On 24 January 2024 the Change Board voted to approved the Alternative Solution of this modification under Self-Governance. The legal text has been implemented in the February 2024 SEC Release (29 February 2024), with the Customer Analytics Reporting to be available by 31 December 2024.
What is the issue?
The current SEC reporting regime provides SEC Parties with an industry-wide level of reporting. This does not provide Parties with a view of their own performance, how they compare with other SEC Parties, or the ability to simply diagnose factors (Devices, Firmware, Geographic Location, Orchestration) that could be affecting their performance against key business processes.
As not all SEC Parties have the reporting capabilities to assess their own performance against these key metrics, they have a reduced ability to drive improvement within their own businesses and in their interactions with the DCC. The DCC is also less able to assist them in doing so. This results in continued poor performance, and poor data quality, which can affect any other DCC Users those Parties interact with. The inability to identify areas of concern can lead to delays in industry processes and have financial and reputational costs across all Parties.
What is the solution?
The Proposed Solution is to mandate the DCC to provide a standardised reporting suite to its Users in a static Portable Document Format (PDF) / Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file format.
The Alternative Solution would deliver the same reporting but would deliver the data via an interactive customer portal, allowing for more dynamic analysis.
Who is impacted?
DCC
All SEC Parties
What SEC documents are affected?
Section H ‘DCC Services’
Timeline
08Jul2021
Draft Proposal raised
27Jul2021
Presented to Change Sub-Committee for initial comment
This is the April 2024 SEC Modifications Working Group meeting, where we will be discussing: MP085B ‘Synchronisation of Smart Meter voltage measurement periods (meters currently installed)’ MP244 ‘Device Alerts
This is the April 2024 SEC Issues Group meeting, where we discussed: PPM continuity plan Please see the meeting summary here: SEC Issues Group Meeting Summary - April 2024 (CLEAR)
This is the May 2024 SEC Modifications Working Group meeting, where we will be discussing: MP235 'Enhanced Meter Data Access for Other Users' Please see the meeting documentation here:
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