Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS)

The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has specified new common schema formats for inside information (REMIT) web feeds.

Modification P329 describes how this has been implemented for GB market participants.  P329 went live on 29 June 2017.

The new version of the interface specification (v5.12) describes the new ACER REMIT format which has applied since 29 June 2017.  

See also: 

• ELEXON's June 2017 Release webpage  
• MODIS User Guide Screens v0.18 which include new screens for ACER REMIT

There are three specific legacy European Transparency Regulation (ETR) reports (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:163:0001:0012:EN:PDF)  that NESO are still generating manually and reporting to ELEXON’s Insights platform where the information is duplicated because we are also publishing it elsewhere and generally in greater detail.

The details of these reports are as follows:

Article 8.1 – Year Ahead Margin (annual)

“Article 8 Year-ahead forecast margin 1. For their control areas, TSOs shall calculate and provide for each bidding zone the year-ahead forecast margin evaluated at the local market time unit to the ENTSO for Electricity. The information shall be published one week before the yearly capacity allocation but no later than the 15th calendar day of the month before the year to which the data relates.”

This is already published for all weeks in the 2-52 week ahead rolling timescale here:  https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/surplus-forecast-and-margin

Article 14.1b – Installed Generation Capacity (annual)

“Article 14 Forecast generation 1. For their control areas, TSOs shall calculate and provide the following information to the ENTSO for Electricity: (a) the sum of generation capacity (MW) installed for all existing production units equalling to or exceeding 1 MW installed generation capacity, per production type;”

Contracted generation is detailed in Appendix F of our Electricity Ten Year Statement here:  https://www.neso.energy/publications/electricity-ten-year-statement-etys/etys-documents-and-appendices

Article 17.1i – Monthly Financial Balance

1. For their control areas, TSOs or where applicable operators of balancing markets, where such markets exist shall provide the following information to the ENTSO for Electricity:

(i) monthly financial balance of the control area, specifying: — the expenses incurred to the TSO for procuring reserves and activating balancing energy, — the net income to the TSO after settling the imbalance accounts with balance responsible parties;

Currently a detailed breakdown of all monthly balancing costs including the two categories in the 17.1i report is published in our monthly balancing services summary (MBSS) here: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/mbss 

OFGEM have confirmed that in view of the above duplication, we can cease reporting these three existing manually generated legacy ETR reports in future to reduce the manual resource involved and avoid having the same duplicate information published in separate locations.