List of all BSC Modifications
This pages list all Modifications issued since 2010. Modification are raised to introduce changes that would alter any part of the BSC or any CSDs or BSC Systems impacted by the proposed changes.
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P777: Alex’s test Modification
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Test Modification P500
P463 ‘Test Post’
P454 ‘Removal of BSC obligations to provide BMRS Data via TIBCO and the High Grade Service’
This Modification would remove the existing requirement within BSC Section V ‘Reporting’ for the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Agent (BMRA) to provide BMR Service (BMRS) data via the legacy High Grade Service, otherwise referred to as the TIBCO service.
P451 ‘Updating BSC Black Start provisions and compensation arrangements’
P451 seeks to facilitate the implementation of NGESO’s new approach to Black Start, termed System Restoration. In doing so, it proposes to update all BSC references to “Black Start” to “System Restoration”, and enable contracted Restoration Service Providers who are non-BSC parties to claim BSC Black Start compensation.
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P450: Alex’s mod test
P445 ‘Improving efficiency of Default Funding Share process and Energy Supply Company Administration’
This Modification seeks to allow the Funds Administration Agent (FAA) to process a Default Funding Share for unpaid Trading Charges earlier to reduce the cost of the borrowing facility and reduce the risk of shortfall. The Modification will also allow the Panel to instruct the FAA to release Trading Charges where the default relates to an Energy Supply Company Administration (ESCA).
P442 ‘Reporting chargeable volumes for exempt and licensed supply’
This Modification seeks to allow correct reporting of chargeable volumes to the EMRS company for SVA Metering Systems that record both exempt supply and licensed supply through the addition of a new third party role, the “Exempt Supply Calculation Agent”.
P440 ‘Enabling Elexon to administer the Capacity Market Advisory Group’
The BSC does not currently allow Elexon to undertake administrative activities that would support the Capacity Market Advisory Group (CMAG). This does not align to Ofgem’s decision to appoint Elexon to undertake the CMAG administrative activities on its behalf. This Modification should enable Elexon as the BSCCo to conduct the administrative process work for the CMAG, on a not for profit basis, that Ofgem is awarding to Elexon (subject to this Modification) per its decision dated 9 May 2022..
P433 ‘P375-P420 Legal Text Alignment’
P433 seeks to ensure that the Legal Text for Approved Modification P375 ‘Settlement of Secondary BM Units using metering behind the site Boundary Point’ is aligned with the BSC baseline introduced by the implementation of P420 ‘Retail Code Consolidation Significant Code Review’. This Modification will correct a number of manifest errors introduced into the P375 legal text by P420 and will therefore allow the implementation of the P375 Legal Text in the BSC on the P375 Implementation Date.
P432 ‘Half Hourly Settlement for CT Advanced Metering Systems’
This Modification proposes to align the BSC definition of an Advanced Meter with that in the Standard License Conditions (SLC) and to set explicit Half Hourly (HH) Settlement obligations for Current Transformer (CT) Advanced Meters ahead of the migration to Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS).
P431: Post Brexit Agreement Updates
P431 proposes has no impact on the operation of the BSC – they are, essentially, administrative changes only.
P430: Allow Suppliers to use metering behind the site Boundary Point
P430 seeks to extend the solution to approved Modification P375 ‘Settlement of Secondary BM Units using metering behind the site Boundary Point’ to allow Suppliers to register Asset Meters and allocate Asset Metering System Identifier (AMSID) Pairs to Secondary Balancing Mechanism (BM) Units.
The Proposer believes this would address an unintended distortion in the market and enable the wider provision of Balancing Services to the system by enabling Suppliers to use metering equipment “behind” the defined Boundary Point for Settlement purposes.
The P375 solution will only allow Asset Metering Virtual Lead Parties (AMVLPs) to register Asset Metering Systems in order to obtain AMSID Pairs and to allocate those AMSID Pairs to Secondary Balancing Mechanism Units (SBMUs).
It is the Proposer’s view that the P375 solution is incomplete and should be extended to also apply to Suppliers to avoid a distortion in the market that gives one industry Party role an advantage over another, when both can provide Balancing Services from behind the Meter.
P429: Switching off Participant-Reported PARMS Serials
This Modification would cease the operation of, and remove the obligations associated with,
participant-reported Performance Assurance Reporting and Monitoring System (PARMS)
Serials and associated Supplier Charges.
P427 ‘Publication of Performance Assurance Parties’ impact on Settlement Risk’
This Modification seeks to amend BSC Section Z to allow the Performance Assurance Board (PAB) to recommend that the Panel publish notices to industry in respect of Performance Assurance Parties’ (PAPs’) contribution to Settlement Risk along with relevant risk data.
P426 ‘Credit cover calculation simplified’
This Modification proposes to remove inefficiencies with the Credit Cover calculation by allowing related BSC Parties to combine their Energy Indebtedness prior to calculating the Credit Cover Percentage.
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P420: Retail Code Consolidation Significant Code Review’
this is the page teaser that will appear on the page, on the listing page and on the BSC homepage under the modification section – more stuff here 21/09/2022 – and again later one that same day
P420 ‘Retail Code Consolidation Significant Code Review’
P420 makes the necessary changes to reflect the close down of the Master Registration Agreement (MRA) and the transition of Supplier Volume Allocation (SVA) Metering arrangements from the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) to the Retail Energy Code (REC), as part of the Retail Code Consolidation Significant Code Review (SCR). It also inserts the required drafting to give effect to the new Cross Code Steering Group (CCSG) and cross-code modification arrangements, as part of the SCR.
P419 ‘Enhanced Reporting of Demand Data to the NETSO to facilitate BSUoS Reform’
This Modification seeks to enable BSC Systems to aggregate the Import data of all non-Final Demand sites for exclusion from Balancing Services and Use of System (BSUoS) charges.
P419 ‘Enhanced Reporting of Demand Data to the NETSO to facilitate BSUoS Reform’
This Modification seeks to enable BSC Systems to aggregate the Import data of all non-Final Demand sites for exclusion from Balancing Services and Use of System (BSUoS) charges.
P418: Changes impacting BM Units
P418 aims to ensure the Legal Text for approved BSC Modification P383 properly reflects the approved solution, business requirements, and is aligned with the BSC baseline introduced by P344, P354 and P388. In particular, it will clarify that the solution being delivered by P383 is applicable to both Supplier Base Balancing Mechanism (BM) Units and Additional BM Units.
P417: Move credit templates and insurance products to the BSC Website
[page teaser field]This Modification seeks to remove the Letter of Credit templates and Approved Insurance Product requirements from annexes M1 – M4 of the BSC. The Modification also seeks to place a requirement on Elexon to publish the Letter of Credit templates and Approved Insurance Product requirements on the BSC Website.
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P415 ‘Facilitating access to wholesale markets for flexibility’
Customers (consumers of electricity) who are able to be flexible about their consumption cannot currently obtain any value from that flexibility from the Wholesale Energy Market, except if they work with their Supplier to do so. This is because the BSC assigns all flexibility delivered by a customer to their Supplier, with the exception of flexibility instructed by National Grid in the Balancing Mechanism or Replacement Reserve market (TERRE), which can be assigned to a third party (referred to in the BSC as a “Virtual Lead Party”).
As a result, customers can only access power exchanges (and other markets that require notification of contracts under the BSC) though their Supplier. This contrasts with Balancing Services, the Balancing Mechanism, and the Capacity Market, all of which allow a customer’s flexibility to be offered by an aggregator without the involvement of the Supplier.
P402 ‘Reform of residual network charging’
P402 will introduce new reporting requirements on Licensed Distribution System Operators (LDSOs) and Elexon that will ensure the provision of data to enable the (National Electricity Transmission System Operator) NETSO to set Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) demand residual tariffs and enable accurate billing of subsequent charges.
Following the conclusion of its Targeted Charging Review Significant Code Review , Ofgem directed National Grid and certain LDSOs to make changes to how residual revenues are recovered through Distribution Use of System (DUoS) and TNUoS demand charges.
- More about Ofgem’s charging and access reform
P395 ‘Excluding generators from BM Unit Gross Demand and the calculation of EMR Supplier Charges’
P394 ‘Removal of Unused BSC Provisions’
P393 ‘Disapplication of Supplier Charge SP01’
P392 Amending BSC Change Process for EBGL Article 18
P391 ‘Introducing Desktop Audits’
P390 ‘Allowing extensions to ELEXON’s business and activities, subject to additional conditions’
P389 Resolution of Capacity Market and Balancing Mechanism registration conflicts
P389 will delete BSC Section K paragraph 3.1.8(b) in order to remove conflict between the BSC and Capacity Market rules
P388 ‘Aligning the P344 and P354 Solutions’
P387 ‘Allowing email communications for the BSC Panel Elections process’
This Modification Proposal aims to amend the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Panel Elections process to allow communications between parties via email. Other communication methods could be approved by the BSC Panel on a case-by-case basis.
P386 Corrections to P344 legal text
P385 ‘Improving the efficacy and efficiency of the Section H Default provisions’
P384: The publication of European Electricity Balancing Guideline (EB GL) balancing data by BMRS
P383 ‘Enhanced reporting of demand data to the NETSO to facilitate CUSC Modifications CMP280 and CMP281’
P382 – Amendments to the BSC in the event of no-deal Brexit
The Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) contains multiple references to European Union (EU) legislation and bodies. Additionally, it also contains text introduced as a result of implementing various EU legislation. Retaining these references and text following the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) withdrawal from the EU without a deal (‘no-deal Brexit’) will mean that the BSC is no longer technically accurate but will remain operable because of the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018.
P381: Removal of Quarterly Reports
P380 ‘Revision to Replacement Reserve Bid Data submission deadline requirements’
Modifying the P344 wording of BSC Section Q ‘Balancing Services Activities’ to ensure National Grid ESO’s continued compliance with the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) and the Replacement Reserve Implementation Framework (RRIF).
P379 ‘Multiple Suppliers through Meter Splitting’
P378 ‘Introduction of a CM Supplier Interim Charge’
P377: Amending Gate Closures in Market Index Data
P376 ‘Utilising a Baselining Methodology to set Physical Notifications’
P375 ‘Metering behind the Boundary Point’
Metering behind the Boundary Point