MP230 ‘Review the SLA for delivery and completion for SMETS1 firmware’
Summary: MP230 proposes to clarify that if a firmware image for a SMETS1 Device is larger than 750kB and the User wants to send a batch larger than 500 images per day, the User needs to contact the DCC through the DCC Service Desk to coordinate and agree on a delivery schedule.
Refinement Consultation link: here
Who should respond: we invite all SEC Parties to respond
Deadline for responses: 19 April 2024
MP261 ‘Extending the Organisation Certificate Validity Period’
Summary: MP261 will allow the DCC to use Organisation Certificates for more than 10 years. This will reduce the number of new manufacturing packs needed in the next 20 years.
MRC link: here
Who should respond: we invite all SEC Parties to respond
Deadline for responses: Monday 15 January 2024
MP256 ‘SEC Alignment with DCC SMETS1 MHHS Capacity Requirements’
Summary: MP256 proposes to outline in the SEC how the DCC will process SMETS1 Devices in line with Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement requirements.
MRC link: here
Who should respond: we invite all SEC Parties to respond
Deadline for responses: Monday 15 January 2024
MP176 ‘Customer Analytics Reporting’
Summary: MP176’s Proposed Solution would 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.
MRC link: here
Who should respond: we invite all SEC Parties to respond
Deadline for responses: Monday 15 January 2024
MP243 ‘CHTS v1.1 and GBCS v2.1 Installation End Date and Maintenance End Date’
Summary: MP243 proposes to extend the Installation Validity Period for Communications Hubs which have been manufactured to CHTS v1.1 and GBCS v2.1 by 24 months. This will alter the Installation End Date from 30 April 2024 to 30 April 2026.
RC link: here
Who should respond: all SEC Parties should respond
Deadline for responses: 31 August 2023
MP245 ‘SMKI Document Set Changes 2023’
Summary: MP245 proposes to address minor inconsistencies and misalignments between SMKI documentation and processes.
MRC link: here
Who should respond: all SEC Parties should respond
Deadline for responses: 7 September 2023
MP167B ‘Review of SEC documents (DCC Internal Systems change governance)’
Summary: MP167B proposes to define the Programme Assurance Policy, and reference the document in the SEC. This will obligate the DCC to adhere to the document when it is initiating a project or programme with potential DCC User impacts.
MRC link: here
Who should respond: All SEC Parties
Deadline for responses: 7 September 2023
MP202 ‘Enduring Solution for SMETS1 and SMETS2+ PPMIDs’:
The Smart Energy Code (SEC) currently differentiates between Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications (SMETS) 1 and SMETS2+ Devices and is drafted in a manner so that a Device can be either SMETS1 or SMETS2+, but not both. Therefore, the DCC Systems are designed on the premise that the Devices are exclusively either SMETS1 or SMETS2+ Devices. The DCC has several Users who have indicated they would like to use the same Pre-Payment Interface Device (PPMID) for both SMETS1 and SMETS2+ purposes
Who should respond?
Related Documents
Please find the consultation document here.
How to respond
Please use the response template and contact sec.change@gemserv.com by 5pm 12 July 2023.
MP168 ‘CPL Security Improvements’
Smart Energy Code (SEC) Appendix Z ‘CPL Requirements Document’ requires the Panel to check that a communication requesting a firmware Image to be associated with a Device Model on the Central Products List (CPL) originates from the person who created the Image and is endorsed by a Supplier. At present, the nature of the signatures used by manufacturers do not enable cryptographic authentication that the communication originates from a specific manufacturer beyond reasonable doubt. Neither a Supplier nor the Panel can therefore suitably verify the authenticity of the communication and therefore fully meet the SEC obligation.
Who should respond?
Related Documents
Please find the consultation document here.
How to respond
Please use the response template and contact sec.change@gemserv.com by 5pm 12 July 2023.
MP169 ‘Managing SEC Obligations and the Consumer’s Right to refuse a Smart Meter’
The consumer has a right to refuse a Smart Meter. Suppliers are unable to comply with consumer requests to install a smart meter in ‘dumb’ mode. The SEC does not allow for the Devices on the Smart Metering Inventory to be either installed and not commissioned (this is a transient state and not an enduring one) or to fit the meters without also fitting the DCC provided Communications Hub (as reference above in Gas and Electricity Supply Licence Condition 54.9). There is no concept, by design, of fitting a smart meter in ‘dumb’ mode.
Who should respond?
Related Documents
Please find the consultation document here.
How to respond
Please use the response template and contact sec.change@gemserv.com by 5pm 28 June 2023.
