Issue 343, 11 April 2011
Coming up this week
12 April
Unmetered Supplies User Group at 10am
13 April
Supplier Agents' Forum at 10.30am
14 April
BSC Panel at 10am
14 April
Software Technical Advisory Group at 12pm
15 April
Cross-Codes Electricity Forum at 10am
New Market Index Data Provider
NasdaqOMX Stockholm AB began operating as a Market Index Data Provider (MIDP) on Tuesday 5 April . This means that there are now two MIDPs operating in the GB electricity market. Please see the Market Index Definition
Statement for details.
From Tuesday 12 April , the date of the Interim Information Settlement Run for Settlement Day 5 April, the SAA-
I014 “Settlement Report” will contain separate entries for each MIDP.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Jonna Piipponen on 020 7380 4209.
ELEXON attended the Future of Utilities conference and Smart Metering Forum at the end of last month. As part of

the event, we presented our thoughts on ‘The Future of Settlement’ and discussed how smart metering will impact the settlement processes we manage on behalf of the industry.
As part of our preparations for the move to a smart world, we’re assessing a wide range of issues – for example, how settlement can facilitate new innovative consumer tariffs both now and in the future. We’ve published our views on this topic in our article on ‘Smarter Settlement – making the most out of tariff innovation’ , which highlights how smart metering could help smooth demand and support increased use of time of use tariffs.
You can keep up to speed with our views, news and information about smart metering on our website or contact our team at smart@elexon.co.uk
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Today’s the closing date for registrations for this event. We still have spaces left, so if you or a colleague would like to attend then don’t forget to:
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Register here to attend in person at ELEXON’s London office; or
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Email modifications@elexon.co.uk
if you’d like to participate remotely by webinar.
ELEXON and National Grid will be giving a plain English guide to all current BSC, Connection and Use of System
Code (CUSC) and Grid Code changes. Topics also include an overview of the European Network Code development process, and an update on the Government’s response to the Smart Prospectus consultation.
Last month we invited Suppliers and Supplier Agents to take part in Participant Testing, and we received a great response from many of you.
To continue monitoring Industry performance and calculating your performance related charges correctly, it is essential that as many test participants take part as possible. It is a great opportunity especially for Supplier
Agents to test their systems as most of the CP1334 changes affect them.
There is still time to register. You have until Wednesday 20 April to register by contacting Mahesh Gogtay on 020
7380 4215 or emailing releases@elexon.co.uk
. Testing is planned from Tuesday 3 May to Friday 13 May and then again from Tuesday 31 May to Friday 10 June .
Further details are published on the June 11 Release section of our website or alternatively, please contact Mahesh
Gogtay on 020 7380 4215 or email releases@elexon.co.uk
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The next scheduled BSC Panel meeting is on Thursday 14 April 2011 and will start at 10am at ELEXON's offices ,
350 Euston Road, London, NW1 3AW.
All agenda items will be held in open session (except confidential items) and representatives of BSC Parties may attend. Visit the BSC Panel Meeting section of the website to view the meeting papers.
If you have any queries, email Megan Bennie . If you want to view the meeting by video conference, please notify
Megan by 5pm on Tuesday 12 April .

We’ve made some fresh updates to our website in the last couple of weeks, alongside the work we are doing to investigate and improve on page load times.
For myELEXON users, we have added two new features:
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You can set up email notifications so you know when content is changed on certain pages
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(as opposed to document changes)
You can add certain pages to your ‘myFavourites’ list
These are both enabled in your myELEXON homepage, and over the next few weeks you’ll start to see the icons appearing around the site on pages where you can use either of these features. Look out for these icons in the upper right of the page:
A new layout for the BSC & Related Documents page is in place. This means it should load faster, and you can also create a myELEXON document notification for all BSC Sections at once rather than each individual document. We also have temporary replacement pages in place for the Meetings & Papers section to help improve load times.
We've added two new pages to Technical Operations :
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Supplier Hub Operations , where you’ll find the set of guidance notes and information sheets related to SVA
● and the data held by Suppliers, Supplier Agents and Supplier Meter Registration Agents
Metering - an introduction to Metering Systems, including the pages for Metering Dispensations,
Aggregation Rules and Trading Units, and Technical Assurance of Metering Systems
Lastly, the Market Entry Communications Line Request Form is now an online form instead of a paper form, and
Release Circulars can now be viewed by CVA, SVA, or both types.
We are also looking into a solution, with help from Microsoft, as to why some users get a pop-up window when they click to open MS Office documents on our website.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact communications@elexon.co.uk
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Estimated Annual Consumption (EAC) / Annual Advances (AA)
At its April meeting the TDC made its final decision on whether to authorise the Post-Final Settlement Runs (PFSRs) for Settlement Days 1-31 January 2009 .
The TDC authorised PFSRs for the Settlement Days 1-31 January 2009 for all GSP Groups currently in the
Disputes process.
The table below summarises the TDC’s decisions on PFSRs for the stated Settlement Days, indicating whether

PFSRs were authorised or not.
GSP Group
Eastern
East Midlands
London
Merseyside & North Wales
Midlands
Northern
North Western
Southern
South Eastern
South Wales
South Western
Yorkshire
January 2009
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
Not in process
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
Authorised
South Scotland Not in process
North Scotland Not in process
Trading Dispute
The TDC heard one Trading Dispute:
Trading Dispute DA389: This Dispute related to an EAC submitted without a decimal place, overstating a site’s consumption by a factor of one million. The TDC determined that the Dispute was raised in accordance with the
Dispute Deadline, that a Settlement Error had occurred, and therefore upheld the Dispute. The TDC determined that rectification should be by means of a PFSR Correction.
Extra Settlement Determination (ESD) Methodology for Trading Disputes DA348 and DA360: The
TDC agreed the ESD to correct the disputed periods not covered by PFSR for DA348 and DA360.
Dispute Follow up: The TDC requested that ELEXON/Third Party carry out an exercise to reconcile the
Aggregation Rules associated with CVA sites to site plans to confirm their accuracy.
For more information, please contact disputes@elexon.co.uk
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Since Monday 4 April , we have published one ELEXON Circular.
The Circular was for information and related to:
EL01878 : Default Share Amount and Re-Distribution - Due to a Payment Default by MA Energy Ltd you may receive a “Default Share Amount” on today’s Advice Note. Funds have been received from MA Energy Ltd after today’s
Advice Notes were generated. Funds will be redistributed through a “Refund Amount” on the Advice Note on Friday
8 April 2011 .

Circulars are published in the News section of the ELEXON website.
26 April - Imbalance Settlement Group
28 April - Performance Assurance Board
3 May - Supplier Volume Allocation Group
If you have any feedback on Newscast or any of our other publications, please email communications@elexon.co.uk
Please note that due to ongoing website updates, the links in Newscast may no longer work if accessed at a later date.
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