MP166 Adverse Weather Planned Maintenance Process

Proposer Darren Robbins
Lead Analyst SEC Change
Date raised 01/06/2021
StageWithdrawn
Implementation date Not yet determined
Latest update On 14 June 2023, the Proposer stated that they have decided to withdraw the Modification Proposal, in accordance with the Right to Withdraw provisions in SEC Section D5.1. Due to the high costs returned in the Preliminary Assessment, the Proposer has decided to explore alternative solutions which do not require a SEC modification.

What is the issue?

High Impact Planned Maintenance includes activities that directly affect any DCC Services involving end-to-end communications. The disruption of these will impact on consumers as well as Smart Energy Code (SEC) Parties. Currently there is no defined process that enables DCC to postpone High Impact Planned Maintenance activities due to adverse weather conditions.

Who is impacted?

DCC
Electricity Network Parties
Large Suppliers
Small Suppliers

What SEC documents are affected?

SEC Section H - DCC Services

Timeline

01 Jun 2021
Draft Proposal raised
27 Jul 2021
Converted to Modification Proposal
10 Sep 2021
DCC Preliminary Assessment

Modification documents

MP166 Modification Report v0.5
13/06/2023
MP166 DCC Preliminary Assessment
25/11/2021
MP166 Working Group summary - September 2021
24/09/2021
MP166 Business Requirements v0.2
10/09/2021
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