1. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 1 IGG Agenda – November 1s t 2006 Minutes from last IGG meeting10.00 – 10.15 Networks AIM Project Update 10.15 – 13.00 Review of Action Items13.30 – 13.40 CER Update13.40 – 13.50 Gemserv Update 13.50 – 14.00 Market Operations Update 14.00 – 14.30 Retail Market Design Service Update 14.30 – 14.40 Market Design Update 14.40 – 14.50 –Discussion Requests & Market Change Requests TAG Update14.50 – 14.55 Next Steps14.55 – 15.00

2. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 2 Minutes Minutes from last IGG meeting – September 21st 2006

3. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 3 Action Items Actions Addressed in Advance of Meeting Update on Action Items Actions to be covered during remainder of presentation Actions to be carried forward Other Action Items

4. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 4 Actions Addressed in Advance of Meeting Action Item 12 – Request ESB Networks AIP Team to evaluate if MCR 0063 can be included in workplan for November 2007 –Request formally made to ESB Networks AIP Team –ESBN AIP are considering it

5. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 5 Actions Addressed in Advance of Meeting Action Item 15 – Re-send three assurance process documents to two Market Participants –Documents issued –Propose to close this Action Item

6. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 6 Update on Action Items Action Item 16– Provide update on date for data provision –MCR 83 refers –Interim data: New complete interim extract has been run over the October weekend and will be provided to suppliers end of next week –Propose to reopen this Action until new interim extract issues.

7. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 7 Update on Action Items Action Item 10 – Investigate whether 306 message (de- energisation) is sent before 332 message for meter removal – If the site is registered and de-energisation and meter removal both occur on the same day, only a 332 MM issues –If there is a gap of more than one day, 306 MM issues for de- energisation and later a 332 MM issues for meter removal –Next steps ?

8. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 8 Update on Action Items Action Item 11 – Check whether energisation status needs to be validated on any other outbound message, suggestion that wrong energisation status is appearing on 332 message, update DR121 if necessary – Energisation status appears on messages 106D, 106E and 332 messages –DR 0121 will be updated and issue in advance of next conference call

9. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 9 Update on Action Items Action Item 8 – Advise the number of CoS cancellations that followed objections to date in 2006 –33 CoS objections processed between 1 st January 2006 and 1 st October 2006 –12 follow-on cancellation messages processed during the same period - Feedback awaited

10. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 10 Action Item to be carried forward Action Item 4 – Review possibility of creating and providing dedicated MPRN data for use in all IPT tests –DR will be raised shortly

11. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 11 Update on Action Items Action Item 5 and Action Item 13 – Issue note detailing the difficulties surrounding suppression of withdrawal of CoS reads –E-mail issued 3 rd October –No feedback received –Propose to close this item

12. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 12 Update on Action Items Action Item – RMDS to investigate the procedural issue whereby a duplicate MPRN is generated when a quotation is ‘rolled back’ –ESB Networks ISC have confirmed that any system ‘gaps’ have been resolved and duplicate MPRNs should not occur in the future –However, since a customer make multiple applications, an absolute guarantee is not possible. –Many duplicate MPRNs arose at cutover

13. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 13 Update on Action Items Action Item 9 – Investigate whether new 131 message could be issued for Special Read Request –A Special Read Request is a Data Collection process (distinct from meter works) –Unlike Meter Works, there is no interim system step between a read being taken and being issued. So the completion message and read message would always issue together –Currently No Access information is not passed to Suppliers and Special Reads can remain outstanding for long periods –Further investigation required

14. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 14 Action Items to be carried forward Action Item 6 – Prepare proposals on addresses in the Retail Market –This was due by this IGG –Held up by SEM work –Request that deadline be amended till the next IGG

15. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 15 Action Items to be carried forward Action Item 17 – Investigate update to MCC Guidance document –Request that deadline be set to 24 th November

16. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 16 Action Items to be carried forward Action Item 18 – Investigate controls regarding 341 message –Update at next conference call

17. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 17 Action Items to be carried forward Action Item 7 – Update DR 0123 – Versioning of 341 message to include a table indicating how versioning will work –DR should be updated in advance of next conference call

18. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 18 CER Update

19. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 19 Gemserv Update

20. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 20 SEM Update John Casey ESB Networks AIM Project Manager

21. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 21 Retail Electricity Market Issues Update Brona McKnight, ESB Networks

22. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 22 Retail Electricity Market Issues Log Log continuing to issue on a weekly basis Summary Statistics (as per last release –25-10-06) –Total Number of Issues Logged 130 –Total ‘Closed’ 120 –Total ‘In Progress’ 8 –Total ‘Being Monitored’ 1 –Total ‘Logged’ 2 –Issues Resulting in DRRs 9 –Total Raised Since Last Issue 0 –Total Closed Since Last Issue 2

23. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 23 Retail Market Design Service Update C. Madden, RMDS

24. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 24 Retail Market Design Service Update Quality Review –Internal Audit Completed Stakeholder Meetings –Meetings held with two Market Participants 2007 Budget in preparation

25. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 25 Retail Market Design Service Update Year end arrangements will issue before next Conference call.

26. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 26 Discussion Requests & Market Change Requests Brona McKnight

27. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 27 MCR/DR Update DR0103 Vulnerable Customers – Design finalised DR 0117 Proposal to add Acceptance / Completion / Cancellation message to Meter Works Design In progress MCR 0121 Rejection of change of usage requests DG5 to 1 or 2 where MIC is greater than or equal to 30 Incorrect numbering of MCR 0121, MCR 126 to be circulated to suppliers DR 0121 – Extra validation required at creation of 306 and 307 messages Finalising DR, Amended version to follow. MCR0127 – De-couple Connection Agreement requirement from Change of Supplier where MIC >= 100kVA and there is no Change of Legal Entity To be circulated DR 0123 – Versioning of 341 messages Work in progress WP 0013 Document the procedure to be used to terminate Meter Point Reference Numbers identified as duplicates New Discussion request DR 0124 to be circulated.

28. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 28 New Discussion Request –DR 0125 Meter Details 341 Message –Raised by: Energia Investigate solutions to ensure that the meter details sent in the 341 Message is the meter on site that has been polled by MV90 subsequent to a meter change.

29. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 29 TAG Update C Madden, RMDS

30. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 30 SSL certs Renewal Notification & Reminder sent to MPs to renew their SSL certs. The following SSL certs are expiring in December 1. Airtricity18/12/2006 2. BGE17/12/2006 3. CH Power14/12/2006 4. Eirgrid (SSA)16/12/2006 5. Eirgrid TSO16/12/2006 Once renewed public certificates (.cer file) you will need to send it to MOIEX so that servers can be updated. Once this is completed they will inform you to update your MPCCs with the certs. Intention is to have certs updated by the end of November.

31. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Services www.rmdservice.com 31 Planned outages Hub data archive takes place on the last Saturday of each month. Next Scheduled archive is 25-11-06

32. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 32 Next Steps Proposed Diary dates for subsequent meetings –December 14 th –January 25 th - proposed

33. RMDSRMDS Retail Market Design Service www.rmdservice.com 33 Next Steps Propose to continue with conference call every two weeks – proposed dates – November 2 nd - cancelled – November 16th Call details will remain the same: –Number: 01-6647602 PIN : 77640 –Contingency number remains: 01-6647777 PIN: 60236