Change Control Process
The Commission for Energy Regulation decided that one aspect of the role of the Design Administrator will be the Support and Coordination of the change management process for the retail market. This includes:
- Facilitating raising of change requests
- Proposing alternatives
- Impact assessment for central market systems
- Understanding and reporting on impacts on supplier systems
- Analysing issues in market operation
- Proposing changes to remedy these.
- Defect Resolution Requests
- Design Discussion Requests
- Market Change Requests
Change Control Process
Defect Resolution Requests
A Defect Resolution Request should be raised to propose an agreed working procedure or a correction to one or more of the base-lined market design documents covered by this process, depending on the impact of the defect.
Where a consensus is achieved then the resolution of the defect is accepted or rejected in accordance with the consensus Where there is not consensus then the CER will be requested to provide a ruling.
Approved Defect Resolution Requests will immediately form part of the Retail Market Design baseline.
Completed Defect Resolution Requests will be presented and reviewed at the IGG.
Click here to view Defect Resolution RequestsDesign Discussion Requests
The CER, Industry Participants or RMDS may initiate a change to one or more of the base-lined market design documents covered by the change control process. The first step in this process is for the initiating party to complete a Design Discussion Request.
RMDS will distribute completed IGG Design Discussion Requests to IGG at least 2 working days prior to the IGG meeting. Completed IGG Design Discussion Requests will be reviewed at IGG where it will be decided whether a Change Request needs to be raised. An impact assessment is carried out to determine whether a change request is desirable and can be implemented.
Based on the impact assessment RMDS will determine if there is a consensus from the affected participants on the adoption of the change.
RMDS will draft a recommendation for acceptance or rejection with the reasons for the recommendation and, if the recommendation is for acceptance, a proposed implementation priority and plan.
Click here to raise a new discussion request online
Please click here to view Discussion Requests.
Market Change Requests
Once a design discussion request has been accepted, the Design Administrator, working in conjunction with the requesting party, shall be responsible for ensuring that a Market Change Request (MCR) is issued. Market participants will receive the MCR within 2 working days after the IGG meeting where it was decided that a Market Change Request should be raised.
Market Change Request Template
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Click here to see the list of un-implemented Market Change Requests.
