Balancing Market Outages - Thursday 19th November and Tuesday 1st December 2020

Affected Period

Status
Closed

Category
IT

Run type

Created
12/11/2020 17:18

Last Updated
20/11/2020 03:50

Updated Message 20/11/2020 03:49


Dear Market Participant,

Please be advised that tonight’s outage has been completed, and all applications are now back online and accessible.

We’ would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your cooperation with this outage and we apologise for any inconvenience.

Kind Regards,

SEMO


Updated Message 20/11/2020 02:05


Dear Market Participants,

Please note the BMI is back online.

Imbalance Pricing remains offline whilst further checks are conducted.

A further communication will be issued when Imbalance Pricing has been restored.

Kind regards,

SEMO 


Updated Message 20/11/2020 01:49


Dear Market Participants,

Please note the outage to Imbalance Pricing is ongoing whilst further checks are conducted.

We will provide a further communication upon completion of the outage.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Kind regards,

SEMO


Updated Message 19/11/2020 23:42


Dear Market Participants,

Please note the outage to Imbalance Pricing is ongoing and will surpass the previously communicated end time of 00:00.

We will provide a further communication upon completion of the outage.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Kind regards,

SEMO Trading Operations


Updated Message 19/11/2020 19:47


Dear Market Participant,

Please note the BMI is offline and the outage will now commence.

A further communication will be issued on completion of the outage.

Kind Regards,

SEMO


Updated Message 19/11/2020 19:01


Dear Market Participant,

Please note Imbalance Pricing has been taken offline as scheduled at 19:00.

The BMI will remain online for a short period whilst further checks are conducted.

A further communication will be issued when the BMI is offline.

Kind Regards,

SEMO


Updated Message 19/11/2020 11:17


Dear Market Participant,

This is notification of a Balancing Market outage tonight, Thursday 19th November 2020.  This outage is to facilitate technical configuration changes to the Market Systems.  The scheduled run time of the outage has been revised and will now run between 19:00 and 00:00.

Please note that the BMI will not be available during this time. The LTS run will be published prior to the commencement of the outage, and these results will be available on the public website which will be accessible throughout the duration of the outage.

A notification will be sent once the outage begins, and again upon completion of the outage.

Kind Regards,

SEMO


Original Message 12/11/2020 17:19


Dear Market Participant, 

We would like to provide Participants with advance notification of two Balancing Market outages in the coming weeks.  These outages are required to facilitate Hardware and Technical configuration changes within the Market Systems as part of an ongoing Technical Improvements Programme.

Thursday 19th November 2020:

This outage is to facilitate technical configuration changes to enhance the resilience capability of the Market Systems and is scheduled to run between 19:00 and 01:00.

Tuesday 1st December 2020:

This outage is to facilitate hardware upgrades within the Market Systems and is scheduled to run between 19:00 and 01:00.


Please note that the Balancing Market Interface will not be available during these times.  Further communication with revised timing will be issued closer to each outage.

The LTS run will be published prior to the commencement of each outage and these results will be available on the public website which will be accessible throughout the duration of each outage.

Notification will be sent once each outage begins and again upon completion of each outage.


Kind regards,

SEMO Team