MIPI / RG140 Update

Chris Shanley

Agenda

Review Group 140 - Background

MIPI Project - Background

RG140 Principles to be delivered via MIPI

Functionality enhancements

Data Items

MIPI Project Update

Governance Arrangements

RG140 - Background

RG140 – Review of Information Provision on National Grids Information Exchange

Review Group 140 was established May 2007

Establish what Gas/Operational information is published

Assess the relevance of the existing data and identify any new data items

Review Network Code Operations Reporting Manual (NCORM)

Review Group Report issued October 2007

Agreed that current presentation of data items would benefit from change

To reflect these changes NCORM was amended to incorporate a data dictionary approach

Agreed a set of principles to overcome identified issues

Market Information Provision Initiative (MIPI) Project - Background

2 stage approach adopted for replacement of systems and rationalisation of data provision

Phase 1 Transfer key data, effectively all forecast and most after the day

reporting, to a new platform

Provide data based approach rather than reports

Introduce APIs

Phase 2 Transfer remaining data from IE3 and other website systems

Deliver new or revised data requirements resulting from UNC Review Group140

Deliver UNC Mods (219 & 223)

Decommission IE3

MIPI RG140 Deliverables (1)

Functionality enhancements delivered through MIPI (phase 1 & 2)

Users will be able to download their selection of data items over the date range of their choosing

APIs will be supported

The information will use standardised units, e.g. mcm, kWh

Data history will generally be made available for a period of two years

Specific data items, that required to be supported by an extended history, will be accommodated in a different way, or made available on request

If a data item has previous history, e.g. a previous Day’s estimate, this will still be accessible behind current data

Where interim data values were produced, the history will be made available behind the item

MIPI RG140 Deliverables (2)

Data Items

All data items will be produced/published at the earliest possible time/date

Simply derived data, e.g. percentage differences between forecast and actual demand, will not be published if the raw data, on which the calculation was based, is readily available

The RG140 report also highlights some new data items to be included in Gas Market Reporting System (GMRS) and the majority have been included.

MIPI RG140 Deliverables (3)

Data Items - exceptions:

Supply – some data items are subject to a separate iGMS release planned for Summer next year

Prices – National Grid are unable to publish certain pricing data items (hour by hour SAP, SMP buy and SMP sell) as the data is owned by APX and they have not given us permission to do so

RG140 report highlights some new data items suggested by BGT, such as entry and exit pressures

No consensus on the merits of publishing such data items was reached at the time.  As a result National Grid do not plan to make any changes in this regard

MIPI Phase 2 Implementation

Phase 2 of the MIPI will be implemented mid November. Users will be affected in the following way:

• Outage to the MIPI System – 14th November 2009 19:00 to 15th November 07:00: This affects

• Prevailing View

• Data Item Explorer

• Reports Explorer

• From Sunday 15th November 2009 – All IE3 Reports will be discontinued and the data in them will be available in the Data Item / Report Explorer format

• Historical IE3 Reports and the data published in this format will be available via Data Item and Report Explorer format

MIPI Changes

The Way You Access Information Will Change

Please ensure the right people in your organisations are aware of the changes

MIPI Customer Helpline

09:00 – 16:00, Monday to Friday

Voicemail Service Out of Hours

Most queries will be answered immediately

90% within 1 hour

Standard response time < 24hrs

Complex queries <= 10 working days

E mail service : Sysop.centre.reporting@uk.ngrid.com

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Governance Arrangements

Where changes are implemented on the National Grid Gas website, the Uniform Network Code Operations Reporting Manual needs to be updated and submitted for approval by the UNCC and the UK Link Committee will be informed. 

Activity                                                                                            Date

Data Dictionary will be updated to reflect the MIPI changes 2 Oct        

Submit updated UNC Operations Reporting Manual to UNCC            7 Oct

UK Link Committee* 8 Oct

UNCC Meeting                                                                          15 Oct

Users Notified                                                                            16 Oct

MIPI Phase 2 Go-Live 16 Nov

* NG NTS will only be notifying the UKL Committee of the proposed changes submitted to the UNCC but will provide a more detailed update in November if requested