Consultation on additional Smart Energy Code (SEC) content
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March 2015
This document provides the Government response to specific areas of the following consultations:
- Stage 4 of the Smart Energy Code (SEC 4) published on 30 June 2014
- Additional Consultation as part of the SEC 4 Part A Government Response published on 17 November 2014
- January 2015 SEC Consultation published on 26 January 2015
This document provides the final policy position (and associated legal text), or in a few cases an update on the current position, on topics including:
- DCC User Interface Service Schedule
- Provision of Data for the Central Delivery Body
- User Supplier to Non User Supplier Churn
- Requirement to consult on Communication Hub Dimensions
- Movement of some Technical Arrangements into Subsidiary Documents
- SMKI/DCCKI and IKI related changes to the SEC
- Further Security Requirements and Post Commissioning Obligations
- Notifying new commencement dates for SEC testing phases
- Testing
- Changes to when Communications Hubs can be ordered and associated forecasts are required to be submitted
Conclusions on the remaining SEC 4 and SEC 4 Part A content will follow in due course.
This document provides the government response to specific areas of the following consultations:
- Stage 4 of the Smart Energy Code (SEC 4) published on 30 June 2014
- Additional consultation as part of the SEC 4 Part A government response published on 17 November 2014
This document provides the final policy position and associated legal text on: Test Certificates; User IDs, DCC IDs and Party IDs; and Compliance Policy Independence Arrangements (CPIA). These are areas for which an actual or possible early requirement has been identified. Conclusions on the remaining SEC 4 and 4A content will follow in due course.
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Original consultation
Consultation description
This document consults further on additional policy and proposed legal text on:
- Smart Metering Key Infrastructure (SMKI)
- DCC Key Infrastructure (DCCKI)
- Infrastructure Key Infrastructure (IKI)
- Shared Services
- additional security requirements
- moving some detailed and technical SEC text into a subsidiary document
This document also provides the government response to consultations on:
- Stage 4 of the Smart Energy Code (SEC4) (Part A of the response)
- Transitional arangements in the Smart Energy Code (SEC)
SEC Section H5.33-5.40 (Post Commissioning obligations)
Please note that a separate version of the post commissioning obligations has also been provided. Please note that it is intended that this text will be moved to a subsidiary document as part of the more general changes proposed for H5. However government is consulting on further changes to the post commissioning obligations that would be placed on suppliers and the DCC (and which would, if incorporated, ultimately be included within the new subsidiary document under Section H5), although for convenience the legal drafting at this stage shows the amendments that would be made to the version of Section H5 we consulted upon as part of the SEC 4 consultation. As it is not now proposed to be part of the main body of the SEC, we are publishing the text separately. We are also consulting on complementary changes to Section M which support the proposed changes to these proposed post commissioning obligations.
We have noted an error in the ‘SEC4A and Transitional Arrangements government conclusions and further consultation text’ and ‘Smart Energy Code with SEC4A and Transitional Arrangements conclusions incorporated - clean’ documents. The correct definitions of DCC User Interface Specification and DCC User Interface Services Schedule are:
- DCC User Interface Specification means the SEC Subsidiary Document identified as the ‘DCC User Gateway Interface Specification’ set out in Appendix [TBC].
- DCC User Interface Services Schedule means the SEC Subsidiary Document of that name set out in Appendix [TBC].
We will amend the in force legal text at the earliest opportunity and apologise for any confusion caused.
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Last updated 26 March 2015 + show all updates
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March 2015 Smart Energy Code government response to consultation.
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Government and public responses published.
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First published.