Attendees: / RMDS – Oonagh Delaney, Susan Morrissey, Elaine Duffy
ESB IE – Bernadette Jennings
CER – Maurice Stack
MRSO – Aileen O’Connor
Airtricity – Liam O’Riain, Rachel Elmes, Karen Cahill
ESBN – Mary Mulcahy
Vayu – David Gascon
Apologies:
Agenda:
/ Actions from previous call
/ Update on Market issues
/ MRSO Update
/ Meter Operator Update
/ Market Design Update (incl. Clarifications / learning points)
/ Notice board Planned Maintenance, Reminders from IGG, etc.
/ MPCC Discussion
/ AOB.
1. Actions from Previous Call
477 / Discussion of MCR 0170 – New web service v3.0 is tabled for the agenda of the IGG meeting on 16th April 2009
This action is closed
478 / Discussion of DR 0162 – Small Supplier Threshold is tabled for the agenda of the IGG meeting on 16th April 2009
This action is closed
479 / BGE and RMDS to discuss options around MP Extranet unavailability at Easter weekend – solved by database extract disc being issued to all market participants
This action is closed
442 / RMDS to finalise WP 017 (SoLR) and issue as DR ahead of the next IGG meeting.
This action is Carried Forward.
2. Update on Market issues
There was no Market Issues Update.
3. MRSO Update
There was no MRSO Update.
4. Meter Operator Update
There was no Meter Operator Update.
5. Market Design Update
Three Discussion Requests were brought forward from the IGG: DR 166 (Incomplete set of reads), DR 169 (New reject reasons for address changes) and DR 170 (E-mail address validation).
At the last IGG, RMDS requested these be moved forward to Market Change Requests at this Conference Call.
O. Delaney requested approval of the DRs. D. Gascon said Vayu approved. B. Jennings said the DRs were reasonable and sensible and ESBIE also approved progression to MCR
K.Cahill asked what that the next steps would be for these DRs. O. Delaney replied that the DRs were just going to be re-issued as Market Change Requests and they would be ready for approval at the next IGG on the 28th May 2009. K. Cahill asked if the priority of the MCRs for the November Market Release would be left as high, medium and low and whether any of these DRs could be considered for inclusion in the November Market Release. O. Delaney replied that the content of the November Market Release would be finalised in the middle of June and if any participant had strong views as to whether any of these DRs should be considered for the November Market Release, they should send an e-mail to RMDSoutlining their views. K. Cahill replied that as DR 166 was initiated by Airtricity, they would like it to be considered for inclusion in the November Market Release because Airtricity have gone to the mass market now, so partial reads will become a bigger issue for MRSO and Airtricity. O. Delaney said RMDS would need an e-mail to that effect as Theresa O’ Neill and RMDS are co-ordinating the content of the November Market Release.
6. Notice board: Planned Maintenance, Reminders from IGG etc
There were no items for the noticeboard.
7. MPCC Discussion
RMDS had been asked to include this item on the agenda for this Conference Call by Airtricity and O. Delaney asked if they would like to speak on this issue.
L.O’Riain said that Airtricity had been experiencing some maintenance and housekeeping difficulties with the MPCC architecture recently. Airtricity had a discussion about 12 - 14 months ago with Rory Bland and his team where they expressed the opinion that the MPCC architecture should move on to at least a SQL database architecture from access database. Airtricity would like to progress or see being progressed that there be a re-design and are-architecture of the MPCC because they do not believe there is long term stability on the maintainability of the MPCC within Access in the long run.
B. Jennings said that she recalled a presentation from Colm Gaffney (ex RMDS) talking about the technology and that some of the team supporting ESB Networks are looking at different technologies; perhaps a pull rather than a push system.
O.Delaney replied that RMDS are aware there are discussions within ICT about this technology but are not at liberty to discuss this now. She added that Conor Garrigan has said that possibly that at the July IGG, there might be something definitive to say on this issue but RMDS don’t want to pre-empt anything that is being actively considered at the moment.
B.Jennings replied that RMDS had looked for input from ESB IE on this issue but she thought they were in the middle of SEM at that point.
L. O’Riain said that the point on pull or pushoption was a significant part of the conversation they had with the ICT team and Airtricity were of the opinion it should a pull rather than a push when you consider Smart Metering and what you might want to take into an organisation. He asked if any other market participants were having any difficulties or concerns about the housekeeping or maintenance of the MPCC.
B. Jennings replied their MPCC worked quite well; the only issue they had is that it is on a Windows 2000 machine so that’s nearing end-of-life, but otherwise it has worked fine.
D.Gascon said they had some issues getting the MPCC software to run especially as they didn’t have any support on Windows XP or beyond Windows 2000 so that was difficult to sort out but once they got the system operating, it is working fine. They would like to see a more robust system or newer technology implemented.
L.O’Riain said there didn’t seem to be any disapproval and there appeared to be general support for what Airtircity are suggesting be implemented.B. Jennings said that she understood that this was already being considered and to let ICT know the market participants are interested in having this issue pursued.
L. O’Riain said that he would like to have this message related back to Rory Bland and the ICT team and he added that it would be great to open up communication on this issue and get the status of the initiative, and that Airtricity would be happy to engage in discussions, planning etc. of the initiative as soon as possible.
O.Delaney agreed and said it was very useful to get that feedback and it would be taken forward.
8. AOB
There were no items raised.
Action Items
Description / Assigned to / Due DateActions Carried Forward:
442 / RMDS to finalise WP 017 (SoLR) and issue as DR ahead of the next IGG meeting. / RMDS / 11th Dec 2008
Description / Assigned to / Due Date
New Action Items:
488 / ProgressDR 166, to Market Change Request for the next IGG meeting / RMDS / 28th May 2009
489 / Progress DR 169 to Market Change Request for the next IGG meeting / RMDS / 28th May 2009
490 / Progress DR 170 to Market Change Request for the next IGG meeting / RMDS / 28th May 2009
491 / Report to Hub Team on MPCC Discussion / RMDS / 28th May 2009
Next Conference Call:
Proposed Date
Thursday 18th June 2009 @ 3.00pm
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Next IGG Meeting:
Thursday 28th May at CER offices, Exchange Hall, Belgard Square, Tallaght.