier Period Consumption, Profiled SPM, Aggregated BM Unit Period Consumption |
D1/4 | Supplier Purchases | Total Supplier Purchases for each Settlement Period. | Period Supplier Purchase |
D2 | Daily Profiles | Consumption profiles calculated daily for each GSP Group from regression equations. | Basic Period Profile Coefficient, Combined Period Profile Coefficient, Daily Profile Coefficient, Period Profile Class Coefficient, Period Time Pattern State, Profile Production Run In GSP Group |
D2/1 | Daily Parameters | Noon effective temperature, time of sunset, and other daily parameters used for evaluating regression equations in each GSP Group. | Daily Profile Parameters, Day Type, Settlement Day |
D2/3 | Profiles | Profile classes and the associated regression equations. | GSP Group Average EAC, Period Regression Equation, Profile, Profile Class, Profile Regression Equation Set, Profile Set, Regression Coefficient, Regression Coefficient Type |
D3 | Shared Standing Data | Standing data relating to GSP Groups and Clock Changes, which are relevant both to SSR and to Daily Profile Production. | Clock Time Change, Data Collector, Data Collector in GSP Group, GSP Group, ISR Agent Appointment |
D4 | SSR Runs | Data related to controlling runs of the SSR system. | SSA Settlement Run, SSR Run In GSP Group, SSR Run Type, Supplier Data Aggregation, Supplier Data Aggregation Used In SSR Run |
9. Function Descriptions and Events
9.1 Function Descriptions
Description: Allows the removal of data from the system once the Archive Criteria have been met.
9.1.2 Calculate Daily Profiles
Description: This system calculates Profile Coefficients for a given Settlement Day, by evaluating regression equations and carrying out algorithmic profiling and chunking.
Combine Base and Switched Load Profiles
Evaluate Regression Equations
Determine Time Pattern State
9.1.3 Define Average Fractions of Yearly Consumption
Description: This function allows the average fraction of consumption for each Measurement Requirement for a given combination of Standard Settlement Configuration, Profile Class and GSP Group to be defined.
Set of Average Consumption Fractions Deleted
Set of Average Consumption Fractions Entered
Set of Average Consumption Fractions Updated
Specify Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
9.1.4 Define BM Units For Supplier In GSP Group
Description: This function is invoked by an ISRA user to allow details of BM Units For Supplier In GSP Group for a given combination of Supplier and GSP Group to be defined and maintained.
BM Unit for Supplier and GSP Group Deleted
BM Unit for Supplier and GSP Group Entered
BM Unit for Supplier and GSP Group Updated
Description: This function allows the Day Type, Scottish Day Type and any clock change to be specified for each Settlement Day.
Day Type Specified for Settlement Day
9.1.6 Define Data Collectors
Description: This function allows details of Data Collectors and the GSP Groups for which they require daily Profile Coefficient totals to be defined and maintained.
Data Collector Appointed to GSP Group
Data Collector in GSP Group Deleted
Data Collector Details Entered
Data Collector Details Updated
Enter Data Collector Details
9.1.7 Define GSP Correction Scaling Factors
Description: This function allows the GSP Group Correction scaling factor for each consumption component to be maintained.
GSP Correction Scaling Factors Deleted
GSP Correction Scaling Factors Entered
GSP Correction Scaling Factors Updated
Maintain GSP correction scaling factors
Description: This function allows the list of valid GSP Group codes to be maintained and the periods of validity during which they are the responsibility of the ISR Agent.
9.1.9 Define Line Loss Codes
Description: This function allows the list of valid line loss factor codes to be maintained.
Line Loss Factor Codes Deleted
Line Loss Factor Codes Entered
Line Loss Factor Codes Updated
Maintain line loss factor codes
Description: This function allows the details of Profile Classes and their corresponding profiles to be maintained.
9.1.11 Define Settlement Timetable
Description: This function allows details of planned Settlements to be defined.
Maintain Settlement Timetable
9.1.12 Define Standard Settlement Configurations
Description: This function allows details of Standard Settlement Configurations and their corresponding Measurement Requirements to be defined.
Standard Settlement Configuration Deleted
Standard Settlement Configuration Entered
Standard Settlement Configuration Updated
Time Pattern Assigned to Standard Sett Config
Time Pattern Deassigned From Standard Sett Config
Enter Settlement Configurations
Assign Time Patterns to Configurations
Description: This function allows Supplier details to be defined and maintained.
Maintain supplier details
9.1.14 Define Time Patterns
Description: This function allows time patterns and their associated standing data to be defined.
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules Deleted
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules Entered
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules Updated
Time Pattern Regime Deleted
Time Pattern Regime Entered
Time Pattern Regime Updated
Enter Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules
9.1.15 Enter Teleswitch Contact Interval Data
Description: This function allows Teleswitch contact intervals to be defined and maintained. It is a manual backup facility for Load Teleswitch Switching Times.
Teleswitch Switching Times Available
Enter Teleswitch Contact Interval Details
Description: This system calculates the Noon Effective Temperature for a Settlement Day and GSP Group from the Actual Noon Temperature entered by the operator.
Actual Noon Temperature Entered
Calculate Noon Effective Temperature
Description: This function produces an extract file containing daily totals of Profile Coefficients for each valid combination of Profile Class and Measurement Requirement on a Settlement Day.
Extract Data For EAC Calculator
9.1.18 Extract Selected EAC Data
Description: This function allows the ISR Agent to produce an extract file containing daily totals of Profile Coefficients for each valid combination of Profile Class and Measurement Requirement for each Settlement Day in a range of Settlement Days and specified GSP Group.
Extract Data For EAC Calculator
9.1.19 Load Aggregated Half Hour Data
Description: This function validates the aggregated half hourly data from the host PES and loads it into the ISR system.
Aggregated Half Hour Data Available
9.1.20 Load BM Unit Registration Data
Description: This function validates and loads BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group information as prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent, into the ISRA system. The file contains newly created BM Units for Supplier in GSP Group and any updates required to existing BM Units for Supplier in GSP Group. The loading mechanism does not support deletes of BM Units for Supplier in GSP Group which will be done manually.
BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group Loaded
Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
9.1.21 Load GSP Group Take
Description: This process validates the GSP Group take data from the CDCA and loads it into the ISR system.
Validate Settlements Data
9.1.22 Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
Description: This function validates Settlement Day data with associated Day Types and Seasons along with Line Loss Factor Class data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent, and loads it into the ISR system.
Market Domain Data Complete Set loaded
Load Market Domain Data Complete Set
9.1.23 Load Teleswitch Switching Times
Description: This function validates the file of Teleswitch contact intervals prepared by the Teleswitch Agent and loads it into the ISR system.
Teleswitch Switching Times Available
Load Teleswitch Contact Intervals
9.1.24 Load Line Loss Factor Data
Description: This function validates the Line Loss Factors from the distribution business and loads them into the ISR system.
Line Loss Factors Available
Validate Line Loss Factors
9.1.25 Load Pool Market Domain Data
Description: This function validates a file of Standard Settlement Configurations and associated data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent, and loads it into the ISR system.
Pool Market Domain Data Loaded
Load Pool Market Domain Data
9.1.26 Load Regression Equations
Description: This function allows regression equations to be entered for each profile.
Regression Equation Deleted
Regression Equation Entered
Regression Equation Updated
Enter Regression Equations
9.1.27 Load Settlement Timetable
Description: This function validates the Settlement Timetable prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent, and loads it into the ISR system.
Settlement Timetable loaded
Load Settlement Timetable
Description: This function allows a file of sunset times to be loaded into the database.
9.1.29 Load Supplier Purchase Matrix Data
Description: This function validates the Supplier Purchase Matrix from the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator and loads it into the SSR system.
9.1.30 Produce Profile Reports
Description: This function produces reports showing details of the profile calculations.
Produce Supplier & DC Profile Reports
9.1.31 Specify Aggregator for GSP Group
Description: This function allows the list of aggregators from which ISRA expects aggregated data to be maintained. This data is used to validate that all the aggregators have provided data and to validate that a data aggregator is sending the correct type of aggregated data for the correct Supplier.
Aggregator Assigned to GSP Group
Aggregator Assignment Deleted
Specify Aggregator for GSP Group
9.1.32 Specify Distributor for GSP Group
Description: This function allows distributors, and their assignments to GSP Groups, to be maintained. This data is used to validate the incoming line loss data
Distributor Assigned to GSP Group
Distributor Assignment Deleted
Specify Distributor for GSP Group
9.1.33 Specify Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation
Description: This function is invoked by an ISRA user to allow details of Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocations to be maintained.
Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Entered
Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Updated
Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Deleted
9.1.34 Specify Profile Class and SSC Combinations
Description: This function allows the valid combinations of Profile Class and Standard Settlement Configuration to be defined. It also allows the average split of annual consumption over each measurement requirement to be defined.
Standard Sett Config Assigned To Profile Class
Standard Sett Config Deassigned From Profile Class
Assignment to Profile Class Updated
Assign Configurations to Profile Classes
9.1.35 Specify Suppliers Trading in GSP Group
Description: This function allows the list of Suppliers trading in each GSP Group to be maintained. This data is used to validate that data for all Suppliers have been received from the data aggregators prior to performing Settlement calculations.
Supplier Finishes Trading in GSP Group
Supplier Starts Trading in GSP Group
Assign Suppliers to GSP Groups
Description: Performs a full Settlements or Reconciliation run. Validates all the required data is available, profiles the non-half hourly meters and produces a deemed take for each half hour for each Supplier
Calc & Apply GSP Group Correction
Calculate Deemed Supplier Take
Adjust for Non Pool Generation Spill
Apply PSP, TLM and LRM to Deemed Take
9.1.37 Load Disconnection Purchase Matrix Data
Description: This function validates the Disconnection Purchase Matrix from the Non-Half Hourly Data Aggregator and loads it into the SSR system.
9.1.38 Load Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems
Description: This function validates and loads mapping details between Line Loss Factor Class Id and SSC received from the Distributor relating to HH consumption.
Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems Available
Validate Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems
9.1.39 Load Aggregated Half Hour Disconnection Data
Description: This function validates the aggregated half hourly disconnection data from the HH Data Aggregator and loads it into the ISR system.
Aggregated Half Hour Disconnection Data Available
9.1.40 Maintain Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
Description: This function allows the ISR Agent to maintain a list of Data Aggregators from whom data is expected to be received in the event of a Dispute. The information is used to validate that the relevant Data Aggregators have provided data and to validate that a Data Aggregator is sending the correct type of aggregated data (Half Hourly or Non-Half Hourly) for the correct Supplier.
Specify Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
Maintain Final Dispute Expected Aggregation
9.2.1 BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data Report Requested
Description: A BM Unit Supplier Take Energy Volume Data Report is requested by either a user or automatically following the completion of a Settlement Run.
Description: The operator requests an extract of daily Profile Coefficient totals for a particular settlement day, for use in calculating annualised advances and EACs.
Description: The operator of the SSR system requests the production of Supplier reports for a settlement day.
9.2.4 Supplier Profile Reports
Description: The ISR Agent requests production of profiling reports for a Settlement Day.
9.2.5 Standing Data Update Report
Description: The ISR Agent requests a Standing Data Update Report with reference to either an individual Supplier or for all Suppliers, over a specified timeframe of user defined change dates.
9.3 Entity Event Matrix - Supplier Settlement & Reconciliation
Note that the following entities are operational masters which are shown on the data model for purposes of logical completeness, but have no actual processing associated with them, and hence no events: Data Aggregator, Distributor, and Settlement Class.
Note that the following entities are read-only, because no requirement to update them has been identified: Consumption Component Class and SSR Run Type. The matrix shows them as being created by a dummy System Installation event.
9.4 Entity Event Matrix - Daily Profile Production
Note that the following entities are operational masters which are shown on the data model for purposes of logical completeness, but have no actual processing associated with them, and hence no events: Date Block, Day of the Week, and Time Block.
Note that the entity Teleswitch Contact is not updated nor deleted. They are present from inception and are not subsequently changed as any such fundamental change to requirements would significantly change the whole of the definition of requirements defined in this document.
Actual Noon Temperature Entered
The actual noon temperature is entered for a Settlement Day and GSP Group.
Aggregated Half Hour Data Available
The half hourly data aggregator makes a file of data available for a particular GSP Group, supplier and settlement day.
Aggregator Assigned to GSP Group
An aggregator (either half hourly or non-half hourly) is specified for a particular GSP Group and supplier. This event will occur, for example, at the start of trading in April 1998; or when a supplier changes the aggregator appointed for a GSP Group.
Aggregator Assignment Deleted
The link between an aggregator and a GSP Group is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when an assignment is entered in error; or when an assignment is subject to the Archive Criteria.
The decision is taken to archive all the profile production data relating to a settlement day which is subject to the Archive Criteria.
The decision is taken to archive all the Supplier Settlement and Reconciliation data relating to a settlement day which is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Assignment to Profile Class Updated
The data for an existing combination of profile class and standard settlement configuration is updated.
BM Unit for Supplier and GSP Group Deleted
The user selects a Supplier and a GSP Group, and then selects an existing association to a BM Unit to be removed. The instance of BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group is physically deleted along with any dependent occurrences of Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation. Any GSP Group and Supplier combination can be chosen, not just those Suppliers trading in a GSP Group.
BM Unit for Supplier and GSP Group Entered
A BM Unit is entered for a Supplier in a GSP Group.
BM Unit for Supplier and GSP Group Updated
The user selects a Supplier and a GSP Group, and then selects an existing association to a BM Unit to be updated.
BM Unit Registration Data Loaded
A file containing BM Unit Registration Data is loaded.
A clock change is deleted from the system. This may be because it was originally entered in error; or it is subject to the Archive Criteria.
A new clock change is entered onto the system.
The details of a clock change already defined to the system are updated.
One of the clock intervals defined for a time pattern regime is deleted. Typically this event would occur only if a clock interval was wrongly entered by the operator. The normal method of deleting a clock interval would be to delete the entire time pattern regime when it was no longer required.
One of the clock intervals for a time pattern regime is entered onto the system.
Data Collector Appointed to GSP Group
A Data Collector becomes active in a GSP Group, and therefore requires daily profile coefficient totals for that GSP Group.
Data Collector in GSP Group Deleted
A Data Collector ceases to be active in a GSP Group, and therefore no longer requires daily profile coefficient totals for that GSP Group.
A Data Collector is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a Data Collector code is entered in error; or when the Data Collector is no longer active and therefore no longer requires daily profile coefficient totals.
Data Collector Details Entered
Details of a new Data Collector are entered onto the system.
Data Collector Details Updated
Details of an existing Data Collector are updated.
Day Type Specified for Settlement Day
The operator specifies the Day Type and Season Id for a Settlement Day.
A distributor is removed from the system.
A new distributor is entered into the system.
Details of an existing distributor are updated.
Distributor Assigned to a GSP Group
A distributor is assigned to a GSP Group. This event will occur, for example, at the start of trading in April 1998 and when they begin to operate in a new GSP Group.
Distributor Assignment Deleted
The link between a distributor and a GSP Group is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when an assignment is entered in error.
A file of aggregated disconnected annual consumption data becomes available from a non-half hourly aggregator system.
GSP Correction Scaling Factors Deleted
The GSP Correction Scaling factor for a particular component and period of time is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a scaling factor is entered in error; or when the period of time to which the scaling factor applies is subject to the Archive Criteria.
GSP Correction Scaling Factors Entered
A new GSP Correction Scaling Factor is entered on the system. This event will occur when the scaling factor for a consumption component changes.
GSP Correction Scaling Factors Updated
The value of a GSP Correction scaling factor is amended (without the period it covers changing). This event is only likely to occur if the value was originally entered in error.
A GSP Group is deleted from the system. This event may occur if GSP Groups are reorganised; or if a GSP Group is entered in error.
A new GSP Group is entered onto the system. This may occur both at the start of trading, and subsequently if GSP Groups are reorganised.
A file of GSP Group Take data becomes available from the existing settlement system.
Line Loss Factor Codes Deleted
A line loss factor class code is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when the class was entered in error; or when it is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Line Loss Factor Codes Entered
A new line loss factor class is defined to the system.
Line Loss Factor Codes Updated
Details of an existing line loss factor class are amended.
Line Loss Factors Available
The file of line loss factor values for a Distributor becomes available from the relevant Host PES Distribution Business.
Mapping Data for HH Aggregated Metering Systems Available
The mapping information between LLFC and SSC for a Distributor relating to HH consumption becomes available from the relevant Host PES Distribution Business. Market Domain Data Complete Set Loaded
Settlement Day and Line Loss Factor Class details read from the file of published Market Domain Data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent is loaded into the ISR system.
Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Entered
A Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation is entered.
Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Updated
A Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation is updated.
Non Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation Deleted
A Non-Half Hourly BM Unit Allocation is deleted.
Pool Market Domain Data Loaded
A file of Standard Settlement Configurations and associated data prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent is loaded into the ISR system.
A profile class is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a profile class is entered in error; or when the profile class is subject to the Archive Criteria.
A new profile class is entered onto the system.
Details of an existing profile class are updated.
A profile is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a profile is entered in error; or when the profile is subject to the Archive Criteria.
A new profile is entered onto the system.
Details of an existing profile are updated.
The ISR Agent requests that profiles are calculated for a given Settlement Day.
Regression Equation Deleted
A regression equation is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when the regression equation is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Regression Equation Entered
A file of regression equation data is loaded onto the system.
Regression Equation Updated
A file of regression equation data is reloaded, overwriting the original data.
Set of Average Consumption Fractions Deleted
A set of Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption values are removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when the data was entered in error; or when it is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Set of Average Consumption Fractions Entered
A set of Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption values are entered onto the system for a combination of Standard Settlement Configuration, Profile Class, and GSP Group.
Set of Average Consumption Fractions Updated
A set of Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption values are entered onto the system for a combination of Standard Settlement Configuration, Profile Class, and GSP Group.
Details of a planned Settlement are removed from the system.
A planned Settlement is defined on the system.
Settlement Timetable Loaded
Details of the overall Settlement Timetable and the Settlement Codes, Planned SSR Run Dates and Payment Dates for each Settlement Date prepared by the Market Domain Data Agent is loaded into the ISR system.
Details of a planned Settlement are updated.
A file of aggregated annual consumption data becomes available from a non-half hourly aggregator system.
The operator of the SSR system requests that an SSR Run be carried out for a particular settlement day and selected GSP Groups.
Standard Sett Config Assigned To Profile Class
A particular combination of standard settlement configuration and profile class is specified as valid.
Standard Sett Config Deassigned From Profile Class
A particular combination of standard settlement configuration and profile class, which had previously been specified as valid, is removed from the system. This may be because it was originally marked as valid in error; or because it is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Standard Settlement Configuration Deleted
A standard settlement configuration is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a standard settlement configuration is entered in error; or when the standard settlement configuration is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Standard Settlement Configuration Entered
A new standard settlement configuration is entered onto the system.
Standard Settlement Configuration Updated
Details of an existing standard settlement configuration are updated.
A file of sunset times for a GSP Group are loaded into the system.
A supplier is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a supplier code is entered in error; or when the supplier is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Details of a new supplier are entered onto the system.
Details of an existing supplier are updated.
Supplier Finishes Trading in GSP Group
A supplier indicates that it is no longer trading in a particular GSP Group (and will therefore not be submitting aggregated data).
Supplier Starts Trading in GSP Group
A supplier indicates that it has started trading in a particular GSP Group (and will therefore be submitting aggregated data).
Dummy event, representing the setting up of each instance of the system to include fixed data such as SSR Run Types.
Teleswitch Contact Interval Deleted
A Teleswitch contact interval is removed from the system.
Teleswitch Contact Interval Entered
Details of a new Teleswitch contact interval are entered onto the system.
Teleswitch Contact Interval Updated
Details of an existing Teleswitch contact interval are updated.
Teleswitch Switching Times Available
A file of Teleswitch contact intervals (Teleswitch switching times) prepared by the Teleswitch Agent is loaded into the ISR system.
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules Deleted
A Teleswitch register rule and its associated Teleswitch contact rule(s) are removed from the system.
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules Entered
Details of a new Teleswitch register rule and its associated Teleswitch contact rule(s) are entered onto the system.
Teleswitch Register and Contact Rules Updated
Details of an existing Teleswitch register rule and its associated Teleswitch contact rule(s) are updated.
Time Pattern Assigned to Standard Sett Config
A time pattern is assigned to a standard settlement configuration. This event will typically occur as part of the process of defining a new standard settlement configuration.
Time Pattern Deassigned From Standard Sett Config
A time pattern is deassigned from a standard settlement configuration, thus deleting a measurement requirement from the system. This event will typically occur only if an error is made while defining a standard settlement configuration. Measurement Requirements will normally be deleted by deleting the associated standard settlement configuration when it is no longer required.
Time Pattern Regime Deleted
A time pattern regime is removed from the system. This event will occur, for example, when a time pattern regime is entered in error; or when the time pattern regime is subject to the Archive Criteria.
Time Pattern Regime Entered
A new time pattern regime is entered onto the system.
Time Pattern Regime Updated
Details of an existing time pattern regime are updated.
1. The User Catalogue defines all on-line Users of the required system and the tasks associated with them.
Job Title | Job Activities Description |
ISR Agent | Administrator of ISRA system for specified GSP Groups. The activities of this job cover all aspects of the operation of these GSP Groups. This includes the following: maintaining standing data for the system monitoring and support of the operation of the system monitoring the support of the operation of the interfaces system monitoring for performance and capacity checking the collection of data for a run checking the electronic collection of daily data entering manually collected data initiating Settlement runs initiating Reconciliation runs initiating reporting runs managing audit, security and control |
1. The User Roles define, at the highest level, the different roles performed, the jobs performed and the job descriptions.
User Role | Job Title | Activities |
ISRA Operator | ISR Agent | checking the collection of data for a run checking the electronic collection of daily data entering manually collected data initiating Settlement runs initiating Reconciliation runs initiating reporting runs |
ISRA System Manager | ISR Agent | system monitoring for performance and capacity managing audit, security and control managing backup, recovery and archive |
ISRA Operations Supervisor | ISR Agent | maintaining standing data for the system monitoring and support of the operation of the system monitoring the support of the operation of the interfaces |
The User Role Function Matrix will be available after the Logical Design stage.
10.3 Organisational Roles
1. The New Electricity Trading Arrangements identify a number of ‘roles’ which may be undertaken by different organisations. These are not users of the ISRA system, but they are related to ISRA in that they are external entities and as such sources or recipients of data from ISRA.
1998 Role | Organisation | NETA Functions |
ISR Agent | ISR Agent(s) | |
Non-HH Data Collector | Host PES (to 31/3/2000) Data Collectors | Data Collection Data Processing EAC Calculation Meter Advance Derivation |
Non-HH Data Aggregator | Host PES (to 31/3/2000) Data Aggregators | |
HH Data aggregator | Data Aggregators | |
Settlement Administration Agent (SAA) | IMServ | |
Central Data Collection Agent | IMServ | Administration of the Central Data Collection System |
Profile Administrator | Electricity Association Services Ltd (EASL) | |
PRS Agent | PRS Agent(s) | |
Supplier | Host REC Energy Supplier Non-Host Energy Supplier | |
Transmission Use of System Administrator (TUoS) | NETSO | |
ISRA Auditor | Pool Auditor | |
Market Domain Data Agent | ISR Agent | |
Electricity Pool Administrator (Pool) | Chief Executive’s Office | |
Teleswitch Agent | Electricity Association Services Ltd (EASL) | |
Central Registration Agent | IMserv | |
Distributor | Distribution Business | |
APPENDIX A: Definition of Terms
This section is now in the 1998 Programme Glossary of Terms, reference 10.
APPENDIX B: Data Catalogue
This section contains a brief description of each data item or attribute used within the Data Flow Model and the Logical Data Model. The full definition of each data item will be available after the Logical Design stage.
Bi-state indicator defining, for a non-half hourly metered Consumption Component Class, whether the profiled consumption is based on an Annualised Advance or an Estimated Annual Consumption.
The arithmetic average of noon temperature as measured at representative weather stations within the GSP Group area.
Actual/Estimated Indicator
Bi-state indicator showing whether a Consumption Component Class pertains to actual or estimated half hourly meter data.
Aggregated Supplier Consumption
The sum of the Supplier Consumption for a GSP Group prior to GSP Group Correction. Values are unsigned.
Aggregated BM Unit Energy
The total consumption for a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group within a Consumption Component Class within a Settlement Period before GSP Group Correction is applied.
Aggregated BM Unit Line Losses
The total line and transformer loss incurred transferring energy between the GSPs and customers for a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group within a Consumption Component Class within a Settlement Period before GSP Group Correction is applied
Aggregated Supplier Line Loss
The total line and transformer loss incurred transferring energy between the GSPs and customers for a Supplier within a GSP Group. Values are unsigned.
Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption
The estimated fraction of consumption for metering systems in the Profile Class and Standard Settlement Configuration which belongs to the particular Measurement Requirement.
Blanket NHH Aggregation Indicator
An indicator showing whether all active NHH Data Aggregators should be included in a Final Dispute Expected Aggregation.
The basic unit of trade for Balancing Mechanism action. A BM Unit is the smallest number of Meter Points for which metered data is available to the Settlement Administration Agent.
The unique set number generated for a CDCA settlement run within a Settlement Day. This data item replaces data item ‘SSA Settlement Run Number’ for Settlement Days from the start of the NETA. For backwards compatibility, the attributes and logical format of the SSA Settlement Run Number are retained for this data item.
The Settlement Date for which a CDCA settlement run is performed. This data item replaces data item ‘SSA Settlement Date’ for Settlement Days from the start of the NETA. For backwards compatibility, the attributes and logical format of the SSA Settlement Date are retained for this data item.
The CDCA Extract Number used as a basis of the Settlement Run. This data item replaces data item ‘CDCS Extract Number’ for Settlement Days from the start of the NETA. For backwards compatibility, the attributes and logical format of the CDCS Extract Number are retained for this data item.
The date on which clocks go forward or back to cater for daylight saving time.
Consumption Component Class Id
The unique identifier for a Consumption Component Class.
Consumption Component Indicator
A tri-state data item which shows whether a Consumption Component Class can be categorised by:
a) Metering System Specific Line Loss,
b) Class Specific Line Loss,
For a half hour period, the amount of energy attributed to a BM Unit for Supplier In GSP Group within a Consumption Component Class after GSP Group Correction has been applied.
Corrected Supplier Consumption
For a half hour period, the amount of energy attributed to a Supplier, within a Consumption Component Class, after GSP Group Correction has been applied.
Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
For a half hour period, the deemed line loss which has been attributed a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group within a Consumption Component Class.
Corrected Supplier Line Loss
For a half hour period, the deemed line loss which has been attributed to a Supplier, within a Consumption Component Class.
Daily Corrected BM Unit Energy
A derived item for the daily Corrected BM Unit Energy for a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group within a Consumption Component Class for a Settlement Day. It is derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a day) Corrected BM Unit Energy.
Daily Corrected BM Unit Line Losses
A derived item for the daily Corrected BM Unit Line Losses for BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group within a Consumption Component Class for a Settlement Day. It is derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a day) Corrected BM Unit Line Losses.
Daily Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
A derived item for the daily corrected supplier Deemed Take for a Supplier in a GSP Group, for a Settlement Day. It is derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a Settlement Day) Period Corrected Supplier Deemed Take.
Daily Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
A derived item for the daily uncorrected BM Unit total allocated volume for a BM Unit for a Settlement Day. It is derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a day) Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume.
Daily Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
A derived item for the daily non-corrected supplier Deemed Take for a Supplier in a GSP Group, for a Settlement Day. It is derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a Settlement Day) Period Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take.
Daily Profile Coefficient
The daily totalled coefficient after the following adjustment has been made: Daily adjustment (different for each GSP Group) according to daily profile variables from the Authorised Temperature Provider i.e. Noon Effective Temperature, Time of Sunset and Type of Day (Sunday, Bank Holiday, etc.)
Daily Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance
A derived data item created by summing the “Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance” for a Settlement Class over all Settlement Periods.
Daily Profiled SPM Total EAC
A derived data item created by summing all “Profiled SPM Total EAC” and “Profiled SPM Total Unmetered Consumption” for a Settlement Class over all Settlement Periods.
Daily Supplier Deemed Take
A derived item for the daily supplier Deemed Take for a Supplier in a GSP Group, for a Settlement Day. It is derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a Settlement Day) Period Supplier Deemed Take.
Daily Supplier Purchase Total
A derived item for the daily total purchases by a Supplier in a GSP Group, for a Settlement Day, derived from:
Sum (over all Settlement Periods in a Day) Period Supplier Purchase Total.
Data Aggregation Run Number
The unique number allocated to a data aggregation run by a Data Aggregator.
An indicator of what type of aggregation a particular Data Aggregator is performing - half hourly or non-half hourly.
Data Aggregator HH MSID Count
The count of half hourly metering systems by Consumption Component Class and Supplier. The count is supplied by the Data Aggregator with which those Metering Systems are registered.
The unique national identifier for a Data Aggregator company.
The unique national identifier for a Data Collection company.
The name of a Data Collection company.
Date and Time Sent {Aggregation Run}
The date and time at which a Data Aggregator company sends Data Aggregation Run data to the ISRA system.
Date (Midnight to Midnight UTC)
A calendar date, covering 24 hours from midnight to midnight in UTC.
The identifier for a day of the week.
System identifier for the type of settlement day, e. g.:
A bi-state data item indicating whether the energy flow is import or export. Energy consumption is (Active) Import or Non-Pooled Generation is (Active) Export.
The unique national identifier of a Distributor.
Name to expand data item Distributor Id
Effective From Date {DCIGG}
The inclusive calendar date from which a Data Collector begins operating in a GSP Group.
Effective From Settlement Date {FDEDA}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Data Aggregator is expected to submit data in relation to a Dispute Final Run.
Effective From Date {IAA}
The inclusive calendar date from which ISR Agent Appointment begins for a GSP Group.
Effective From Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which an Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Set becomes effective.
Effective From Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a BM Unit for a Supplier and GSP Group combination becomes effective.
Effective From Settlement Date {DAIGG}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Data Aggregator begins operating in a GSP Group.
Effective From Settlement Date {GGD}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Distributor begins operating for a GSP Group.
Effective From Settlement Date {LLFC}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Line Loss Factor Class becomes effective.
Effective From Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class is allocated to a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group.
Effective From Settlement Date {PSET}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Profile Regression Equation Set becomes effective.
Effective From Settlement Date {PROF}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Profile becomes effective.
Effective From Settlement Date {SIGG}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Supplier begins trading in a GSP Group.
Effective From Settlement Date {VSCPC}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Valid Settlement Configuration and Profile Class combination becomes effective.
The time at which a particular Teleswitch contact is instructed to change state, within all teleswitched metering systems in a particular Teleswitch Group
Effective To Date {DCIGG}
The inclusive calendar date after which a Data Collector ceases to operate in a GSP Group.
Effective To Settlement Date {FDEDA}
The inclusive Settlement Date from which a Data Aggregator is no longer expected to submit data in relation to a Dispute Final Run.
The inclusive calendar date at which ISR Agent Appointment begins for a GSP Group.
Effective To Settlement Date {AFOYCS}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which an Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption Set ceases to be valid.
Effective To Settlement Date {BMUIGG}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a BM Unit ceases to operate for a Supplier and GSP Group combination.
Effective To Settlement Date {DAIGG}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a Data Aggregator ceases to operate in a GSP Group.
Effective To Settlement Date {GGD}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a Distributor ceases to operate for a GSP Group.
Effective To Settlement Date {LLFC}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a Line Loss Factor Class ceases to be valid.
Effective To Settlement Date {NHHBMUA}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a Valid Settlement Configuration Profile Class is no longer allocated to a BM Unit for Supplier in GSP Group.
Effective To Settlement Date {PROF}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a Profile ceases to be valid.
Effective To Settlement Date {SIGG}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a Supplier ceases to operate in a GSP Group.
Effective To Settlement Date {VSCPC}
The inclusive Settlement Date after which a valid combination of Settlement Configuration and Profile Class ceases to be used.
End Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
The date and time of day on which a Tele-switch Contact Interval ends.
The day of the month, expressed numerically, on which the end of an ‘on’ clock interval (by ISR definition) falls.
The month in which an ‘on’ clock interval (defined by ISR) ends.
A time at which time-switched metering system registers associated with a Time Pattern Regime are instructed to switch OFF.
End Time {Tele-switch Interval}
A time at which teleswitched metering system registers associated with a Time Pattern Regime are instructed to switch OFF.
An indicator showing whether a Time Pattern Regime records switching times in GMT or clock (local) time. Values are: Y - times recorded in GMT; N- times recorded in local time.
The time according to Greenwich Mean Time.
Group Average Annual Consumption
The estimated average annual consumption for metering systems in a Profile Class for a GSP Group.
GSP Group Correction Factor
The factored weighting that is applied to selected Consumption Component Classes to ensure that GSP Group Deemed Take is the same as the Group Take measured at GSP level.
GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor
A factor (S) which can be applied to the GSP Group Correction Factor to define to what degree the GSP Group Correction Factor will be applied to a particular Consumption Component Class:
S=0 - GSP Group Correction Factor not applied;
S=1 - GSP Group Correction Factor applied;
0<=S<=1 - GSP Group Correction Factor partially applied;
S>1 - GSP Group Correction Factor over-applied.
The unique national identifier for a particular GSP Group.
Name to expand data item GSP Group Id.
The energy consumption for the GSP Group measured at the Grid Point level by meter.
The multiplicative factor applied to a customer's consumption to convert it into its estimated original consumption at the GSP level i.e. before transformer and line losses.
Line Loss Factor Class Id
The identifier for a class of Line Loss which applies to a group of metering systems.
Low Register Profile Coefficient
A profile coefficient which, when multiplied by an estimate of annual consumption, produces an estimate of consumption for the low register of a metering system.
Market Participant Role Code
The code which identifies the role which a Market Participant performs in the market.
The unique identifier for a quantity which may be measured (e.g. consumption or generation).
Metered/Unmetered Indicator
Bi-state indicator showing whether the Consumption Component is for a metered supply or unmetered supply.
Metering System Specific Line Loss Factor Class Id
An indicator to show whether a Line Loss Factor Class is a general class or metering system specific.
MRPC Supplier Profiled AA
A derived item created by summing over all Settlement Periods in a day, over all Suppliers in a GSP Group, the Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance for all Suppliers for a Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class.
MRPC Supplier Profiled EAC
A derived item created by summing over all Settlement Periods in a day, over all Suppliers in a GSP Group, the Profiled SPM Total EAC for all Suppliers for a Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class.
MRPC Supplier Profiled Unmetered Consumption
A derived item created by summing over all Settlement Periods in a day, over all Suppliers in a GSP Group, the Profiled SPM Total Unmetered Consumption for all Suppliers for a Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class.
The count of metering systems for each Consumption Component Class (CCC) for each Supplier in a GSP Group by Settlement Period. This count aggregates the other MSID counts.
Noon Effective Temperature
This is the weighted average of the actual noon (clock time) temperatures for the settlement day and the previous two settlement days.
Normal Register Profile Coefficient
A profile coefficient which, when multiplied by an estimate of annual consumption, produces an estimate of consumption for the normal register of a metering system.
The date on which payment must be made for Suppliers’ energy purchases.
Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
A derived item detailing total energy allocated to a BM Unit for a half hour period of a Settlement Day. Derived by:
summing Corrected BM Unit Energy and Line Losses across Consumption Component Classes for a BM Unit.
Period Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
A derived item for the deemed take, attributable to supplies which are subject to group correction, by a Supplier in a GSP Group, for a half hour period of a Settlement Day. The figure is derived by subtracting the Period Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take from the Period Supplier Deemed Take. For this subtraction, external data formats are used to ensure that the relation Period Corrected Supplier Deemed Take + Period Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take = Period Supplier Deemed Take holds exactly.
Period Non-Corrected Supplier Deemed Take
A derived item for the deemed take, attributable to supplies which are not subject to group correction, by a Supplier in a GSP Group, for a half hour period of a Settlement Day. Derived by:
Sum Aggregated Supplier Consumption and Line Loss across Consumption Component Classes which are not subject to Group Correction.
Period Profile Coefficient Value
A profile coefficient which, when multiplied by an estimate of annual consumption, produces an estimate of consumption for a metering system register.
Period Register On State Indicator
An indicator showing whether metering system registers associated with a Time Pattern Regime are to be treated as ON or OFF in a Settlement Period.
Period Supplier Deemed Take
The deemed take at GSP level for a Supplier during a half hour period.
Period Supplier Purchase Total
The financial liability (money owed) by a Supplier for energy used within a half hour period.
The date on which an SSR system run is scheduled for a particular Settlement Day and GSP Group.
An identifier which uniquely references a member of the Electricity Pool of England and Wales.
The local clock time after a clock change.
Profile Class Description
A description of the Profile Class for a given Profile Class Id.
The unique identifier for the Profile Class which holds the profile to be applied to a non-half hourly metered set of supplies belonging to that class.
A description of the profile in use.
A unique identifier for a profile within a Profile Class.
Profile Production Run Number
A unique identifier for a particular Profile Production Run.
Profile Settlement Periods
The number of Settlement Periods that a profile covers.
A derived data item created by summing “Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance”, “Profiled SPM Total EAC” and “Profiled SPM Total Unmetered Consumption” for a Settlement Class and Settlement Period.
Profiled SPM Total Annualised Advance
The profiled Annualised Advance in a Settlement Period for a Supplier in a GSP Group by Settlement Class and Settlement.
The profiled Estimated Annual Consumption in a Settlement Period for a Supplier in a GSP Group by Settlement Class and Settlement.
Profiled SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
The profiled unmetered consumption in a Settlement Period for a Supplier in a GSP Group by Settlement Class and Settlement.
A coefficient or variable which specifies how consumption for a Profile varies, and is substituted into a Regression Equation.
Regression Coefficient Type
The valid types of Regression Coefficient. The initial set are:
Time of Sunset (Time of Sunset)2 Noon Effective Temperature Day of Week 1 Day of Week 2 Day of Week 3 Day of Week 4 Constant
System identifier for the type of Settlement Day applicable to Scotland only.
The unique identifier given to a specified Season.
A code which, together with the Settlement Date, identifies a Settlement published in the Pool's Settlement Timetable. It identifies the type of Settlement. Initial values may be Final Initial Settlement, First Reconciliation, Second Reconciliation, Third Reconciliation, Final Reconciliation, Dispute, Final Dispute.
Settlement Code Description
The description of a Settlement Code, for example “Final Initial Settlement”.
The date on which energy is deemed to be used and must be later settled for. Also known as the Trading Day.
The identifier - unique for a particular day - for a half hour trading period. A number between 1 and 50.
The end time of a Settlement Period e.g. 00:30, 14:00. Where there is a backward Clock Change, the same Settlement Period will occur twice in one Settlement Day. The second occurrence of the Settlement Period end time is denoted with the suffix ‘a’ e.g. 01:30a.
SPM Default EAC MSID Count
The number of default EACs that had to be used in the calculation of a Supplier Purchase Matrix's SPM Total EAC.
SPM Default Unmetered MSID Count
The number of default EACs that had to be used in the calculation of a Supplier Purchase Matrix's SPM Total Unmetered Consumption.
The count of non-half hourly metering systems whose consumption is based on an Annualised Advance and which are not de-energised with zero Annualised Advance for all Settlement Registers. It is for a given Supplier and Settlement Class within a GSP Group for a Settlement Run. The count is supplied by the Data Aggregator with which those Metering Systems are registered.
SPM Total Annualised Advance
The sum of Annualised Advances for a cell of the Supplier Purchase Matrix.
SPM Total Annualised Advance Report Value
The sum of Annualised Advances for a cell of the Supplier Purchase Matrix.
A derived data item created by summing the “SPM Total EAC” and “SPM Total Unmetered Consumption” for a Settlement Class.
The sum of Estimated Annual Consumptions for a cell of the Supplier Purchase Matrix.
The count of non-half hourly metering systems whose consumption is based on an Estimated Annual Consumption. It is for a given Supplier and Settlement Class within a GSP Group for a Settlement Run. The count is supplied by the Data Aggregator with which those Metering Systems are registered.
SPM Total Unmetered Consumption
The sum of the estimated annual unmetered consumption for a cell of the Supplier Purchase Matrix.
SPM Total Unmetered MSID Count
The count of non-half hourly Unmetered Systems. It is for a given Supplier and Settlement Class within a GSP Group for a Settlement Run. The count is supplied by the Data Aggregator with which those systems are registered.
The date on which an SSR system run is done for a particular Settlement Day and GSP Group.
The unique identifier which the system creates for a SSR run.
The type of run to which an SSR run belongs. Proposed types will be the same as for Settlement Code.
Standard Settlement Configuration Desc
Description of a logical non-half hourly metering configuration supported by the settlement process.
Standard Settlement Configuration Id
A unique identifier for a logical non-half hourly metering configuration supported by the settlement process.
Standard Settlement Configuration Type
Identifies whether the Standard Settlement Configuration should be used for Import or Export Metering Systems.
Start Date and Time {Tele-switch Contact Interval}
The date and time of day on which a Tele-switch Contact Interval starts.
The inclusive day of the month, expressed numerically, on which an ‘on’ clock interval (by ISR definition) commences.
The month in which an ‘on’ clock interval (defined by ISR) commences.
Start of Day Tele-switch On Indicator
Identifies whether a particular Teleswitch contact is closed (on) or open (off) at 00:00 UTC on a particular day, within all teleswitched metering systems in a particular Teleswitch Group. Valid values are as for data item Tele-switch Contact State.
A time at which time-switched metering system registers associated with a Time Pattern Regime are instructed to switch ON.
Start Time {Tele-switch Interval}
A time at which teleswitched metering system registers associated with a Time Pattern Regime are instructed to switch ON.
The number of minutes that the sun sets after 1800 hours GMT (negative if before). This data item is derived from “Time of Sunset”.
The unique national identifier for a Supplier of electricity.
The name of an electricity supplier.
A bi-state indicator which indicates whether metering system registers associated with the Measurement Requirement are used for switching loads.
Switched Load Profile Class Ind
Indicates whether or not the Profile Class can be used for metering systems with switched load.
One of the logical contacts within each tele-switched meter, as supported by the existing tele-switch telecommunications infrastructure. Existing values are A,B,C or D.
Indicates whether a particular rule, identified by a Tele-switch Register Rule Id, is satisfied depending on the state of a particular tele-switch contact. Valid values are:
i) ‘0’ meaning the Tele-switch Register Rule Id is satisfied if the contact is off;
ii) ‘1’ meaning the Tele-switch Register Rule Id is satisfied if the contact is on.
An identifier for one of the groups of Teleswitches controlled by a Teleswitch user.
Identifies whether a particular Teleswitch contact is closed (on) or open (off) immediately after switching state, within all teleswitched metering systems in a particular Tele-switch Group. Valid values are as for data item Tele-switch Contact State.
Tele-switch Register Rule Id
A number which distinguishes between the different rules associated with a Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime. The rules identify the switching relationships between tele-switch contacts and Settlement registers. The numbering of the rules defining the behaviour of each Time Pattern Regime is arbitrary, and decided at the time when the Market Domain Data is approved.
A dummy value to be used in the Standard Settlement Configuration Report. This is required for consistency with an earlier version of the report where there was an extra field defined. This takes a constant value of ‘A’.
Tele-switch Time Pattern Regime Id
The identifier for the teleswitched time pattern regime being used to calculate money owed for energy used by each customer.
The identifier for a user (an electricity supplier) of the Teleswitch control unit.
Tele-switch/Clock Indicator
An indicator showing whether a Time Pattern Regime is controlled by a Teleswitch or a timeswitch (clock).
The time of sunset for a GSP Group.
The identifier for the time pattern regime being used to calculate money owed for energy used by each customer.
The date and time associated with a GSP Group.
Transmission Loss Multiplier
The multiplication factor which converts MWh into energy actually supplied by the generating company(ies).
Transmission Losses Reconciliation Multiplier
For a Settlement Period in a Transmission Service Day, the scaling factor used in the determination of Transmission Services Reconciliation Demand.
Unadjusted Supplier Deemed Take
The deemed take at GSP level for a Supplier during a half hour period before any adjustments have been made during Non Pooled Generation spill processing.
Uncorrected Period BM Unit Total Allocated Volume
A derived item detailing total energy allocated to a BM Unit before group correction is applied for a half hour period of a Settlement Day. Derived by:
for a BM Unit, summing Aggregated BM Unit Energy and Line Losses across Consumption Component Classes
APPENDIX C: Logical Data Structure Notation
APPENDIX D: Data Flow Diagram Notation
APPENDIX E: Example of Profiling
The following example is intended to show how the processes of chunking and algorithmic profiling, as specified in the Elementary Process Descriptions in section 6, would work for a hypothetical tariff.
Consider a hypothetical domestic tariff, of the Economy 7 type, as follows:
low register is time-switched on between 00:30-06:30 and 14:30-16:30 in every Settlement Day. A single normal register is on for the remainder of the day;
on average, 60% of consumption is Switched Load and 40% is Base Load.
In order to support this tariff, data would be set up in ISR as follows:
a Standard Settlement Configuration would be created for the tariff, and would be specified as being valid only for the Domestic Economy 7 Profile Class. Two Time Pattern Regimes would be created: one for the low register, with two Clock Intervals, and one for the normal register, with three Clock Intervals.
Load Research would provide regression equations for the Base and Switched Load components. (They could provide Switched Load equations for a variety of durations, but only the 16 Settlement Period one is relevant to this tariff).
The Average Fraction of Yearly Consumption for the low and normal registers would be specified, based on historical consumption data. In order to simplify the calculations, we will suppose (unrealistically) that Base Load consumption for this Profile Class is the same in all Settlement Periods. This implies that:
AFYClow = .6 + .4 * (16/48) = .733
AFYCnormal = .4 * (32/48) = .267
E.3 Daily Calculation of Profiles
The Daily Profile Production process would calculate Profile Coefficients each Settlement Day as follows:
Settlement Periods | Period Register On State Indicator for Low Register | Period Register On State Indicator for Normal Register |
1 00:00 - 00:30 | 0 | 1 |
2-13 00:30 - 06:30 | 1 | 0 |
14-29 06:30 - 14:30 | 0 | 1 |
30-33 14:30 - 16:30 | 1 | 0 |
34-48 16:30 - 00:00 | 0 | 1 |
Base Fraction = 1.5 * 0.267 = 0.4
Switched Fraction = .733 - 0.5 * 0.267 = 0.6
Of course, in our made-up example we already knew the fractions of Base and Switched Load. However, the calculation illustrates the use of Hpt to convert from low and normal registers to Base and Switched Load.
Low and Normal Register profile coefficients are then produced by combining the Base and Switched Load profiles.
• Process 2.3.4 would split the low and normal register profiles into low and normal register chunks, renormalising the area of each chunk by dividing by AFYC.
APPENDIX F: Basis for Capacity Requirement Estimates
This appendix contains the detailed assumptions upon which the mandatory and desirable capacity requirements specified in section 5 were based.
The following table shows, for each entity in the Logical Data model:
the number of occurrences expected initially
the maximum expected volume of occurrences
the event, time unit, or entity on which the occurrences are based
the source of the estimate
the basis for the estimate.
It is not proposed to update this table beyond Issue 1.1 of the URS.
Entity | Initial Volumes | Maximum Volumes | Per | Source | Basis / Reason | Actual/ Est |
Aggregated Supplier DA Period Consumption | 18,096 | 960 million | SSR Run | URS Team | 1 per Supplier/DA combination, per Settlement Period, per Consumption Component Class, for HH CCCs (Initially 13 & max 25) | E |
Aggregated Supplier Period Consumption | 8,352 | 240,000 | SSR Run | URS Team | 1 per Supplier, per Settlement Period, per Consumption Component Class, for non HH CCCs (min 6 max 25) | E |
Basic Period Profile Coefficients | 432 | 19,200 | Profile Production Run | URS Team | 1 per Period per Profile | E |
Clock Intervals | 2,140 | 8,000 | at any one time | URS Team | no of Measurement requirements * 2 (average no of Clock Intervals per Time Pattern Regime) | E |
Clock Time Change | 2 | 2 | annum | | current summer time changes | A |
Combined Period Profile Coefficients | 16,896 | 96,000 | Profile Production Run | URS Team | Initial = 1 per Period per Valid Settlement Config Profile Class, for Switched load (economy 7 Profile Classes only) Max = 1 per period for 50% Valid SCPC | E |
Consumption Component Class | 19 | 50 | at any one time | URS team | initial set up 19 CCCs | A |
Daily Profile Coefficients | 2,142 | 16,000 | Profile Production Run | URS team | = No of Period PC Coefficients/ no of periods in a day | E |
Daily Profile Parameters | 1 | 1 | Profile Production Run | URS team | | E |
Data Aggregators (HH) | 29 | 2,000 | GSP Group | Expert Group | Assume all DAs operate in all GSP Groups Initial = 1 per Supplier Max = 10 per Supplier | E |
Data Aggregators (Non HH) | 1 | 2,000 | GSP Group | Expert Group | Assume all DAs operate in all GSP Groups Initial = Current PESs Max = 10 Per Supplier | E |
Data Aggregator Registration | 58 | 4,000 | GSP Group | Expert Group | Initial = 2 for each Supplier Max = 20 for each Supplier | E |
Data Collectors (Non HH) | 1 | 2,000 | GSP Group | URS Team | Assume all DAs operate in all GSP Groups Initial = Current PESs Max = 10 per Supplier | E |
Day Types (Clock Intervals) | 7 | 20 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = days of the week Max may include special days (e.g. Xmas) | E |
Day Types (Regression equations) | 7 | 20 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = days of the week Max may include special days (e.g. Xmas) | E |
Distributor | 1 | 5 | GSP Group | OF | | A |
GSP Group | 12 | 20 | Nationally | URS Team | Initially will be up to 12 | E |
GSP Group Correction Factor | 48 | 48 | SSR Run | URS Team | 1 per period | E |
GSP Group Corr Scaling Factor | 29 | 75 | at any one time | URS Team | 1.5 per Consumption Component Class | E |
GSP Group Distributor | 12 | 40 | nationally | URS Team | Initial 1 per GSP Group, max 2 per GSP Group | E |
GSP Group Take | 48 | 48 | SSA Settlement Run | URS Team | 1 per period | A |
Line Loss Factor Class | 2 | 50 | Distributor | Expert Group URS Team | Initial = 2 currently identified (HV & LV) | E |
Line Loss Factors | 96 | 2,400 | Settlement Day | URS team | 1 per Line Loss Class per Settlement Period | E |
Measurement Quantity | 4 | 10 | at any time | URS Team | Active Import, Active Export Reactive Import Reactive Export | A |
Measurement Requirement | 1,070 | 4,000 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = see attached sheet Max = 4* Initial | E |
Measurement Requirement per Standard Settlement Configuration | avge: 2.2 max: 7 | 21 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial Average = Standard Settlement Configuration/ Measurement Requirements; Initial Max = current max Max capacity= Initial max * 3 | E |
Period Profile Class Coefficients | 102,816 | 768,000 | Profile Production Run | URS Team | 1 per period per Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class | E |
Period Regression Equation | 15,120 | 3.9 million | at any one time | URS Team | 1 per period (48) per Regression equation set | E |
Period Supplier Purchase | 1,392 | 9,600 | SSR Run | URS Team | 1 per Supplier per Settlement Period | E |
Period Time Pattern State | 51,360 | 192,000 | Settlement Day | URS Team | 1 per Settlement Period per Time Pattern Regime | E |
Profile | 9 | 20 | Initial: nationally Max: by Profile Class | URS Team | Initial = 1 Profile Class has 2 Profiles, others have 1; Max = Each Profile Class has 20 Profiles | E |
Profile Classes | 8 | 20 | Initial: Nationally Max: by GSP Group | Expert Group | Initial = 8 used nationally Max = Different Profile Classes in different GSP Groups | E |
Profile Production Run | 2 | 10 | Settlement day | URS Team | | |
Profile Regression Equation Set | 315 | 80,000 | at any one time | Load Research | 1 per Profile per Day Type per Season | E |
| 48 | 48 | SSR reconciliation run | URS Team | 1 per period per SSR reconciliation run | |
Seasons (Clock Intervals) | 5 | 100 | at any one time | URS Team | Max could vary by PES | E |
Seasons (Regression Equations) | 5 | 10 | at any one time | URS Team | Max could introduce high/low seasons | E |
Settlement Class | 4,284 | 800,000 | at any one time | URS team | Valid Meas Reqt Profile Class * LLF Class | E |
Settlement Day | Avge: 365 Max: 366 | Avge: 365 Max: 366 | annum | URS team | | A |
Settlement Period | 48 | 48 | settlement day | URS team | 1 per half hour; 46 on a short day; 50 on a long day; 48 otherwise (ave) | A |
Settlement Period Line Loss Factor Class | 96 | 2,400 | settlement day | URS team | 1 per Line Loss Factor Class per Settlement Period | E |
Settlement | 6 | 10 | Settlement day | Expert Group | | E |
SSA Settlement Runs | 2 | 10 | Settlement day | Pool | | E |
SSR Run Type | 6 | 10 | at any time | Expert Group | Initial Settlement, Final Settlement, reconciliations 1 to 3 Final reconciliation | A |
SSR Run | 6 | 10 | Settlement day | Expert Group | See Requirements Catalogue entry | E |
Standard Settlement Configuration | 482 | 2,500 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = data supplied by RECs to the BRG Max = 5* Initial | E |
Supplier | 29 | 200 | at any one time | Expert Group | | E |
Supplier Data Aggregation | 58 | 4,000 | SSR Run | URS Team | Initial: 2 per Supplier (1 HH and 1 Non-HH) Max: 20 per Supplier | E |
Supplier In GSP Group | 29 | 400 | GSP Group | Expert Group | Assuming all Suppliers trade in all GSP Groups Initial = 1 per Supplier (per GSP Group) Max = 2 per Supplier (per GSP Group) | E |
Supplier Purchase Matrix | 6,426 | 1.2 million | SSR Run | URS team | In theory: 1 per Supplier non HH Data Agg run and Settlement Class. However, in practice each Supplier will probably have his own set of tariffs (Valid MRPC) so 1.5 Suppliers per Settlement Class is more reasonable. | E |
Teleswitch Contact | 4 | 4 | at any one time | EASL | | A |
Teleswitch Contact Interval | 3840 | 131,072 | UTC day | URS team EASL | Initial = 320 Teleswitch Groups * 4 Contacts * 3 Contact States Max = 4096 Teleswitch Groups * 4 Contacts * 8 Contact States | E |
Teleswitch Contact Rule | 1140 | 163,840 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = Data supplied by PESs to the Pool Max = 40,960 Teleswitch Register Rules * 4 Contacts | E |
Teleswitch Group | 320 | 4096 | at any one time | URS Team EASL | Initial = 20 Groups * 16 Users Max = 256 Groups * 16 Users | E |
Teleswitch Interval | 960 | 32,768 | Settlement day | URS Team | Derived from Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime, i.e. Initial = 1.5 * 640 Max = 4 * 8192 | E |
Teleswitch Register Rule | 640 | 40,960 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = Data supplied by PESs to the Pool Max = 8192 Teleswitch Time Pattern Regimes * 5 | E |
Teleswitch Time Pattern Regime | 640 | 8,192 | at any one time | EASL | Initial = 20 Groups * 16 Users * 2 switches Max = 256 Groups * 16 Users * 2 switches | E |
Time Pattern Regime | 1,070 | 4,000 | at any one time | URS Team | Worst case is all Measurement Requirements are based on different Time Pattern Regimes | E |
Valid Measurement Requirement Profile Class | 2,142 | 16,000 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = data supplied by RECs to the BRG Max = 8* Initial | E |
Valid Standard Settlement Configuration Profile Class | 820 | 4,000 | at any one time | URS Team | Initial = data supplied by RECs to the BRG Max = 5* Initial | E |
APPENDIX G: SVA METERING SYSTEM REGISTER
Supplier Volume Allocation Agent (SVAA) User Requirements Specification SVA Metering System Register
Synopsis: The SVAA is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the SVA Metering System Register (SVA MSR). The SVA is a register of SVA Metering System Numbers and the Secondary and / or Additional BM Unit to which they have been allocated for purposes of providing BM or RR Services and the SVA Metering System Numbers provided by the NETSO in relation to the provision of Applicable Balancing Services to the NETSO outside of the BM (i.e. where there is no related BM Unit).
The SVA MSR is a SVAA administered reference data register that supports the operation of the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC). The SVA MSR is critical to the successful operation of the BSC, as it records and maintains a register of SVA Metering System Numbers and, where applicable, the related Secondary or Additional BM Unit. This register is used as reference data when aggregating metered volumes for Secondary BM Units and calculating Supplier adjustments for actions taken by Secondary BM Units. The principal business processes involved may be summarised as:
The capture of data regarding new MSID Pair Allocations;
The capture of data regarding amendments to existing MSID Pair Allocations;
The procurement and capture of MSID Standing Data: and
In relation to Disputed MSID Pair Allocations by provide functionality to facilitate resolution between Parties.
The purpose of this document is to provide a complete specification of the set of business requirements which the SVA MSR must satisfy for all of its various user types. These range from the BSCCo to the BSC Parties themselves. Similar documents will be produced to define the requirements for the other services. A convention has therefore been used for uniquely identifying the requirements in each document, so as to ensure that the fulfilment of each requirement can be unambiguously traced through the subsequent functional specification, design and implementation. This document does not, however, attempt to describe the integration of those services, which would be inappropriate for this SVA MSR User Requirement Specification (URS).
The requirements which have been identified have been divided into four categories:
Functional requirements - those requirements relating to a specific business activity, usually requiring some degree of automated support;
Interface requirements - the detailed requirements for the exchange of data between the SVA MSR, the other BSC services shown above, and the external participants (and covered in more detail in the Interface Definition and Design (IDD) documents);
Non-functional requirements - those requirements relating to such activities as security (both physical and user access related), audit, and system housekeeping (systems backups and archiving etc.). It is anticipated that the majority of these will be common with all of the BSCCo services to be provided;
Service requirements - the underlying service delivery requirements of the SVA MSR service, including such as issues as performance, volumetrics and number of Reconciliations to be carried out.
These requirements are catalogued in sections 5 to 8 respectively.
This document is the User Requirements Specification (URS) for the SVA MSR within the Balancing and Settlement Code Services. It complements the set of documents detailing the requirements of the seven BSC central system services. The aforementioned document set comprises:
BMRA URS;
CRA URS;
SAA URS;
ECVAA URS;
CDCA URS;
FAA URS;
SVAA URS;
The objective of this document is to provide a complete specification of the requirements that the SVA MSR must meet, from the users’ point of view. For this purpose, the “users” include BSCCo Ltd, BSC Trading Party participants, the NETSO, other BSC Parties and the SVA MSR Service Provider’s own operators.
This User Requirements Specification forms the input to the System Specification for the SVA MSR. The System Specification constitutes the definition of the computer system requirements to be built in support of the SVA MSR Services.
3. Scope of Specification
This document provides a specification of the requirements for the SVA MSR that supports the operation of the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC). The requirements are described from the point of view of the SVA MSR system users.
The document is divided into the following sections.
Section 4, Business and System Overview – describes the business context of the Service;
Section 5, Functional Requirements – describes the functional requirements of the Service from the point of view of the Service users;
Section 6, Interface Requirements – describes the interfaces with the external users of the Service;
Section 7, Non-Functional Requirements – describes the non-functional requirements of the Service, such as auditing, security and resilience;
Section 8, Service Requirements – describes the service delivery requirements of the Service, such as performance and volumetrics;
Section 9, User Roles and Activities – describes the roles supporting day to day operation of the Service and external users of the Service, such as BSC Parties and BSCCo Ltd.
4. Business and System Overview
This section provides an overview of the SVA MSR business requirements and is for indicative purposes only. The definitive statement of requirements is given in the following chapters.
4.1 Summary of Business Requirements
The SVA MSR will receive inbound MSID Pair data, provided by Virtual Lead Parties (VLP), Suppliers and the NETSO, and will perform validation of such prior to processing. This operation will be performed in accordance BSC Section S, BSCP508 and BSCP602. The SVA MSR will also share the recorded reference data to allow for:
i) the aggregation of metered volumes for Secondary BM Units and calculating Supplier adjustments for actions taken by Secondary BM Units ;and
ii) The calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD
for each Settlement Day for each Settlement Run
The information the SVA MSR system will record and maintain will include:
The processes that will allow the SVA MSR to record and maintain the requisite data will include:
Settlement Run Provisions
The following diagram illustrates the context of the SVA MSR within the wider market of the Balancing and Settlement Code. This is a simplified view for clarity; section 6 describes the interfaces from the SVA MSR to other parties in detail.
BSCCo | The Balancing and Settlement Code Company |
CRA | Central Registration Agent |
ECOES | Electricity Central Online Enquiry System |
SVAA | Supplier Volume Allocation Agent |
NETSO | National Electricity Transmission System Operator |
Requirement ID. | User Requirement |
Functional | |
SVA_BSR-F001 | Provision of MSID Pair Allocation data |
SVA_BSR-F002 | Processing of MSID Pair Allocation data |
SVA_BSR-F003 | Validation of MSID Pair Allocation data (1) |
SVA_BSR-F004 | Loss of MSID Pair Notification |
SVA_BSR-F005 | Retrospective MSID Pair Allocation |
SVA_BSR-F006 | Procurement of MSID Standing Data |
SVA_BSR-F007 | Validation of MSID Pair Allocation data (2) |
SVA_BSR-F008 | Disputed MSID Pair Allocation |
SVA_BSR-F009 | Settlement Run Activity |
SVA_BSR-F010 | Performance Assurance Reporting |
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Non Functional | |
SVA_BSR-N001 | Input Interface Requirements |
4.4 Numbering Schedule for Requirements Definitions
As described in section 2, the set of baseline requirement documents includes a User Requirements Specification for each of the services of the central BSC systems. Within these documents each requirement across the set of services is uniquely identified to provide traceability of each individual requirement from URS to System Specification (functional specification) and then to Design Specification (technical specification).
In keeping with industry good practise, this URS adopts a requirements numbering system that works as follows:
1. Each requirement is associated with either an individual service, or as common to all services supported by the central systems. (TAA is typically excluded from the latter.) If a requirement applies to more than one service, but not all (e.g. two out of six), then the requirement is restated for each, i.e. there would be two separately numbered requirements (which happen to be the same) in this example.
Each requirement is prefaced by one of the following codes, as a clear indicator as to which service generates the business need:
CRA (Central Registration Agent);
SAA (Settlement Administration Agent);
CDCA (Central Data Collection Agent);
ECVAA (Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent)
BMRA (Balancing Mechanism Reporting Agent);
SVA BSR (SVA Metering System Balancing Service Register)
TAA (Technical Assurance Agent);
FAA (Funds Administration Agent);
GEN (General)
2. Requirements are categorised into the following headings:
Functional (F), a specific business requirement of the service.
Interface (I), a requirement for data exchange between services or to external parties.
Non-functional (N), which includes auditing, security, resilience etc. The majority of these will probably be associated with the General (GEN) service.
Service (S),
3. Within a service, each requirement has unique number in the range 001 to 999. Numbers are not unique across services. Leading zeroes are always included.
Combining 1, 2 and 3 thus gives the following format for numbering each requirement (including a separator character):
[Service]-[Category][Number]
CRA-F001
BMRA-S022
GEN-N112
SAA-I033
4.5 Attributes of Individual Requirements
For each identified requirement, the following items of information are represented in a tabular format:
Requirement ID: a unique identifier for the requirement, as described above.
Status: while the majority of SVA BSR requirements will be mandatory for the Go Live date, others may not necessarily be. This field indicates whether the requirement is Mandatory (M) or Optional (O) in this context.
Title: a short descriptive title for the requirement.
BSC reference: a cross reference to the BSC documentation which is the original source of the business need. In most cases this will include a reference to the relevant Service Description and where appropriate, any Modifications that have affected a particular requirement.
Man/auto: this field provides an indication as to whether a given requirement is likely to be satisfied by a manual, as opposed to automated, mechanism.
Frequency: an indication of how often a business event will take place. Minimum, maximum and average frequencies, and any timing or scheduling requirements, are also identified here, as appropriate.
Volumes: data volumes associated with the requirement are identified here; this may include an estimate of the initial volume, and subsequent growth rates.
The requirement is then described in detail, with any associated specific non-functional and interface requirements separately identified. Any outstanding issues relating to the requirement definition are also identified.
5. Functional Requirements
This section describes the detailed set of business requirements for the SVA MSR. To ensure traceability through to other deliverable documents such as the System Specification and Design Specification, each requirement is uniquely numbered, based on the convention described in section 4.
5.1 Provision of MSID Pair Allocation Data
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F001 | Status: M | Title: 5.1 Provision of MSID Pair Allocation data | BSC reference: Section S 10.2 BSCP602 2.1 |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
The following data will be provided to the SVA MSR by Suppliers, and VLP in order to enable SVAA aggregation of metered volumes for Secondary BM Units and for calculation of Supplier adjustments for actions taken by Secondary BM Units for each Settlement Run: Each Supplier / VLP will provide for each MSID Pair: in relation to an MSID Pair, the GSP Group in which the Import Metering System and (where applicable) Export Metering System are located; Import Metering System MSID; Export Metering System MSID (where applicable); Effective From Settlement Date Effective To Settlement Date Import Metering System MSID Customer Consent Flag and associated: Export Metering System MSID Customer Consent Flag and associated: These data, with the exception of the relevant BM Unit, will also be provided to the SVA MSR by the NETSO, for calculation of Supplier adjustments for non BM Applicable Balancing Services provided to the NETSO. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0278 – MSID Pair Allocation |
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5.2 Validation of MSID Pair Allocation data (1)
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F002 | Status: | Title: 5.2 VALIDATION OF MSID PAIR ALLOCATION DATA (1) | BSC reference: BSCP602 2.1 |
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Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
Within 1 Working Day of receiving a MSID Pair Allocation the SVA MSR shall undertake, as a minimum, the following validation: Validate Stage 1 – Schema Validation The SVAA will validate the MSID Pair Allocation data from Suppliers / VLPs / the NETSO. The incoming data will be validated to ensure: Validate Stage 2 – Business Logic Validation The SVA MSR will validate the MSID Pair Allocation in accordance with the requirements in Section S. The MSID Pair Allocation will be validated to ensure that: If the MSID Pair Allocation is valid then the SVA MSR shall send a notification to the Party of such. If the MSID Pair Allocation is invalid then the SVA MSR shall send a notification to the Party of such. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0279 – Confirmation of MSID Pair Allocation P0280 – Rejection of MSID Pair Allocation |
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5.3 Loss of MSID Pair Notification
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F003 | Status: M | Title: 5.3 LOSS OF MSID PAIR NOTIFICATION | BSC reference: BSCP602 2.1 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
Where the MSID Pair is already allocated to a BM Unit that offers Balancing Services, the SVA MSR shall, subject to validation, confirm the most recent allocation and notify the previous registrant of: the SVA Metering System Number of each Half Hourly Metering System that is no longer allocated to a BM Unit; the GSP Group in which such Metering System is located; the date from when such SVA Metering System(s) will no longer be allocated to their BM Unit for the purposes of providing Balancing Services in Settlement. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0281 – Loss of MSID Pair Allocation |
Issues: |
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5.4 Retrospective MSID Pair Allocation
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F004 | Status: M | Title: 5.4 RETROSPECTIVE MSID PAIR ALLOCATION | BSC reference: Section S 10.2 BSCP602 2.1 |
Man/auto: M | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
SVA MSR shall provide functionality to allow a Supplier, VLP or the NETSO to retrospectively correct a MSID Pair Allocation error, and that where correction of the identified error ensures that the future accuracy of Settlement. The SVA MSR shall facilitate such amendments for Settlement Days prior to having undergone the R1 Settlement Run. The exception to this rule is the MSID Pair Effective To Settlement Date (ETSD) which can be amended to an earlier Settlement Date at any time. To clarify only existing MSID Pair Allocations qualify for a Retrospective MSID Pair Allocation Error. The SVA BSR shall allow, where the Settlement Date has yet to have undergone the R1 Settlement Run, Lead Parties to: The SVA MSR shall have robust controls to ensure that all retrospective MSID Pair Allocations are validated to ensure that the accuracy of Settlement is maintained. |
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5.5 Procurement of MSID Standing Data
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F005 | Status: M | Title: 5.5 PROCUREMENT OF MSID STANDING DATA | BSC reference: Section S 11.2 BSCP507 Annex S-2 |
Man/auto: Manual | Frequency: Once per WD | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
When the SVA MSR validates and confirms a MSID Pair Allocation it shall: "MSID Standing Data" means, in relation to a Metering System: The SVA MSR shall procure the MSID Standing Data by either making a manual enquiry on the ECOES system, or other source agreed by the Panel for both the Import Metering System and (where applicable) the Export Metering System. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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5.6 Validation of MSID Pair Allocation Data (2)
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F006 | Status: M | Title: 5.6 VALIDATION OF MSID PAIR ALLOCATION DATA (2) | BSC reference: BSCP602 2.1 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
Validate Stage 3 – SMRS Data Validation The SVA MSR will further validate MSID Pair Notifications to be allocated to Secondary BM Units2 against MSID Standing Data procured from the relevant SMRS. MSID Pair data will be validated to ensure that: |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0279 – Confirmation of MSID Pair Allocation P0280 – Rejection of MSID Pair Allocation |
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5.7 Disputed MSID Pair Allocation
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F007 | Status: M | Title: 5.7 DISPUTED MSID PAIR ALLOCATION | BSC reference: BSCP 602 2.3 |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
Where a Lead Party has received a Loss of MSID Pair Allocation notification or a Rejection of MSID Pair Delivered Volume notification, and after discussion with the customer they believe it to be an erroneous notification, they may initiate the Disputed Allocation Procedure via the SVA MSR. A Lead Party may initiate the Disputed MSID Pair Allocation Resolution Process by sending the dispute to the Current Lead Party. The Current Lead Party shall use reasonable endeavours to respond to the Initial Request within 5 Working Days of receipt of the dispute. Once the initial request has been made one of the following options shall be taken: Where Lead Parties are in agreement: Where Lead Parties are not in agreement: Current Lead Party shall respond to the initiating Lead Party indicating the Current Lead Party disagrees with the initiating Lead Party The initiating Lead Party can restart process should they remain in the belief that the rejection is erroneous |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0286– Disputed MSID Pair Allocation |
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5.8 Settlement Run Activity
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F008 | Status: M | Title: 5.8 SETTLEMENT RUN ACTIVITY | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
SVA MSR shall make the allocation data contained with the register available to the SVAA for each Settlement Run for each Settlement day. |
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5.9 Performance Assurance Reporting
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-F009 | Status: M | Title: 5.9 PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE REPORTING | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
SVA MSR shall be able to provide upon request detailed Performance Assurance Reporting which as a minimum shall include: |
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6. Interface Requirements
The SVA MSR shall provide an interface to the following external parties.
Suppliers
Virtual Lead Parties
7. Non-Functional Requirements
This section specifies the specific non-functional requirements of the SVA BSR. Common non-functional requirements are described in CRA URS - Appendix D
Requirement ID: SVA_BSR-N001 | Status: M | Title: 7.1 INPUT INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: All business transactions | Volumes: |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
The SVA BSR system shall provide manual input mechanisms for the insertion of data into the system from external parties where stated. The SVA BSR service shall provide a mechanism for the decoding of electronically transferred data so that an operator may enter the details contained in the files. The SVA BSR service shall provide functionality for a user to select an electronic data notification from a list of outstanding input messages and display the contents in a human readable form. Data items shall be listed alongside a label describing individual fields in the input data flow. The SVA BSR system shall allow an Operator to ‘cut and paste’ the information in these messages. The SVA BSR service shall carry out validation of all data input so as to ensure that the data is, as far as is practicable, complete and consistent. Where data is to be input manually, the service shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the quality of the data is not compromised in any way. The exact mechanism to ensure this is conducted will be developed in detail within the System and Detailed Design Specification. Should data, once entered, pass input validation but require further confirmation, the Operator shall then be presented with the ability to save the valid parts of the allocation (subject to database constraints) in a “Pending” state rather than having to abort the entire update. While in this state, the data will be “invisible” to other parts of the BSC Central Systems. For instance it will not be issued to other Services (SAA). At a later time, the Operator shall be able to retrieve the partial update and complete when the original failure has been corrected. When overriding validation and / or business logic, it may be necessary that the level of authority for the override operation be increased from an Operator. A Supervisor may, in some cases, be required to action a specific Warning type. These roles shall be described in more detail in the SVA BSR System Specification. All registration entries / amendments will be tagged with the date and time of the operation as well as the identifier (username) of the Operator who entered the details. In addition, where a validation Warning is expressly overridden, the Operator / Supervisor’s identification will also be logged. Each allocation operation may require a specific level of authorisation within the requesting Party. The SVA BSR stores these levels of authorisation and shall validate that the requesting person has the authorisation to conduct the requested operation. Where this check fails the SVA BSR shall reject the entire request. The SVA BSR system shall only accept allocation amendments from the Party that sent in the original registration request. The SVA BSR Service shall undertake Interface Tests for all Parties wishing access to allocations within the SVA BSR. The interface tests will cover the following services (as appropriate to the applicant): Where Validation errors occur within the system as either a result of individual data entry or through subsequent validation checks the system shall allow the failures to be viewed and searched for by an Operator in accordance with the following: The system shall present each validation warning / failure to the Operator through an online screen on demand for subsequent rectification through View / Maintain functionality. The SVA BSR system shall allow an Operator to search through the highlighted information by failure type, BSC Party and effective to / from dates to limit the amount of information presented at any one time. |
There are no specific service requirements for the SVA BSR. All common service requirements including indicative volumetrics and performance criteria are described in CRA URS - Appendix.
9. User Roles and Activities
The following table describes the user roles which will support the day to day operation of the SVA BSR.
Role | Activities |
System Administrator | Database management Specific aspects of system configuration User account and security management |
Supervisor | Management of operators Management of standing data updates Management of planned operational activities to meet service level requirements Creation of management information reports Support for communication with external parties |
Operator | Performance of procedures to monitor receipt and processing of information from external parties. Performance of procedures to initiate and monitor operational processes and reports. Second level support for ad hoc queries raised by external parties |
Help Desk Operator | First level support for ad hoc queries raised by external parties. Note that the Help Desk facility shall be shared by more than one service provision. |
Auditor | There shall be a specific user security configuration which allows an external auditor to review data within the system, but prevents the initiation of batch processes or logical edits to business data |
These roles and activities will be refined and developed in more detail during detailed business process definition.
APPENDIX H: SVA AGGREGATION SERVICE
SVAA User Requirements Specification for the SVA Aggregation Service
Synopsis: The SVAA is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the SVA Aggregation Service (SVA AS). The SVA AS will receive Half-Hourly Metering System Metered Data from Half Hourly Data Aggregators (HHDAs) and MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notifications from Virtual Lead Parties (VLPs) for SVA Metering System Numbers associated with Secondary BM Units and from the NETSO for SVA Metering System Numbers associated with the provision of Applicable Balancing Services to the NETSO. The SVA AS will then use this data and the SVA Metering System Register Balancing Services Register (SVA BSR) reference data to calculate:
The SVA AS is a SVAA-administered aggregation service that supports the operation of the BSC. The SVA AS is critical to the successful operation of the BSC, as it processes Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data received from HHDAs and MSID Pair Delivered Volume notifications received from VLPs for SVA Metering System Numbers associated with Secondary BM Units in accordance with the daily Activations Reports received from the SAA, in order to facilitate settlement of BM Acceptances and RR Activations. The principal business processes may be summarised as follows;
The capture of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data;
The capture of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notifications;
The capture of the Daily Activations Report;
The calculation of Half-Hourly Metering System Delivered Volumes and MSID ABSVD;
The adjustment of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data to account for Line Losses and GSP Group Correction Factor;
The adjustment of Half-Hourly Metering System Delivered Volumes data to account for Line Losses and GSP Group Correction Factor;
The aggregation of Line Loss and GSP Group Correction Factor adjusted Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data to create Secondary BM Unit Demand Volumes;
The aggregation of Line Losses and GSP Group Correction Factor adjusted Half-Hourly Metering System Delivered Volumes data to create Secondary BM Unit Consumption Volumes;
The aggregation of Line Losses and GSP Group Correction Factor adjusted MSID ABSVD to create Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD;
The reporting of Secondary BM Unit Demand Volumes Secondary BM Unit Delivered Volumes and Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD to SAA;
The reporting of Secondary Half-Hourly Delivered Volumes to Suppliers; and
The reporting of Secondary Half-Hourly Consumption Volumes to Virtual Lead Parties.
The purpose of this document is to provide a complete specification of the set of business requirements that the SVA AS must satisfy for all of its various user types. These range from the BSCCo to the BSC Parties themselves. These requirements have been divided into four categories:
Functional requirements - those requirements relating to a specific business activity, usually requiring some degree of automated support;
Interface requirements - the detailed requirements for the exchange of data between the SVA AS, the other BSC services shown above, and the external participants (and covered in more detail in the Interface Definition and Design (IDD) documents);
Non-functional requirements - those requirements relating to such activities as security (both physical and user access related), audit, and system housekeeping (systems backups and archiving etc.). It is anticipated that the majority of these will be common with all of the BSCCo services to be provided;
Service requirements - the underlying service delivery requirements of the SVA AS service, including such as issues as performance, volumetric and number of Reconciliations to be carried out.
These requirements are catalogued in sections 5 to 8 respectively.
This Appendix H is sets out the User Requirement for the SVA AS, as provided by the SVAA BSC Agent. is one of a set of documents forming the baseline for requirements of the seven BSC central system services. The aforementioned document set comprises:
BMRA URS;
CRA URS;
SAA URS;
ECVAA URS;
CDCA URS;
FAA URS;
SVAA URS;
The objective of this Appendix H is to provide a complete specification of the requirements that the SVA AS must meet, from the users’ point of view. For this purpose, the “users” include BSCCo Ltd, BSC Trading Party participants, other BSC Parties and the SVA AS Provider’s own operators.
This User Requirement Specification forms the input to the System Specification for the SVA AS. The System Specification constitutes the definition of the computer system requirements to be built in support of the SVA AS.
3. Scope of Specification
This Appendix H provides a specification of the requirements for the SVA AS that supports the implementation of the Balancing and Settlement Code. The requirements are described from the point of view of the SVA AS users.
The document is divided into the following sections.
Section 4, Business and System Overview – describes the business context of the Service;
Section 5, Functional Requirements – describes the functional requirements of the Service from the point of view of the Service users;
Section 6, Interface Requirements – describes the interfaces with the external users of the Service;
Section 7, Non-Functional Requirements – describes the non-functional requirements of the Service, such as auditing, security and resilience;
Section 8, Service Requirements – describes the service delivery requirements of the Service, such as performance and volumetric;
Section 9, User Roles and Activities – describes the roles supporting day to day operation of the Service and external users of the Service, such as BSC Parties and BSCCo Ltd.
4. Business and System Overview
This section provides an overview of the SVA AS user requirements and is for indicative purposes only. The definitive statement of user requirements is given in the subsequent sections
4.1 Summary of Business Requirements
The SVA AS shall receive the inbound data, provided by BSC Parties, Party Agents and other BSC Services, and perform calculations based on the most recent validated data. This operation shall be performed in accordance with the Settlement Timetable. The SVA AS will also produce reports for distribution to the Virtual Lead Parties, Suppliers and the SAA service.
4.2 SVA Aggregation Service Context Diagram
The following diagram illustrates the boundaries between the SVA AS and other BSC Parties and systems.
4.3 Calculations Overview of the SVA Aggregation Service
4.3.1 The following diagram illustrates a high-level overview of the SVA AS TERRE calculations.
4.3.2 The following diagram illustrates a high-level overview of the SVA AS ABSVD calculations.
4.4 High Level Business Processes
The high level business processes are illustrated below:
The following table summarises the functional requirements of the
SVAA Aggregation Service (SVA AS). These are further described in detail in
Section 5 – Functional Requirement, including the source reference for each requirement.
Requirement ID. | Type | User Requirement |
SVA_AS_F001 | Functional | Capture of Reference Data |
SVA_AS_F002 | Functional | Establish Metering System Reporting |
SVA_AS_F003 | Functional | Capture of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data |
SVA_AS_F004 | Functional | Capture of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data |
SVA_AS_F005 | Functional | Validation of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data |
SVA_AS_F006 | Functional | Validation of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data |
SVA_AS_F007 | Functional | Capture or Defaulting of Missing Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Data |
SVA_AS_F008 | Functional | Capture or Defaulting of Missing MSID Pair Delivered Volume data |
SVA_AS_F009 | Functional | MSID Pair Delivered Volume Apportionment |
SVA_AS_F010 | Functional | Calculation of Half-Hourly Metered Line Losses |
SVA_AS_F011 | Functional | Calculation of Secondary BMU Demand Volumes |
SVA_AS_F012 | Functional | Exception Handling for MSID Pair Delivered Volume Apportionment |
SVA_AS_F013 | Functional | Calculation of Secondary BMU Supplier Delivered Line Losses |
SVA_AS_F014 | Functional | Calculation of Secondary BMU Delivered volumes |
SVA_AS_F015 | Functional | Report Secondary Half Hourly Consumption Volumes |
SVA_AS_F016 | Functional | Report Secondary BM Unit Demand Volume |
SVA_AS_F017 | Functional | Report Secondary Half Hourly Unit Delivered Volumes |
SVA_AS_F018 | Functional | Report Secondary Half Hourly Unit Supplier Delivered Volume |
SVA_AS_N001 | Non-Functional | Reliability Non-Functional Requirement |
SVA_AS_N002 | Non-Functional | Availability Non-Functional Requirement |
SVA_AS_N003 | Non-Functional | Auditability Non-Functional Requirement |
SVA_AS_N004 | Non-Functional | Assurance Non-Functional Requirement |
SVA_AS_N005 | Non-Functional | Archiving Non-Functional Requirement |
4.6 Attributes of Individual Requirements
For each identified requirement, the following items of information are represented in a tabular format:
Requirement ID: a unique identifier for the requirement, as described above.
Status: while the majority of SVA AS requirements will be mandatory for the Go Live date, others may not necessarily be. This field indicates whether the requirement is Mandatory (M) or Optional (O) in this context.
Title: a short descriptive title for the requirement.
BSC reference: a cross reference to the BSC documentation which is the original source of the business need. In most cases this will include a reference to the relevant Service Description and where appropriate, any Modifications that have affected a particular requirement.
Man/auto: this field provides an indication as to whether a given requirement is likely to be satisfied by a manual, as opposed to automated, mechanism.
Frequency: an indication of how often a business event will take place. Minimum, maximum and average frequencies, and any timing or scheduling requirements, are also identified here, as appropriate.
Volumes: data volumes associated with the requirement are identified here; this may include an estimate of the initial volume, and subsequent growth rates.
The requirement is then described in detail, with any associated specific non-functional and interface requirements separately identified. Any outstanding issues relating to the requirement definition are also identified.
5. Functional Requirements
This section describes the detailed set of functional requirements for the SVA AS. To ensure traceability through to other deliverable documents such as the System Specification and Design Specification, each requirement is uniquely numbered, based on the convention described in section 4.
5.1 Capture of Reference Data
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F001 | Status: M | Title: Capture of Reference Data | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
SVAA shall be required to capture the following reference data: D0269 “Market Domain Data” – this is an existing file type created by the MDD Agent and is received by SVAA on a monthly basis. The Data items required are as follows: D0268 “Data Aggregation and Settlement Timetable” – this is an existing file type created by the Legacy MDD Agent and extracted by SVAA on a yearly basis. The information required for each settlement period and settlement run are as follows: D0265 “Line Loss Factor Data”– this is an existing file type submitted by Distributors to BSCCo, which collates the annual data for each Distributor and publishes it on the ELEXON Portal; the SVAA operator obtains and manually loads the Line Loss Factor data on an annual basis (note that there may be occasional within-year updates to Line Loss Factor data for some Distributors). L0054 “GSP Group Correction Factor Data”- this is an existing file type created by the SVAA for each settlement date and settlement run during the Volume Allocation Run (VAR) calculation and sent by SVAA on daily basis. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
D0269 - Market Domain Data D0268 - Data Aggregation and Settlement Timetable D0265 - Line Loss Factor Data L0054 - GSP Group Correction Factor Data |
Issues: |
5.2 Establish Metering System Reporting
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F002 | Status: M | Title: Establish Metering System Reporting | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
The SVA AS shall identify the correct Half Hourly Data Aggregator (HHDA) for the provision of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Volume data for each SVA Metering System Number as follows Upon a SVA Metering System Number being associated as belonging to a MSID Pair included in a Secondary BM Unit in the SVAR, SVA AS shall notify the relevant HHDA as identified in the ECOES (Electricity Central Online Enquiry Service © MRASCo) database by sending a D0354 “Metering System Reporting Notification”. SVA AS shall receive from the HHDA either: D0355 “Metering System Reporting Confirmation” if that HHDA will be responsible for that SVA Metering System on the Effective From Date specified in the D0354; otherwise D0356 “Metering System Reporting Rejection” notification. The SVA AS operator shall resolve instances when a Metering System reporting Rejection has been received from the appointed HHDA within the allowed timeframe. If there are any changes relating to the HHDA for a SVA Metering System Number in the SVA MSR, the SVA AS will issue a new D0354 to the relevant HHDA. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
D0354 - Metering System Reporting Notification D0355 - Metering System Reporting Confirmation D0356 - Metering System Reporting Rejection |
Issues: |
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5.3 Capture of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Volume data
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F003 | Status: M | Title: Capture of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Volume data | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
SVA AS shall receive Metering System Half Hourly Metered Volumes from the HHDAs established in accordance with SVA_AS_F002 for SVA Metering System Numbers in Secondary BM Units to Settlement in accordance with BSCP503. As part of each SVA Run, SVA AS shall receive “on a daily basis” a data file containing the Metering System Half Hourly Metred Data for each SVA Metering System Number from each HHDA. The Data items required for each relevant SVA Metering System Number are as follows: The 13-digit MSID (analogous to MPAN Core under the Master Registration Agreement) Supplier Id Primary BM Unit Id GSP Group Id Consumption Component Class Id Period Metering System Metered Data (in kWh) Distributor Id Line Loss Factor Class Id Settlement Date Settlement Run |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
D0385 – Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data |
Issues: |
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5.4 Capture of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F004 | Status: M | Title: Capture of MSID Pair Delivered Volume data | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
SVA AS shall receive from the Lead Party of a Secondary BM Unit to which a BM Acceptance or an RR Activation was issued (by no later than the day after the date of the BM Acceptance or RR Activation) the MSID Pair Delivered Volume (MPDV) identifying the delivered MWh volumes for each SVA MSID Pair associated with the Secondary BM Unit that was instructed to deliver RR Activation. SVA AS shall receive from the NETSO (by no later than the forty-fifth calendar day after the date of the provision of a Non BM Applicable Balancing Service) the ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume (MPDV) identifying the delivered MWh volumes for each SVA MSID Pair used to provide the Non BM Applicable Balancing Service. The SVAA shall process such ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume data in the first Settlement Run following receipt, and shall not use default data if no data has been received. SVA AS may receive from time to time from the Lead Party of a Secondary BM Unit to which a BM Acceptance or an RR Activation was issued, or from the NETSO an updated data file [prior to subsequent Settlement Run] identifying more accurate delivered MWh volumes for each SVA Metering System that was instructed to deliver RR Activation. The Data items required for each MSID Pair delivered volumes are as follows: The 13-digit MSID (analogous to MPAN Core under the Master Registration Agreement) of the Import Metering System The 13-digit MSID (analogous to MPAN Core under the Master Registration Agreement) of the associated Export Metering System (where applicable) Settlement Date Settlement Period Delivered volume (in MWh, where a positive value represents an increase in output and a negative volume represents a decrease in output) |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0282 – MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notification P0292 – ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notification |
Issues: |
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5.5 Validation of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Volume Data
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F005 | Status: M | Title: Validation of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Volume data | BSC reference: BSCP602 2.1 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
The SVA AS shall undertake validation on receipt of Metering System Half Hourly Metered data. The SVA AS shall undertake, as a minimum: Validation Stage 1 – Technical Validation: The SVA AS will validate the input Metering System Half Hourly Metered data file from each HHDA to ensure: Validation Stage 2 – Business Logic Validation: The SVA AS will validate the Half Hourly Metered data in accordance with the requirements in BSC Section S. The Half Hourly Metered Volume data will be validated to ensure that: One file is generated for each HHDA who is responsible for one or more MSIDs whose association with a secondary BM Unit has changed. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
D0385 – Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data |
Issues: |
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5.6 Validation of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data and ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F006 | Status: M | Title: Validation of MSID Pair Delivered Volume data and ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume data | BSC reference: BSCP602 2.1 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
The SVA AS shall undertake validation on receipt of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data and MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data. The SVA AS shall undertake, as a minimum: Validation Stage 1 – Schema Validation The SVA AS will validate the input MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data file from each VLP and ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data from the NETSO to ensure: Physical integrity; and That the data file contains all mandatory data items in the required formats in accordance with the SVA Data Catalogue. Validation Stage 2 – Business Logic Validation The SVA AS will validate the MSID Pair Delivered Volume Data in accordance with the requirements in Section S. The Half Hourly Delivered Volume data will be validated to ensure that: It is from a valid Party (i.e. a qualified Supplier or VLP) or the NETSO |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0282 – MSID Pair Delivered Volumes Notification P0292 – ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volumes Notification |
Issues: |
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5.7 Capture or Defaulting of Missing Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F007 | Status: M | Title: Capture or Defaulting of Missing Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data | BSC reference: BSCP01 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
In the event of Missing Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data within the effective date range of the D0355, the SVAA Agent shall be required to carry out the following: Notify the relevant HHDA of missing Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data. Make every attempt to procure the missing data from the relevant HHDA in accordance with BSCP01. In the event where all attempts to acquire the missing data are unsuccessful then the SVAA Agent shall perform the following tasks: Derive data from the previous Settlement Run for that Settlement Day. If no previous Settlement Run exists then no data is entered into that Settlement Run. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
D0355 - Metering System Reporting Confirmation D0385 – Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data |
Issues: |
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5.8 Capture or Defaulting of Missing MSID Pair Delivered Volumes
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F008 | Status: M | Title: Capture or Defaulting of Missing MSID Pair Delivered Volumes | BSC reference: BSCP01 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
In the event of missing MSID Pair Delivered Volumes relating to the RR Activations received from SAA, the SVA AS Agent shall: Notify the relevant Lead Party of missing MSID Pair Delivered Volumes; and. Make every attempt to procure the missing data from the relevant Lead Party in accordance with BSCP01. In the event where all attempts to acquire the missing data are unsuccessful then the SVA AS shall: Deem a zero for the Settlement Run Note that this process should not be applied to ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volumes. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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P0282 – Half Hourly Delivered Volumes |
Issues: |
5.9 MSID Pair Delivered Volume Apportionment
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F009 | Status: M | Title MSID Pair Delivered Volume Apportionment | BSC Reference |
Man/auto Automatic | Frequency As required | Volumes |
Functional Requirement For each Settlement Period and Settlement Run, the SVA AS shall determine the Metering System Delivered Volumes for each Metering System Number in a MSID Pair, .using the Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data and the MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notifications or ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notifications received. Note that where a MSID Pair does not include an Export MSID, the SVA AS will allocate all of the MSID Pair Delivered Volume to the Import MSID. |
Steps: Determine Metering System Delivered Volumes [QVMDKj] for each Settlement Period and for each relevant Metering System per Settlement Run Case 1 – If MSID Pair Delivered Volumes is greater than or equal to zero and there exists an Export MSID in the MSID Pair Then the Export Metering System Delivered Volume shall be calculated as follows: -
QVMDKj = MIN(MPDVj, VMMCHZaNLKji) | Case 2 - If MSID Pair Delivered Volumes is greater than or equal to zero for the Import MSID in the MSID Pair This shall be calculated as follows: -
QVMDKj = MPDVj - QVMDExport | Where QVMDExport is the value of QVMDKj allocated to the Export MSID in accordance with paragraph (a), or zero if there is no Export MSID in the MSID Pair. Case 3 – If MSID Pair Delivered Volumes is less than zero for the Import MSID in the MSID Pair This shall be calculated as follows: -
QVMDKj = – MIN(–MPDVj, VMMCHZaNLKji) | Case 4 – If MSID Pair Delivered Volumes is less than zero for the Export MSID in the MSID Pair This shall be calculated as follows: -
QVMDKj = MPDVj - QVMDImport | Case 5 – If MSID Pair Delivered Volumes is less than zero and if MPDV < –VMMCHZaNLKji and there is no Export MSID in the MSID Pair then for the Import MSID: This shall be calculated as follows: -
In such a case SVA AS will log a rejection message against the MSID pair in “MSID Pair Delivered Volume Exception Report” to be reported in P0285 report to the VLP, or in the P0295 report to the NETSO, as appropriate. Note that the above formulae have been defined in the BSC Annex S-2 |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces |
D0385 – Aggregated Half Hourly Metered Volumes P0282 – Aggregated MSID Pair Delivered Volumes P0292 – ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume Notifications P0291 – BM/RR Activation Reports |
Issues |
5.10 Calculation of Line Losses for Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F010 | Status: M | Title: Calculation of Half Hourly Metered Line Losses | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: Once per Settlement Run | Volumes TBD |
Functional Requirement: For all Settlement Runs dates, the SVA AS shall adjust Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data for Line Losses each Half-Hourly SVA metering system number using the Line Loss Factor Class (LLFC) provided by the HHDA. This calculation shall be performed at MSID level and subsequently aggregated to Secondary BMU level when calculating the Secondary BMU Demand Volumes. |
Calculation Steps: Calculate the Half Hourly consumption metered Losses This is done by calculating the Secondary Half Hourly consumption metered Losses (VLOSSi2KNji ) value for each Metering System and Secondary BM Unit and determine the CCC ID (Losses); this will be equivalent to the original delivered volume with a consumption component indicator for class specific Line Loss. This shall be calculated as follows: -
| Calculate the Half Hourly Metered Consumption This is done by calculating the Secondary Half Hourly Consumption Non Losses
value for each Metering System and Secondary BM Unit This shall be calculated as follows: -
Note that the above formulae have been defined in the BSC, Annex S-2): VLOSSi2NKj -
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“N” represents the Consumption Component Class (CCC) “K” represents the SVA Metering System Number “i2” represents the Secondary BM Unit “j” represents the Settlement Period “I” represents the BM Unit “L” represents the Line Loss Factor Class |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces: |
D0385 – Aggregated Half Hourly Metered Volumes |
Issues |
5.11 Calculation of Secondary BM Unit Half Hourly Demand Volumes
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F011 | Status: M | Title: Calculation of Secondary BM Unit Half Hourly Demand Volumes | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: Once per Settlement Run | Volumes TBD |
Functional Requirement: For all Settlement Runs post P344 Go Live, the SVAA shall adjust HH metered data for GSP Group Correction Factor (GSP GCF) and GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight for each SVA Metering Number. This calculation shall be performed at Secondary BM Unit level by applying the GSP Corrections to the aggregated metered consumption Non-Losses and Losses. |
Calculation Steps: Aggregate Metered Data Consumption Non-Losses The metered consumption (Non-Losses) shall be aggregated based on the Secondary BM Unit to derive a value per Secondary BM Unit and CCC ID. This shall be calculated as follows: -
Aggregate Metered Consumption Losses The metered consumption (Losses) shall be aggregated based on the Secondary BM Unit to derive a value per Secondary BM Unit and CCC ID. This shall be calculated as follows: -
Adjust the Half Hourly Metered Data for GSP Group Correction Factor and GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight. This shall be calculated as follows: -
| Aggregate to Secondary BM Unit Level The SVAA shall aggregate Line Loss and GSP Group Correction Factor adjusted metered data received from the HHDA to calculate Secondary BM Unit Demand Volume (
) in MWh for each Secondary BM Unit. This shall be calculated as follows: -
Note that the above formulae contain references to formulae that have been defined in the Legal Text (Annex S-2): “
” represents the Secondary BM Unit Metered Consumption (Non-Losses) “
represents Secondary BM Unit Metered Consumption (Losses) “
represents the GSP Group Correction Factor “
represents the GSP Group Correction Scaling Factor “
represents the aggregation over Consumption Component Class Where export CCC ID = Positive and import CCC ID = negative “H” represents the GSP Group “N” represents the Consumption Component Class (CCC) “K” represents the SVA Metering System Number “i2” represents the Secondary BM Unit “j” represents the Settlement Period “i” represents the BM Unit |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces |
L0054 - GSP Group Correction Factor D0385 – calculated Metered Consumptions and Losses |
Issues |
5.12 Exception Handling for MSID Pair Delivered Volume Apportionment
Requirement ID: SVA_AS_F012 | Status: M | Title: Exception Handling for MSID Pair Delivered Volume Apportionment | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
Functional Requirements: |
In the event where the MSID Pair Delivered Volume or ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume cannot be apportioned in full to between the SVA Metering Systems using the above mentioned MSID Pair Delivered Volumes Apportionment process, the SVAA shall do the following: SVAA shall log an exception where the MSID Pair Delivered Volumes cannot be apportioned between the SVA Metering Systems MSIDs. Generate a MSID Pair Delivered Volume Exception Report. Send the MSID Pair Delivered Volume Exception Report to the relevant VLP or the NETSO, as appropriate. Inform BSCCo of MSID Pair Delivered Volume Exception. |
Non-Functional Requirements: |
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Interfaces: |
P0285 - MSID Pair Delivered Volume Exception Report P0295 - ABS MSID Pair Delivered Volume Exception Report |
Issues: |
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5.13 Calculation of Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Line Losses
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F013 | Status: M | Title Calculation of Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Line Losses | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVAA shall determine the Secondary Half Hourly Delivered Losses within Consumption Component Class; which Consumption Component Class shall be a Consumption Component Class for line losses for each Metering System for each Secondary BM Unit and Supplier BM Unit. |
Calculate the delivered losses This shall be calculated as follows: -
| Calculate the delivered consumptions This shall be calculated as follows: -
Note that the above formulae contain references to formulae that have been defined in the Legal Text (Annex S-2): “(VDLOSS)” represents the Secondary Half Hourly Delivered Losses “
” represents Secondary Half Hourly Delivered Volumes “
” represents the Line Loss Factor Class “L” “N” represents the Consumption Component Class (CCC) “K” represents the SVA Metering System Number “i2” represents the Secondary BM Unit “j” represents the Settlement Period |
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Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces |
Issues |
5.14 Calculation of Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Volumes
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F014 | Status: M | Title Calculation of Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Volumes | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVAA shall calculate the Adjusted Delivered Volume by applying the GSP Group Correction Factor and GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight to the above calculated Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Losses. |
Note that the SVAA shall retrieve the GSP Group Correction factor relevant to the Settlement Period for the GSP Groups. Calculate the corrected component: This shall be calculated as follows: -
VCORDCi2NKji = (VDi2NKji + VDLOSSi2NKji ) * (1 + (CFHj - 1) * WTN) | Aggregate to Primary BMU level for each Secondary BMU: This shall be calculated as follows: -
| Note that the above formulae contain references to formulae that have been defined in the Legal Text (Annex S-2): VCORDCi2NKji - Secondary BM Unit Delivered Volumes VDi2NKji - Secondary BMU HH Delivered (non-losses) VDLOSSi2NKj - Secondary BMU HH Delivered Loss CFHj - GSP Group Correction Factor for GSP Group "H" - GSP Group WTN - GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight for Consumption Component Class (non-losses) "N" - Consumption Component Class
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the summation over all CCC ids in a given metering system
is the summation over all MSID allocated to Supplier BM Unit "i" - represents the BM Unit |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces |
Issues |
5.15 Report Secondary Half Hourly Consumption Volumes
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F015 | Status: M | Title Report Secondary Half Hourly Consumption Volumes | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVA AS shall report Secondary Half Hour Consumption Volumes to each relevant Virtual Lead Party. The SVA AS shall produce the reports daily in accordance with SSR Run schedule, each file contains data for a settlement day / run. |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces: |
P0288 |
Issues |
5.16 Report Secondary BM Unit Demand Volumes
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F016 | Status: M | Title Report Secondary BM Unit Demand Volumes | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVA AS shall report the adjusted Secondary BM Unit Demand volumes to SAA. The SVA AS shall produce the reports daily in accordance with SSR Run schedule, each file contains data for a Settlement Day and Settlement Run. |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces: |
P0289 |
Issues |
5.17 Report Secondary Half Hourly Delivered Volumes
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F017 | Status: Mandatory | Title Report Adjusted Secondary Half Hourly Delivered Volumes | BSC Reference |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVA AS shall report the Secondary Half Hourly Delivered (Non-Losses) volumes to the relevant Suppliers subject to Customer Consent Flag status (i.e. where the Customer Consent Flag has been marked as TRUE). The SVA AS shall report the Secondary Half Hourly Delivered (Losses) volumes to the relevant Suppliers subject to Customer Consent Flag status (i.e. where the Customer Consent Flag has been marked as TRUE). The SVA AS shall produce the reports daily in accordance with SSR Run schedule, each file contains data for a Settlement Day and Settlement Run. |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces: |
P0287 |
Issues |
5.18 Report Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Volumes
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F018 | Status: Mandatory | Title Report Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered Volumes | BSC Reference |
Method: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVA AS shall report the adjusted the Secondary BM Unit Supplier Delivered volumes to SAA. The SVA AS shall produce the reports daily in accordance with SSR Run schedule, each file contains data for a Settlement Day and Settlement Run. |
Non-Functional Requirement |
Interfaces: |
P0290 |
Issues |
5.19 Calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F019 | Status: M | Title Calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD | BSC Reference P354 |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVAA shall calculate the Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD |
For each Metering System Delivered Volume (QVMDKj) value for a Metering System associated with the NETSO in the SVA Metering System Register, the SVAA shall determine the ABSVD BM Unit Delivered Volume (AQVMDiNLKj) by assigning the Metering System Delivered Volume value to the relevant Supplier BM Unit "i" as recorded in the SVA Metering System Register, Line Loss Factor Class "L" and Consumption Component Class "N". The SVAA shall determine the MSID ABSVD (Non Losses) (MSABSVDiNKj) within Consumption Component Class "N" (which Consumption Component Class shall not be a Consumption Component Class for line losses) for each Metering System "K" for each Supplier BM unit "i" according to the following formula: MSABSVDiNKj = AQVMDiNLKj The SVAA shall determine the MSID ABSVD (Losses) (MSABSVDLiNKj) within Consumption Component Class "N" (which Consumption Component Class shall be a Consumption Component Class for line losses) for each Metering System "K" for each Supplier BM Unit "i" according to the following formula: MSABSVDLiNKj = (∑(vv)L ((LLFLj - 1) * ∑ (vv)PR AQVMDiNLKj)) The SVAA shall send MSID ABSVD (Losses) (MSABSVDLiNKj) and MSID ABSVD (Non Losses) (MSABSVDiNKj) for those MSIDs which have Customer consent (supplied in the ABS MSID Pair data notified to the SVAA) to the relevant Supplier. The SVAA shall determine the Corrected MSID ABSVD Component (CORABSVDCiNKj) for each Consumption Component Class "N" within Supplier BM Unit "i" according to the following formula: CORABSVDCiNKj = (MSABSVDiNKj + MSABSVDLiNKj) * (1 + (CFHj - 1) * WTN) where WTN is the associated GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight and CFHj is the value of GSP Group Correction Factor for the GSP Group "H" associated with the Supplier BM Unit "i". In respect of each Supplier BM Unit "i", the SVAA shall determine the Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD (SNBABSVDij) for each Settlement Period "j" according the following formula: SNBABSVDij = ∑N CORABSVDCiNKj |
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5.20 Report Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD
Requirements ID SVA_AS_F020 | Status: Mandatory | Title Report Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD | BSC Reference |
Method: Automatic | Frequency | Volumes |
Functional Requirement: The SVA AS shall report the Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD ((SNBABSVDij) to SAA. The SVA AS shall produce the reports daily, and each file shall contain data for a Settlement Day and Settlement Run. |
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6. Interface Requirements
The SVA AS shall provide an interface to the following BSC Parties and
Systems. Please refer to the
System Context Diagram for data flows.
7 Non-functional Requirements
This section specifies the Non-Functional Requirements for the SVA AS
Req. No. | Requirement Name | Requirement |
SVA_AS_N001 | Reliability | The SVA AS must be always on 100% and reliably performing its main business functions with the exceptions: Where there is a planned BSC Systems downtime |
SVA_AS_N002 | Availability | BSC operations relating to the SVAA Aggregation Service must be completed with 100% success rate for E2E settlement process in accordance with the Settlement Calendar and BSC Obligations. |
SVA_AS_N003 | Auditing | The SVAA Aggregation Service (SVA AS) will need to record an audit log of all business transactions. Such business transactions shall include; Receipt of Data, Technical/Business Validation, Use of Substitute data, Calculations, manual interventions, reporting and error logs. |
SVA_AS_N004 | Assurance | The SVAA Aggregation Service must be able to: 1. Demonstrate which data set was used in settlement of BM Acceptances and RR Activations or the calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD, as appropriate. 2. Demonstrate how the results of any individual settlement of BM Acceptances and RR Activations, or how Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD was derived. 3. Track and/or re-run any individual settlement of BM Acceptances and RR Activations process or calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD to recreate the results exactly as originally generated, as a historic report. 4. Track and/or re-run settlement of BM Acceptances and RR Activations or calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD rules over time in order to apply calculation rule, which was in force at the date on which the trading day was first settled, or alternatively to apply retrospectively an amended calculation rule. 5. Track and review warning and/or error logs generated by a settlement Run. 6. Track, review, and investigate Settlement of BM Acceptances and RR Activations or calculation of Supplier BM Unit Non BM ABSVD issues and disputes. |
SVA_AS_N005 | Archiving | Active Data – 40 months. Historic Data - must be archived. |
There are no specific service requirements for the SVA AS.
9 User Roles and Activities
The following table describes the user roles which will support the day to day operation of the SVA AS.
Role | Activities |
System Administrator | Database management Specific aspects of system configuration User account and security management |
Supervisor | Management of operators Management of standing data updates Co-ordination of creation of the Settlement Calendar Management of planned operational activities to meet Settlement Calendar timescales and service level requirements Creation of management information reports Support for communication with external parties |
Operator | Performance of procedures to monitor receipt and processing of information from external parties. Performance of procedures to initiate and monitor settlement runs and reports. Second level support for ad hoc queries raised by external parties |
Help Desk Operator | First level support for ad hoc queries raised by external parties. Note that the Help Desk facility shall be shared by more than one service Capture. |
Auditor | There shall be a specific user security configuration which allows an external auditor to review data within the system, but prevents the initiation of batch processes or logical edits to business data. |
APPENDIX I: SVA REQUIREMENTS FOR REPORTING DEMAND DATA TO THE NETSO FOR THE CALCULATION OF NETWORK CHARGES FOR STORAGE FACILITIES
SVAA User Requirements Specification for reporting demand data to the NETSO for the calculation of network charges for storage facilities
Synopsis: The SVAA is responsible for the receipt, validation, processing, storage and communication to NETSO of demand data from Half Hourly Data Aggregators (HHDAs) for SVA Metering Systems(MSIDs) notified as belonging to SVA Storage Facilities. SVAA will use the data collected from HHDAs to calculate:
Aggregated demand from storage facilities in each SVA BMU for each HH ‘Period BMU Gross Storage Demand’ and each Settlement Day ‘Daily BMU Gross HH Storage Demand’; and
Corrected demand for SVA BMUs for each Settlement Period ‘Corrected Period BMU Gross HH Demand’ and each Settlement Day ‘Corrected Daily BMU Gross HH Demand’.
These data items will form part of the P0210 TUoS report, submitted to the NETSO to inform network charging.
This Appendix I sets out the User Requirements for SVAA to process demand data related to Storage Facilities for the purpose of correcting network charging, a service provided by the SVAA BSC Agent. It is one of a set of documents forming the baseline for requirements of the seven BSC central system services. The aforementioned document set comprises:
BMRA URS;
CRA URS;
SAA URS;
ECVAA URS;
CDCA URS;
FAA URS;
SVAA URS;
The objective of this Appendix I is to provide a specification of the requirements that the SVAA must meet in respect of the function of corrected demand sent to NETSO in relation to Storage Facilities for network charging purposes (‘the relevant SVAA function’ for this purpose of this Appendix I), from the users’ point of view. For this purpose, the “users” include BSCCo Ltd, Suppliers and their Agents and the SVAA Service Provider’s own operators.
The SVAA will implement these requirements in a way consistent with the delivery of all other SVAA functional requirements. The requirements include new Data Items and specify new Data Flows, which the SVAA will implement in addition to the items in Sections 6 and 7 of this document.
This Appendix I provides a specification of the requirements for the relevant SVAA function that supports the implementation of the Balancing and Settlement Code. The requirements are described from the point of view of the relevant SVAA function users.
The document is divided into the following sections.
Section 3, Business and System Overview – describes the business context of the Service;
Section 4, Functional Requirements – describes the functional requirements of the Service from the point of view of the Service users;
Section 5, Interface Requirements – describes the interfaces with the external users of the Service;
Section 6, Non-Functional Requirements – describes the non-functional requirements of the Service, such as auditing, security and resilience;
3 Business and System Overview
This section provides an overview of the SVAA user requirements and is for indicative purposes only. The definitive statement of user requirements is given in the subsequent sections.
3.1 Summary of Business Requirements
SVAA shall receive, validate and store the inbound data, provided by BSC Parties, Party Agents and other BSC Services, and perform calculations based on the most recent validated data. This operation shall be performed in accordance with the requirements. SVAA will also produce reports for distribution to the NETSO.Requirements Summary
The following table summarises the functional requirements of the relevant SVAA function These are further described in detail in Section 4 – Functional Requirements, including the source reference for each requirement.
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SVAA RF F001 | Functional | Receive Declaration from Supplier |
SVAA RF F002 | Functional | Process Declarations and assign status |
SVAA RF F003 | Functional | Track changes to MSID details |
SVAA RF F004 | Functional | Validation of New Declarations |
SVAA RF F005 | Functional | Validation of Change of Supplier Declarations |
SVAA RF F006 | Functional | Validation of Change of MSID Declarations |
SVAA RF F007 | Functional | Validation of Change of Agent Declarations |
SVAA RF F008 | Functional | Validation of Withdrawal Declarations |
SVAA RF F009 | Functional | End Storage Facility as Central Action |
SVAA RF F010 | Functional | Notifications to Supplier |
SVAA RF F011 | Functional | Send D0354 |
SVAA RF F012 | Functional | Investigate missing/incorrect metered data |
SVAA RF F013 | Functional | Liaise with HHDA on rejection of D0354 |
SVAA RF F014 | Functional | Receive and store valid metered data |
SVAA RF F015 | Functional | Calculate Storage Demand Volumes |
SVAA RF F016 | Functional | Update instruction flows |
SVAA RF F017 | Functional | Revoke HHDA instruction to provide metered data |
SVAA RF F018 | Functional | Report demand volumes to NETSO |
SVAA RF F019 | Functional | Make data subject to Declaration available to BSCCo |
SVAA RF F020 | Functional | Maintain validity of Declarations |
SVAA_RF_N001 | Non-Functional | Archiving |
3.2 Attributes of Individual Requirements
For each identified requirement, the following items of information are represented in a tabular format:
Requirement ID: a unique identifier for the requirement, as described above.
Status: while the majority of relevant SVAA function requirements will be mandatory for the Go Live date, others may not necessarily be. This field indicates whether the requirement is Mandatory (M) or Optional (O) in this context.
Title: a short descriptive title for the requirement.
BSC reference: a cross reference to the BSC documentation which is the original source of the business need. In most cases this will include a reference to the relevant Service Description and where appropriate, any Modifications that have affected a particular requirement.
Man/auto: this field provides an indication as to whether a given requirement is likely to be satisfied by a manual, as opposed to automated, mechanism.
Frequency: an indication of how often a business event will take place. Minimum, maximum and average frequencies, and any timing or scheduling requirements, are also identified here, as appropriate.
Volumes: data volumes associated with the requirement are identified here; this may include an estimate of the initial volume, and subsequent growth rates.
The requirement is then described in detail, with any associated specific non-functional and interface requirements separately identified. Any outstanding issues relating to the requirement definition are also identified.
4 Functional Requirements
This section describes the detailed set of functional requirements for the relevant SVAA function.
4.1 Receive Declaration from Supplier
Requirement ID: SVAA RF_F001 | Status: M | Title: Receive Declaration from Supplier | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall receive Declarations from Suppliers. Declarations will contain the following information: Source (x1) Supplier Contact Email Address Supplier MPID Declaration (x1) Declaration Type Declaration Set ID Declaration Declaration Effective Date Storage Facility Operator (SFO) (x1) SFO Participant ID SFO Company Number SFO Company Name SFO Company Address SFO Company Director SFO Contact Name SFO Contact Phone SFO Contact Email Storage Facility (SF) (x1) SF ID SF Name SF Address/Location SF Description SF Effective From Date SF Effective To Date SF Total MSIDs Count Metering System (xN) MSID MS Import Export Indicator MS GSP Group MS SF Effective From Date MS SF Effective To Date MS Supplier Effective From Date MS HHDA MPID MS HHDA Effective From Date SVAA shall create Data Items and Relationships to store Declaration items, including mapping the following relationships: Map storage facility to Operator Name. Map storage facility to MSID(s). Map Operator(s) to Supplier(s). Map MSID(s) to HHDA appointment (same process as the existing MSID Pair model). Map MSID(s) to Supplier (same process as the existing MSID Pair model). SVAA shall map effective from date and effective to date of the above relationships. HHDA Appointments Effective Dates must overlap with the MSID Pair Effective Dates range, |
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4.2 Process Declarations and assign status
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F002 | Status: M | Title: Process Declarations and assign status | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall process Declarations and updates to Declarations according to the following processes; For new declarations, Change of Supplier Declarations and Change of MSID declarations: SVAA shall create a Declaration associated with a Supplier, enter the declaration type and store details of the Declaration. SVAA shall manually validate the declaration according to SVAA RF F004, SVAA RF F005 or SVAA RF F006 as applicable. SVAA shall create the Supplier registration and HHDA appointment, and submit the Declaration to automatic validation according to SVAA RF F004, SVAA RF F005 or SVAA RF F006 as applicable. For a Change of Agent Declaration: SVAA shall validate the submission according to SVAA RF F007, create a Declaration associated with a Supplier, match the Storage Facility Role, Storage Facility and MSID(s) and validate with existing Declaration. Following successful validation, SVAA shall submit the declaration to automatic validation according to SVAA RF F007. For Withdrawal Declaration: SVAA shall create a Declaration and match the details with existing Declaration. SVAA shall validate the submission according to SVAA RF F008 and following successful validation submit the declaration to automatic validation according to SVAA RF F008. SVAA shall assign a status to each Declaration and MSIDs within a Declaration. Status will be one of: Draft (in process of validation) Submit Incomplete (where the set of MSIDs in related declarations does not include all the MSIDs of the Storage Facility) Reject Valid Obsolete |
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4.3 Track changes to MSID Details
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F003 | Status: M | Title: Track changes to MSID details | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall ensure that MSID records created or amended according to BSC processes including this relevant SVAA function are consistent for the period of time that the MSID records overlap. SVAA shall use the most updated MSIDs, and maintain a process for marking MSIDs as Pending where MSID information does not match. On registering new MSIDs with the same Import or Export MSID and concurrent effective dates as another MSID, SVAA shall verify existing data for that MSID and apply any existing data to the new MSID. SVAA shall manually validate MSIDs created in this way and update accordingly. SVAA shall ensure Supplier and HHDA records match for the new and existing MSID submissions. If records do not match, SVAA shall reject the new MSID. |
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4.4 Validation of New Declarations
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F004 | Status: M | Title: Validation of New Declarations | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall process Declaration type ‘New’ where there are is no existing valid Declaration for the Storage Facility identified in the Declaration. SVAA shall validate New Declarations as follows; For each step if validation passes proceed to next step Step | Validation | Condition | Manual/ Automatic | Result | 1 | Declaration ID | The Declaration ID must not be present for a New declaration. | Automatic (A) | If declaration ID is present for a New declaration, the Declaration is rejected and the supplier is notified | 2 | Check if operator details already recorded | | Manual (M) | If yes check operator details match | 3 | Check operator details match | If operator details already recorded then Declaration must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3a | Check Declaration set ID is new for SFO | Check Declaration for same SFO and that Declaration Set ID is not already Valid/Obsolete | A | If Declaration Set ID has been used by SFO then reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 4 | Check operator details | Check SFO registered on Companies House. Check SFO Company Number matches Electricity Generation license | M | If details not present reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 5 | Check Storage Facility details match live Storage Facility | Check Storage Facility is not already live with overlapping dates in other Declaration | M | If Storage Facility already live reject Declaration and inform Supplier | | For each MSID in the declaration | | | | 6 | Check MSID in ECOES | Check MSID is energised, registered to correct Supplier, MSID EFD/ETD overlap with Storage Facility Period, Import/Export match, GSP Group match, HHDA match, MSIDs are SVAA HH MSIDs | M | If MSID details are not valid reject Declaration and inform Supplier. If MSIDs are not SVA HH MSIDs reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 7 | Check MSIDs in other declaration in same set | MSID cannot be in same Storage Facility with more than one Supplier at same time | A | If MSID in another overlapping declaration in same set reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 7a | Check MSIDs in other live storage facilities | MSID cannot be in more than one Storage Facility at one time | A | If MSID in overlapping live Storage Facilities reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 8 | Check MSID registered for other purposes | If MSID registered for other purpose check HHDA and Supplier | A | If HHDA/Supplier do not match for overlapping periods suspend Declaration. Records can be corrected and validation continued. | 9 | Check related declarations | Declarations of same type with same Declaration Set ID | A | If no, set timer for 5 days. After 5 days for Declarations marked incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 10 | For all related Declarations | Declarations of same type with same Declaration Set ID | A | If no, set timer for 5 days. After 5 days for Declarations marked incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 11 | Check MSID count | MSID count equal MSIDs in related Declarations. Check completeness of related Declarations | A | If no, mark as incomplete and inform Supplier. | 12 | Check Import/Export | Set includes Import/Export MSIDs | A | If no reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 12a | Check MSID count | Related Declarations complete. MSID count matches MSIDs in related Declarations | A | If no, mark as incomplete and inform Supplier | 13 | Check related details match | Storage Facility and Operator details match | A | If no, reject Declaration and inform Supplier. If yes, Declaration marked as valid, generate Declaration ID, notify Supplier. | 14 | Incomplete after 5 days | | A | Once Declaration incomplete for 5 days reject Declaration and related Declarations and inform Supplier | |
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4.5 Validation of Change of Supplier Declarations
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F005 | Status: M | Title: Validation of Change of Supplier Declarations | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall process Declaration type ‘Change of Supplier’ (CoS) where there is a current valid set of Declarations for a Storage Facility and there is a change of Supplier. SVAA shall validate CoS Declarations as follows; For each step if validation passes proceed to next step unless result indicates otherwise Step | Validation | Condition | Manual/ Automatic | Result | 1 | Declaration ID | The Declaration ID must be present for a CoS declaration and relate to a live Declaration. | Automatic (A) | If Declaration does not contain Declaration ID relating to existing live Storage Facility reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 2 | Check operator details match | If operator details already recorded then Declaration must match | Manual (M) | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 2a | Check Declaration set ID is new for SFO | Check Declaration for same SFO and that Declaration Set ID is not already Valid/Obsolete | A | If Declaration Set ID has been used by SFO then reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3 | Storage Facility matches included Operator Contact Details | | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 4 | MSID exists in existing Declaration and details match | | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 5 | MSID not registered to new Supplier | Is Supplier in CoS Declaration different to Supplier for MSID | M | If yes, go to 6, if no, go to 9 | 6 | MSID ECOES details match | New Supplier and HHDA EFD/ETD match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 7 | MSID live in other Declaration with overlapping EFD/ETD | | A | If MSID is live in other Declaration with overlapping EFD/ETD reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 8 | Check related declarations | Declarations of same type with same Declaration Set ID | A | If no, set timer for 5 days. After 5 days for Declarations marked incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | | For all related Declarations | | | | 9 | Check MSID count | MSID count equal MSIDs in related Declarations. Check completeness of related Declarations | A | If no, mark as incomplete and inform Supplier. | 10 | Check Import/Export | Set includes Import/Export MSIDs | A | If no reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 11 | At least one CoS | A CoS Declaration set must include one CoS | A | If CoS declaration with no CoS reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 12 | Check related details match | Storage Facility and Operator details match | A | If no, reject Declaration and inform Supplier. If yes, Declaration marked as valid, generate Declaration ID, notify Supplier. | 13 | Incomplete after 5 days | | A | Once Declaration incomplete for 5 days reject Declaration and related Declarations and inform Supplier | |
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4.6 Validation of Change of MSID Declarations
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F006 | Status: M | Title: Validation of Change of MSID Declarations | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall process Declaration type ‘Change of MSID’ (CoM) where there is a current valid set of Declarations for a Storage Facility and there is a change of MSIDs included in the Storage Facility. SVAA shall validate CoM Declarations as follows; For each step if validation passes proceed to next step unless result indicates otherwise Step | Validation | Condition | Manual/ Automatic | Result | 1 | Data Complete, MSID formatted | | Manual (M) | If Declaration incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 2 | Declaration ID | The Declaration ID must be present for a CoM declaration and relate to a live Declaration. | Automatic (A) | If Declaration does not contain Declaration ID relating to existing live Storage Facility reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3 | Check operator details match | If operator details already recorded then Declaration must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3a | Check Declaration set ID is new for SFO | Check Declaration for same SFO and that Declaration Set ID is not already Valid/Obsolete | A | If Declaration Set ID has been used by SFO then reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 4 | Storage Facility matches included Operator Contact Details | Details other than MSID count must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 5 | Check Supplier already recorded for Storage Facility | Supplier must be registered for MSID that is retained | M | If Supplier not current Supplier at the Storage Facility reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 6 | Check MSID end date | | M | If yes go to 7, if no go to 8 | 7 | Check ETD after start date and before ETD of Storage Facility | | M | If no reject Declaration and inform Supplier If yes MSID can be removed | 8 | Check MSID new in declaration | | M | If no go to 9 If yes go to 10 | 9 | Check MSID details match existing record | Details of Supplier, HHDA, GSP Group mMust match with current record | M | If no reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 10 | MSID ECOES details match | New Supplier and HHDA EFF match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 11 | Check MSID in other declarations | Is MSID live in other Declaration with overlapping EFD/ETD | A | If yes, reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 12 | Check MSIDs registered for other purposes/HHDA mismatch | Check MSID registered for other purposes. If yes, do Supplier and HHDA match? | A | If HHDA/Supplier association records for Storage Facility MSID and existing MSID records do not match suspect Declaration. Records can be corrected and validation continued. | 13 | Check related declarations | Declarations of same type with same Declaration Set ID | A | If no, set timer for 5 days. After 5 days for Declarations marked incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | | For set of Declarations | | | | 14 | Check MSID count | MSID count equal MSIDs in related Declarations. Check completeness of related Declarations | A | If no, mark as incomplete and inform Supplier. | 15 | Check Import/Export | Set includes Import/Export MSIDs | A | If no reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 16 | At least one CoM | A CoM Declaration set must include one CoM | A | If CoM declaration with no CoM reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 17 | Details from related Declarations match | Storage Facility and Operator details match | A | If no match reject Declaration and inform Supplier. If yes, Declaration marked as valid, generate new Declaration ID, notify Supplier. Where required, obsolete MSID is end dated. | 18 | Incomplete after 5 days | | A | Once Declaration incomplete for 5 days reject Declaration and related Declarations and inform Supplier | |
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4.7 Validation of Change of Agent Declarations
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F007 | Status: M | Title: Validation of Change of Agent Declarations | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall process Declaration type ‘Change of Agent’ (CoA) where there is a current valid set of Declarations for a Storage Facility and a Supplier is recording a change of HHDA for one or more MSIDs. SVAA shall validate CoA Declarations as follows; For each step if validation passes proceed to next step unless result indicates otherwise Step | Validation | Condition | Manual/ Automatic | Result | 1 | Data Complete, MSID formatted | | Manual (M) | If Declaration incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 2 | Declaration ID | The Declaration ID must be present for a CoA declaration and relate to a live Declaration. | Automatic (A) | If Declaration does not contain Declaration ID relating to existing live Storage Facility reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3 | Check operator details match | If operator details already recorded then Declaration must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3a | Check Declaration set ID is new for SFO | Check Declaration for same SFO and that Declaration Set ID is not already Valid/Obsolete | A | If Declaration Set ID has been used by SFO then reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 4 | Storage Facility matches included Operator Contact Details | Details other than MSID count must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 5 | ECOES validation | Supplier, HHDA, EFD/ETD match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 6 | Check MSIDs registered for other purposes/HHDA mismatch | Check MSID registered for other purposes. If yes, do Supplier and HHDA match? | A | If HHDA/Supplier association records for Storage Facility MSID and existing MSID records do not match suspect Declaration. Records can be corrected and validation continued. | 7 | All validation successful | | A | New HHDA appointment dates set, Declaration set to approved, inform Supplier | |
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4.8 Validation of Withdrawal Declarations
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F008 | Status: M | Title: Validation of Withdrawal Declarations | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall process Declaration type ‘Withdrawal’ (WD) where there is a current valid set of Declarations for a Storage Facility and a Supplier is recording a that the Storage Facility is to cease operating as a Storage Facility. SVAA shall validate WD Declarations as follows; For each step if validation passes proceed to next step unless result indicates otherwise Step | Validation | Condition | Manual/ Automatic | Result | 1 | Data Complete, MSID formatted | | Manual (M) | If Declaration incomplete reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 2 | Declaration ID refers to live Storage Facility | The Declaration ID must be present for a WD declaration and relate to a live Storage Facility. | M | If Declaration does not contain Declaration ID relating to existing live Storage Facility reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3 | Check operator details match | If operator details already recorded then Declaration must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 3a | Check Declaration set ID is new for SFO | Check Declaration for same SFO and that Declaration Set ID is not already Valid/Obsolete | Automatic (A) | If Declaration Set ID has been used by SFO then reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 4 | Storage Facility matches included Operator Contact Details | Details other than MSID count must match | M | If details do not match reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 5 | MSID exists and registered to Supplier making Declaration | | M | If no, reject Declaration and inform Supplier | 6 | All validation successful | | A | New HHDA appointment dates set, Declaration set to approved, inform Supplier | |
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4.9 End Storage Facility as Central Action
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F009 | Status: M | Title: End Storage Facility as Central Action | BSC reference: |
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SVAA shall record as invalid any Storage Facility discovered to no longer comply with the requirements for a Storage Facility following any SVAA investigation which may be triggered by any SVAA process. |
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4.10 Notifications to Suppliers
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F010 | Status: M | Title: Notifications to Supplier | BSC reference: |
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When a Declaration is rejected, SVAA shall send a notification with the reason or reasons for the rejection to the Supplier making that Declaration. When a Declaration is determined to be incomplete, SVAA shall send a notification to the Supplier making that Declaration. Notifications of incomplete Declarations apply to Declarations within a set that do not complete the set of related Declarations When a Declaration is determined to be valid, SVAA shall send a notification to the Supplier making that Declaration. Notifications of valid Declarations apply to the set of Declarations made. When a Storage Facility reaches its ETD SVAA shall send a notification to all Suppliers involved. Notifications of Storage facilities reaching their ETD apply to the set of Declarations made. |
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Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F011 | Status: M | Title: Send D0354 | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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SVAA shall identify the correct Half Hourly Data Aggregator (HHDA) for the provision of Metering System Half-Hourly Metered Volume data for each MSID linked to a Declaration as follows; SVAA shall identify all HHDAs where there is a valid set of Declaration, MSID and HHDA EFD and ETD values creating an active HHDA to MSID to Declaration relationship. For each HHDA linked to an MSID with a current, valid Declaration SVAA shall create a D0354 file and send to the HHDAs. SVAA shall maintain a target participate file sequence number, incrementing it for each new file created where that file requires a sequence number for that participant. |
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4.12 Investigate missing/incorrect metered data
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F012 | Status: M | Title: Investigate missing/incorrect metered data | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual & Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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Upon receipt of metered data from HHDA via D0385, the SVAA shall investigate instances where: it receives metered data for a declared MSID, but Supplier ID in D0385 is different to Supplier ID in SVAA registration record; or it receives metered data from a HHDA for a declared MSID that is different to HHDA in SVAA registration record for a given Volume Allocation Run. The SVAA should investigate instances where it does not receive metered data for an MSID when it is expecting data. If upon investigation the SVAA confirms a change of either Supplier or HHDA, then: Where a Supplier changed, the SVAA should end date the Declaration(s) on the last day of the previous Supplier’s registration. New Supplier should not be notified in such instance. If SVAA requires D0385 data for a given MSID for a different purpose (e.g. reporting for Secondary BM Units), then SVAA will not issue D0354 to terminate instruction and therefore HHDA will be expected to continue submitting Metered Data. Where a HHDA has changed in an event not related to Change of Supplier, the SVAA should appoint the new HHDA. Once the new HHDA accepted the appointment, the SVAA should update the Declaration record by end dating the old HHDA, and adding the new HHDA. |
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4.13 Liaise with HHDA on rejection of D0354
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F013 | Status: S | Title: Liaise with HHDA on rejection of D0354 | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Manual | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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Where a HHDA rejects an appointment, the SVAA should liaise with the HHDA and Supplier to understand the reason for rejection so it can resolve and subsequently confirm the/an appointment (by resending a D0354). |
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4.14 Receive and store valid metered data
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F014 | Status: M | Title: Receive and store valid metered data | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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In respect of the relevant SVAA function and notwithstanding requirements from any other BSC process, SVAA shall process, validate and store all metered data received via D0385 in respect of MSIDs subject to a valid and current Declaration. SVAA shall receive the D0385 via the Data Transfer Network (DTN) or as agreed with the relevant HHDA in accordance with Party Service Line 100. SVAA shall process D0385 receipts according to the following steps; 1. The D0385 HHDA files are received for each GSP group and the combination of HHDA and GSP group shall be determined using SVAA reference data for “Storage MSID Details”. The combinations will be identified by finding entries where the settlement date is between the “HHDA Supplier Effective From Date” and “HHDA Supplier Effective To Date”. The combination of HHDA and associated GSP Group shall define the list of files expected for MSIDs associated with Storage Facilities. 2. File Receipt: When a file is received SVAA shall record its receipt. Using the expected D0385 go through the list of HHDA and GSP group combinations to determine if all expected files have been received for that settlement day and code. If before the SSR run date (i.e. a time trigger has not been received) and all expected files have been received, then aggregate (or re-aggregate if aggregation has already occurred), creating a new aggregated file and raising an event to notify that new data is available. The service will select only data from MSIDS associated with a Storage Facility and then combine all of the data from all of the received HHDA files for the settlement day and create one file per settlement period that contains all of the data related to that settlement period. The newly created files are stored and transferred to enable the execution of calculation services. When creating the output files, the input Allocated Metering System Metered Consumption will be converted into the Storage Metering System Metered Consumption using: SVMMCHZaNLKji = AVMMCHZaNLKji / 1000 If after the SSR run date then do not create a new aggregated file. 3. Time Based Trigger: When a time based trigger is received, then check if an aggregation has already occurred for the Settlement Period and code identified in the trigger. If it has then do nothing. If an aggregation has not already occurred, i.e. because there is missing data, then aggregation occurs. For each missing file for the settlement date/settlement code and HHDA and GSP group, then attempt to find a valid file for the same combination with an earlier settlement code; refer to domain data for the settlement code sequence. If a substitute file can be found then add the data to the aggregated file and raise a warning to record that the file for the HHDA and GSP group combination was substituted with the file for a different settlement code; the data needs to be available for BSCCo to retrieve. When a substitute file cannot be found then raise a warning to record that no data was available for the HHDA and GSP group; the data needs to be available for BSCCo to retrieve. In this situation the aggregated file will have no entries for that HHDA and GSP group combination. When aggregating data, create output files in the same manner as for step 2. 4. Manual Trigger: When a manual trigger is received, then aggregation occurs, irrespective of whether it has previously occurred or whether we are after the SSR Run date. For each missing file for the settlement date/settlement code and HHDA and GSP group, then attempt to find a valid file for the same combination with an earlier settlement code; refer to domain data for the settlement code sequence. If a substitute file can be found then add the data to the aggregated file and raise a warning to record that the file for the HHDA and GSP group combination was substituted with the file for a different settlement code; the data needs to be available for BSCCo to retrieve. When a substitute file cannot be found then raise a warning to record that no data was available for the HHDA and GSP group; the data needs to be available for BSCCo to retrieve. In this situation the aggregated file will have no entries for that HHDA and GSP group combination. When aggregating data, create output files in the same manner as for step 2. 5. Store the following set of data (extracted D0385 data): MSID Settlement Day Settlement Period Run Type (latest only) GSP Group BMU ID CCC ID LLFC ID Metered Data Storage Facility ID |
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4.15 Calculate Storage Demand Volumes
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F015 | Status: M | Title: Calculate Storage Demand Volumes | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: For each Volume Allocation Run | Volumes: |
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SVAA shall calculate for each settlement period for each Supplier BMU the Period BMU Gross Storage Demand (SDBMUiHZmj). SVAA shall utilise Storage Facility Aggregated HH Metered Data obtained via D0385 and GSP Group Corrections obtained via L0054. To calculate (SDBMUiHZmj) SVAA shall run the following steps; 1. Calculate HH Storage Consumption (Non Losses) for import quantities only: The SVAA shall determine the Half Hourly Storage Consumption (Non Losses) (SCiHZNj) within Consumption Component Class "𝑁" (which Consumption Component Class shall not be a Consumption Component Class for line losses) for each Supplier BM Unit "𝑖" according to the following formula: -
| Where SCiHZNj is calculated for Consumption Component Class "𝑁" for each Import Metering System “𝐾” associated with a SVA Storage Facility, Supplier “Z”, BM Unit "𝑖" and Settlement Period “𝑗”. Note the aggregation by HHDA, suffix 𝑎 has been included to indicate a transformation of the data rather than requiring a summation of the data. 2. Retrieve Line Loss Factor: Retrieve the LLF data using the distributor id and LLFC id for the MSID, and to ensure the same data sets are used for all the calculations the latest valid file from the distributor containing the settlement date will be used where it was received on or before the calculation run began: If LLF data is not present in reference for the LLFC Id and settlement period, then log a warning and default the LLF value to 1. 3. Calculate HH Storage Consumption (Losses) for import quantities only: The SVAA shall determine the Half Hourly Storage Consumption (Losses) (SCLOSSiHZNj) within Consumption Component Class "𝑁" (which Consumption Component Class shall be a Consumption Component Class for line losses) for each Supplier “Z”, BM Unit "𝑖" according to the following formula: -
| Where Storage Metering System Metered Consumption (𝑆𝑉𝑀𝑀𝐶𝐻𝑍𝑎𝑁𝐿𝐾𝑗𝑖) for each Import Metering System “𝐾” associated with a SVA Storage Facility and "(𝑣𝑣)" is the Consumption Component Class (for line losses) associated with the Consumption Component Class "𝑁" for which the value of SCLOSSiHZNj is to be determined. Note the aggregation by HHDA, suffix 𝑎 has been included to indicate a transformation of the data rather than requiring a summation of the data. 4. Calculate Storage Corrected Component: The Storage Corrected Component (SCORCiHZNj) for each Consumption Component Class "𝑁" within Supplier BM Unit "𝑖" shall be determined by the SVAA according to the following formula: -
| Where 𝑊𝑇𝑛 is the associated GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight and 𝐶𝐹𝐻𝑗is the value of GSP Group Correction Factor determined pursuant to paragraph 9.2 for the GSP Group "𝐻" associated with the Supplier BM Unit "𝑖". The HH Storage Consumption (Non Losses) (SCiHZNj) and corresponding HH Storage Consumption (Losses) (SCLOSSiHZNj) shall be retrieved and processed together (although, in normal operation, only one of the two values should be defined for any given BM Unit and CCC Id): For a BM Unit and CCC Id combination, then if the values of SCiHZNj and SCLOSSiHZNj are both non-zero, then log a warning reporting that a CCC Id has both losses and non-losses. The output will continue to be included for that combination; If the GSP GCF value is not available for the BM Unit and CCC Id combination, then log a warning reporting that the secondary corrected component could not be calculated and omit the output for that combination; Based on the GSP Group Correction Scaling Weight based on the CCC Id from the reference data; if the value is not available then log a warning reporting that the corrected component could not be calculated and omit the output for the BM Unit and CCC Id combination; When all values have been retrieved, calculate the secondary corrected component value. If a calculation could not be performed processing should continue to the next consumption. 5. Calculate Period BMU Gross Storage Demand: The Period BM Unit Gross Storage Demand (SDBMUiHZmj) shall be determined by the SVAA by aggregating the Storage Corrected Components (SCORCiHZNj) for each Supplier BM Unit “𝑖", Measurement Class "𝑚" and Settlement Period "𝑗": -
| SVAA shall derive the Period BM Unit Gross Storage Demand by summing the CORC for the relevant CCC IDs. |
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4.16 Update instruction flows
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F016 | Status: M | Title: Update instruction flows | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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Where changes are made to MSIDs subject to a Declaration SVAA shall send updated D0354 instruction flow(s) to the relevant HHDA(s). |
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D0385: Metering System Half Hourly Metered Data |
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4.17 Revoke HHDA instruction to provide metered data
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F017 | Status: M | Title: Revoke HHDA instruction to provide metered data | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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Where SVAA discovers that: and that MSID is not a part of any other instructions made by SVAA (e.g. TERRE process), SVAA shall revoke the instruction to provide metered data sent to HHDA by sending D0354 with the ‘Effective to Settlement Date {MSCM}’ set to reflect the date on which the HHDA should cease reporting metered data. |
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4.18 Report demand volumes to NETSO
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F018 | Status: M | Title: Report demand volumes to NETSO | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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SVAA shall report ‘Corrected Period BMU Gross HH Demand’, ‘Period BMU Gross Storage Demand’, ‘Daily BMU Gross Storage Demand’ and ‘Daily BMU Gross HH Storage Demand’ to the NETSO by adding these items to the P0210 (TUoS Report) Data Flow. SVAA shall use Period BMU Gross Storage Demand (SDBMUiHZmj) and the Internal TUoS Report (HH/NHH) from the L0055 report to calculate the Corrected Period BMU Gross HH Demand, Daily BMU Gross Storage Demand and Daily BMU Gross HH Storage Demand. The P0210 shall be sent according to existing timescales. SVAA shall perform the following steps to calculate and add these items to the P0210 Data Flow: 1. SVAA shall reconstruct the TUoS Report (HH/NHH Split) from the Internal TUoS Report (HH/NHH Split) 2. SVAA shall insert Period BMU Gross Storage Demand field into the report. SVAA shall derive Corrected Period BMU Gross HH Demand and insert into the report. Corrected Period BMU Gross HH Demand shall be derived as follows: -
| Where Period BMU Gross HH Demand𝑖𝐻𝑍𝑚𝑗 is an existing item in the Internal TUoS Report (HH/NHH Split) input, under the HHB data record type group and Period BMU Gross Storage Demand𝑖𝐻𝑍𝑚𝑗 is received as input (on its own) by the service. 3. SVAA shall replace the TO3 record type group with the new version, containing Daily BMU Gross HH Storage Demand and Corrected Daily BMU Gross HH Demand. Daily BMU Gross HH Storage Demand shall be derived as follows: -
| Where Period BMU Gross Storage Demand𝑖𝐻𝑍𝑚𝑗 is summed across every settlement period 𝑗 in a settlement day 𝐷 Corrected Daily BMU Gross HH Demand shall be derived as follows: -
| Where Daily BMU Gross HH Demand𝑖𝐻𝑍𝑚𝐷 is an existing item in the Internal TUoS Report (HH/NHH Split) input. |
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P0210: TUoS Report (HH/NHH Split) |
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4.19 Make data subject to Declaration available to BSCCo
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F019 | Status: M | Title: Make data subject to Declaration available to BSCCo | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: As Necessary | Volumes: |
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SVAA shall make the following data for every MSID that is subject to a Declaration (current and past) available to BSCCo: Storage Facility details: Storage Facility Name Storage Facility Operator Name Storage Facility Declaration start date Storage Facility Declaration end date Declaration ID Declaration Status Declaration Rejection Reason |
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4.20 Maintain validity of Declarations
Requirement ID: SVAA_RF_F020 | Status: M | Title: Maintain validity of Declarations | BSC reference: |
Man/auto: Automatic | Frequency: Monthly | Volumes: |
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Every month after a Declaration is successfully validated SVAA shall repeat the validation originally made for the Declaration. |
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The SVAA shall interface with the following BSC Parties and Systems when performing the relevant SVAA function.
Suppliers
HHDAs
The NETSO
6 Non-functional Requirements
This section specifies the Non-Functional Requirements for the relevant SVAA function, where not covered by existing SVAA non-functional requirements.
Req. No. | Requirement Name | Requirement |
SVAA_RF_N001 | Archiving | Details related to Declarations shall be kept in the system for at least 24 months following the latest EFD. |