User Requirements Specification: Balancing Mechanism Reporting Agent

This User Requirements Specification forms the input to the System Specification for the BMRA Service. The System Specification constitutes the definition of the computer system requirements to be built in support of the BMRA Services.

The objective of this document is to provide a complete specification of the requirements that the BMRA service must meet, from the users’ point of view. For this purpose, the “users” include Ofgem, the National Electricity Transmission System Operator (NETSO) as the balancing mechanism operator, BSCCo Ltd (as the client), other Service Providers, BSC Parties, and the BMRA Service Provider’s own operators.

This User Requirements Specification forms the input to the System Specification for the BMRA Service. The System Specification constitutes the definition of the computer system requirements to be built in support of the BMRA Services.

The BMRA functional requirements include calculations of derived market data that are much in common with those implemented by the SAA. In order to maintain consistency between both systems, and minimise maintenance costs, common source code shall be applied where appropriate in the SAA and BMRA.