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CER Update. Industry Governance Group 20 th August 2009. Tariffs. Consultations : PES allowed Revenue ; Duos & TUOS Allowed Revenue and charges; ESB CS proposed tariffs from 1 st Oct 2009 to 30th Sept 2010. Publications.
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CER Update Industry Governance Group 20th August 2009
Tariffs Consultations : • PES allowed Revenue ; • Duos & TUOS Allowed Revenue and charges; • ESB CS proposed tariffs from 1st Oct 2009 to 30th Sept 2010.
Publications • CER has published a consultation paper on Debt Blocking on 14th August 2009 • Retail Market Information Report for 2008 to be published this week – contains statistics on overall customer nos, consumption, load profiles, market shares, prices and churn rates.
Smart Metering (1) • Electricity Residential CBT • 5,607 residential meters installed – completed 4th July (5,375 original target increased to negate CoS & CoT fallouts, & replace signal problem sites) • Benchmark data collection period in progress – until 31st Dec 2009 • Socio-economic survey of trial participants in progress. • Decline Letters to issue shortly to “Fallout” customers (CoS / CoT) • New Supplier to issue CoS letters - BGES & Airtricity. • Smart meter remains installed. • Key stakeholders: 94 nominations: 81 installs, 7 cancels, 6 outstanding • Focus group research on ToU tariffs completed 31st July. • ESBCS System Delivery (Billing & Web) in progress. • IHD development in progress (Elster)
Smart Metering (2) • Electricity SME CBT SME Empirical Trial (Single-sites - BGES & ESBCS): • Installations completed 8th July: 756 SME meters installed - 214 BGES & 542 ESBCS (728 original target increased to negate CoS fallouts incurred). • ESBCS System Delivery (Billing & Web) in progress. • BGES System Delivery (Billing) plan to be agreed. SME multi-site case studies (ESBIE): • Installations completed: 16 meters across 4 customers representative of Multi-site users. Only 2 IHD sites. • System Delivery plan being agreed with ESBIE.
Smart Metering (3) • GAS Residential & SME CBT Implementation of Residential CBT: • 1st batch of recruitment invites mailed 7th Aug – positive response rates so far (16%+). • Meter/IHD procurement SME study high level scope agreed at workshop 16th July – case studies (50 meters max.) to supplement British SME findings – detailed scope & timelines to be agreed. • Prepayment - SMSG to review (meeting 20th Aug) ESBCS proposal for development of prepayment “electronic purse” to be used in thin meter proof of concept trial.
Smart Metering (4) Technology Trials • Distributed Line Carrier (DLC) trial (Sagem) – c.2,000 meters in Limerick & Ennis. Infrastructure in place & being tested. Meter installations began 7th Aug 2009. • Radio Frequency (RF) 2.4GHz trial (Trilliant) - to begin end-Aug 2009 involving c.1,500 meters in Cork city & Bandon. • RF 868MHz trial (Elster) – Dublin South / Wicklow. Review underway with Elster – likely that installations in Dublin will be postponed to Jan 2010 to incorporate new release of Elster product more suitable to urban environment. • Power Line Carrier (PLC) trial (Aclara) – desktop study proceeding – due to conclude October 2009. • Final report due June 2010 – template reviewed by CER 2nd Apr. • HL Scope of gas technical trial requirements agreed 22nd Apr – detailed scope being progressed between BGN, ESBN & CER.
CER actions - To provide explanation for the decision to have a 3-month lock down period as part of the SOLR event
Switching • There have been 221,200 switches (MRSO data)