1. Industry Governance Group 20th August 2009
CER Update
Industry Governance Group
20th August 2009

2. Tariffs Consultations : PES allowed Revenue ;
Duos & TUOS Allowed Revenue and charges;
ESB CS proposed tariffs from 1st Oct 2009 to 30th Sept 2010.

3. Publications
CER has published a consultation paper on Debt Blocking on 14th August 2009
Retail Market Information Report for 2008 to be published this week – contains statistics on overall customer nos, consumption, load profiles, market shares, prices and churn rates.

4. Smart Metering (1) Electricity Residential CBT
5,607 residential meters installed – completed 4th July (5,375 original target increased to negate CoS & CoT fallouts, & replace signal problem sites)
Benchmark data collection period in progress – until 31st Dec 2009
Socio-economic survey of trial participants in progress.
Decline Letters to issue shortly to “Fallout” customers (CoS / CoT)
New Supplier to issue CoS letters - BGES & Airtricity.
Smart meter remains installed.
Key stakeholders: 94 nominations: 81 installs, 7 cancels, 6 outstanding
Focus group research on ToU tariffs completed 31st July.
ESBCS System Delivery (Billing & Web) in progress.
IHD development in progress (Elster)
Meter installations commenced on 15th Dec-08.

5. Smart Metering (2) Electricity SME CBT
SME Empirical Trial (Single-sites - BGES & ESBCS):
Installations completed 8th July: 756 SME meters installed BGES & 542 ESBCS (728 original target increased to negate CoS fallouts incurred).
ESBCS System Delivery (Billing & Web) in progress.
BGES System Delivery (Billing) plan to be agreed.
SME multi-site case studies (ESBIE):
Installations completed: 16 meters across 4 customers representative of Multi-site users. Only 2 IHD sites.
System Delivery plan being agreed with ESBIE.

6. Smart Metering (3) GAS Residential & SME CBT
Implementation of Residential CBT:
1st batch of recruitment invites mailed 7th Aug – positive response rates so far (16%+).
Meter/IHD procurement
SME study high level scope agreed at workshop 16th July – case studies (50 meters max.) to supplement British SME findings – detailed scope & timelines to be agreed.
Prepayment - SMSG to review (meeting 20th Aug) ESBCS proposal for development of prepayment “electronic purse” to be used in thin meter proof of concept trial.
Prepayment - Trial proposal presented to Steering Group

7. Smart Metering (4) Technology Trials
Distributed Line Carrier (DLC) trial (Sagem) – c.2,000 meters in Limerick & Ennis. Infrastructure in place & being tested. Meter installations began 7th Aug 2009.
Radio Frequency (RF) 2.4GHz trial (Trilliant) - to begin end-Aug 2009 involving c.1,500 meters in Cork city & Bandon.
RF 868MHz trial (Elster) – Dublin South / Wicklow. Review underway with Elster – likely that installations in Dublin will be postponed to Jan 2010 to incorporate new release of Elster product more suitable to urban environment.
Power Line Carrier (PLC) trial (Aclara) – desktop study proceeding – due to conclude October 2009.
Final report due June 2010 – template reviewed by CER 2nd Apr.
HL Scope of gas technical trial requirements agreed 22nd Apr – detailed scope being progressed between BGN, ESBN & CER.

8. CER actions
- To provide explanation for the decision to have a 3-month lock down period as part of the SOLR event

9. Switching There have been 221,200 switches (MRSO data)
105 market messages issued from 5th jan upto end of last week