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ReMCoWG Meeting Minutes
Date: 3rd March 2021 Time & Location 13:00 Conference Call
Chair: Lindsay Sharpe – ReMCoDS
Attendees: Name Location
Alice Mooney ReMCoDS
Lisa Fahy (Observer) CRU
John Bracken, Alan Keegan, Siobhan Melvin, Carl Murphy
ESBN
Catherine Leen
Gemma McHale, Joan-Edel Smith, Kris Kennedy NIE Networks
Simon Fox-Mella Gemserv
Mark Phelan Electric Ireland
Graham Hunter Power NI
Lauren Encott, Cian Fitzgerald Energia
Niall Cooley Bright Energy
Eoin McGurk BGE
Megan Nolan Naturgy
Aaron Currie SSE Airtricity
Jessica Gregory Community Power
Niall Kelly Click Energy
Jessica Gregory Iberdrola
Apologies:
Version
1.0
Number
Status Draft
Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. ReMCoSG Meeting Feedback
3. Actions from Previous ReMCoWG
4. Actions – New ReMCoWG Actions
5. Retail Market Design Update
6. De-harmonisation Update
7. ESBN/NIE Networks Update
8. CRU SMART Metering Update
9. Next Steps & AOB
Page 2 of 61. Introduction
L Sharpe enquired if everyone was happy to sign off and approve the Minutes of the last Working Group
on 13th January 2021.
All Agreed.
Minutes Approved.
ReMCoDS issued a link with the meeting details for MPs to see the slides.
2. ReMCoSG Meeting Feedback
L Sharpe presented the ReMCoSG Meeting Update.
There has been one ReMCoSG Meetings since the last ReMCoWG on 17th February 2021.
Refer to slide for full details.
The next ReMCoSG Meeting is scheduled for 19th May 2021.
3. Actions – Previous ReMCoWG
L Sharpe provided the Action Items Update.
There are no open ReMCoWG Actions.
4. Actions – New ReMCoWG Actions
No new Actions were logged at this meeting.
5. Retail Market Design Update
L Sharpe provided the Retail Market Design Update.
V13.00.00 Market Release - Update
L Sharpe presented slides on the V13.00.00 Market Release.
She presented slides on the Scope, Market Release Plan, and V13.00.00 Market Release Documents (This
release was also discussed at the IGG which preceded this forum).
Refer to slides for full details.
Page 3 of 6L Sharpe reported that the cutover to v13.00.00 schema took place on the weekend 12 th to 15th February
2021. She thanked MPs for their support on that weekend. RMDS has now implemented the seven MCRs
that made up that package in the release. We are reaching the end of the Plan on the page which is great
to see. In ROI Smart Data Services became available last Friday 26th February 2021.
V13.00.00 Market Release Documents
All v13.00.00 market documentation and the CoBL has been updated and is available on the RMDS
website. RMDS sent out an email detailing this along with a summary of the final amendments that were
made since the last re-versioning activity which took place on 2nd September 2020.
In NI, the hypercare calls have finished. In ROI, hypercare calls for Smart Data Services are taking place
every morning at 10:00 at the moment.
Outages
• There are no outages scheduled for March as of yet.
• Full outage details are available, as usual, on the RMDS Website.
6. De-harmonisation Update
L Sharpe reported that from an RMDS point of view, there will be a separate workstream ongoing for the
governance part of the system separation project. It will look at how the change control process and market
forums will all work. RMDS will give MPs updates on this as the project moves along.
G McHale presented slides on system separation in Section 7 ESBN/NIE Networks Update.
7. ESBN/NIE Networks Update
G McHale & K Kennedy presented the ESBN/NIE Networks Update.
System Separation Project Update
G McHale presented slides on System Separation Project Update.
Refer to slides for details.
G McHale reported that ESBN & NIE Networks issued the market plan to all Suppliers on 24th February
2021. The plan is also available on the RMDS website. There are a few key activities that will require
attention between now and the end of April:
ESBN & NIE Networks issued the EMMA specification and Technical Questionnaire documents to
Suppliers on 26th February 2021. The EMMA Specification is specifically for the dual Suppliers and the
technical questionnaire is for all Suppliers.
Page 4 of 6NIE Networks and ESBN are currently reviewing the webforms “Look & Feel” Overview document which will
be issued to MPs this week on 5th March 2021. NIE Networks and ESBN are not changing the functionality
of the webforms and is very much trying to keep the look and feel very similar to what Suppliers currently
have. It is just a different solution and the database will be the same. It will give Suppliers early visibility of
how that will look and will provide that reassurance. If there are any comments on the webforms that
Suppliers would like to provide. NIE Networks and ESBN will give instructions how to do that whenever it
issues the document out itself.
Both assurance bodies in NI and ROI jurisdictions have been mobilised. They are currently looking to work
through the assurance approach. That will be developed and approved by the RAs by 9th April 2021.
ReMCoDS will issue this out the MPs directly after that approval.
The other key activity is that NIE Networks asks that dual MPs’ infrastructure/environments must be ready
for their EMMA deployment by 30th April 2021.
There are three elements to this project, and NIE Networks and ESBN have called out the particular areas
as we move through the plan, i.e. system separation and moving to the new hub for dual Suppliers, the
upgrade of the TIBCO components and the webforms. NIE Networks and ESBN will continue to provide
updates in terms of the progress throughout the project, what the key activities are and the next activities
that are due. NIE Networks and ESBN will call out what resources will be required from a Supplier
perspective so there will be separate reports from a market assurance point of view. NIE Networks and
ESBN has asked for technical contacts to be made available. These technical contacts will receive all the
information and will be able to engage directly with Atos in terms of any requirements e.g. access to
Suppliers’ environments to be able to carry out activities. There will be continuous engagement as we work
through the project itself.
TIBCO Outages
K Kennedy presented slides on TIBCO Outages
Refer to slides for details.
K Kennedy reported that we are seeing a reduction in the number of unplanned outages which is good.
They are starting to come down to more normal levels compared to what would have been seen in the
earlier part of last year. It is good to see them moving in the right direction.
In February there were eighteen unplanned Supplier outages. There was one Supplier contributing to a lot
of those outages.
8. CRU Smart Metering Update
L Fahy provided a SMART Metering update.
• Deployment of Smart Meters is still on hold as a result of Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions. ESBN will be
monitoring closely the Government advice supposed to come in April to see about recommencing
deployment.
• V13.00.00 went live since our last meeting which was a great achievement for everyone involved. She
thanked MPs for that. CRU is now looking at phase 2 planning and functionality over the next year to
eighteen months.
• From a CRU perspective, it is progressing policy decisions for Smart in March, i.e. Smart PAYG and
also guidance on the primer.
Page 5 of 69. Next Steps & AOB
No AOB was raised.
J Bracken thanked MPs and said he appreciated all the support and help over the last number of weeks
as v13.00.00 went live. It was a major milestone and he wants to note and record the appreciation from
ESBN to everybody on the call.
Next ReMCoWG:
• Wednesday 28th April 2021 was due to be in Dublin but can safely assume that we will be holding
the meeting virtually.
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