Metering Committee set up to support MOSL’s Strategic Metering Review work

MOSL is leading a newly-created Panel Metering Committee to support the market operator’s work under its Strategic Metering Review to address metering issues in the business retail market.

The committee, which will hold its first meeting in April, will support the overall programme and provide tactical and strategic direction.

MOSL reported it is currently exploring several ‘quick-start’ projects which will focus on known issues and the code changes required to make improvements quickly, including:

• allowing more customer reads;

• reducing read frequencies for low consumption;

• reducing read rejections in CMOS;

• changing read validation criteria to reduce re-work;

• code additions and/or changes;

• the sharing of metering technology; and

• evaluation of the role of meter reading skip codes.

This "quick start" project will also focus on the role of trading parties in delivering improvements. MOSL said: “For example, this may mean encouraging joint working via a pairing improvement plan to address long unread meters, reviewing obligations on metering and data ownership or setting expectations for bilateral requests to be raised where a meter cannot be located and read.”