Open consultation

Delivering a smart and secure electricity system: implementation

From:: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Published: 16 April 2024

Consultation description

The Smart Secure Electricity Systems (SSES) Programme is designed to create the technical and regulatory frameworks to enable the untapped flexibility from small scale devices, such as domestic electric vehicle charge points and heat pumps. It should contribute to electricity system decarbonisation in a way that protects consumers and the electricity system.

This consultation builds on both the 2022 Delivering a smart and secure electricity system consultation and the 2023 government response to that consultation.

The consultation questions are split into sections over 3 documents:

1. The Energy Smart Appliances (ESA) paper (58 questions) sets out proposals on:

a set of minimum standards for ESAs that adhere to the principles of interoperability, cybersecurity, data privacy and grid stability

2. The Licencing Regime paper (56 questions) sets out proposals on:

the type of organisations that will require a load control licence
requirements around consumer protections, data privacy, consumer switching, management and financial controls
a framework and design principles for cyber security and technical requirements in the licence

3. The Time of Use Tariff paper (11 questions) sets out:

the scope of a tariff data standard for energy suppliers to meet so energy smart appliances can easily receive and respond to tariff information from different energy suppliers
the proposed regulatory and delivery solutions (which are intertwined)

The consultation is open to anyone to respond, but will primarily be of interest to: