B2B Working Group 30 November, 2016 Power of Choice [PoC]

AGENDA Introduction and Apologies Issues to come out of review period Technical Delivery Specification Update IEC Directive and Guidance Clause drafting 2nd stage Review period Next steps

B2B Procedure issues for review period May 18 B2B Procedure issues for review period AEMO have identified a number of issues in the consultation period: Notified parties – we expect to get feedback from some participants with respect to the requirement to notify 3rd parties in all service orders CSDN – Life Support changes have been flagged by the AER and these will most likely not be finalised before the end of B2B consultation. Option 1 – make minimal change Option 2 – keep or tweak changes and look to finalise in Final B2B Obligations and IEC Directive (to be discussed) Technical Design limitations (to be discussed) OTHERS?

Technical Design update May 18 Technical Design update Key update: SWG Focus group has met to discuss Webservices Push-Push Asynchronous approach and have agreed on the proposal that will be discussed in the SWG on the 6th of December The majority of the focus group members suggested that Synchronous Webservices was not a practical solution and based on participants system limitations on the Asynchronous approach would fit the vast majority of use cases. Focus group has met to discuss the One to Many (multi-party protocol) and interoperability. Outcomes of this to be discussed on 6th of December Outcome of 6th of December will finalise the additional new content for the Technical Delivery Specification procedure Technical Delivery Specification Procedure planned to be reviewed with a focus group consisting of B2B and SWG working group members Review of Consultation feedback from Technical Delivery Discussion paper early next week. AEMO also plans to publish another SMP technical document to detail other technical details of the SMP platform such as the Web UI or LVI and the P2P functionality

Technical Delivery Specification drafting – next steps Activities Dates Summary Publish Push-Push & Interoperability Material Tuesday 30th November AEMO will publish the Web Services ‘Push-Push’ & interoperability material generated from the second focus group to the wider SWG audience, giving members 3 days to provide feedback prior to the next SWG meeting and allowing time for AEMO to make any required updates and discuss internally prior to the next SWG.   First round consultation feedback Friday 2 December AEMO to summarise all the feedback from the TDS Discussion paper included in the initial draft consultation for B2B Procedures SWG Meeting Tuesday 6th December AEMO will Present final Web Service ‘Push-Push’ & interoperability solutions. Incorporating any feedback where appropriate before sharing with the B2B WG. B2B Review Thursday 8th December AEMO will share the Web Service ‘Push-Push’ solution with the B2B working group and any feedback received by the participants on discussion paper B2B Final Review Thursday 15th December AEMO to share Draft Technical Delivery Specification Monday 19th December Group to review all the aseXML schema changes required for both B2B & B2M for the EN,MC & SMP projects. IEC Meeting Tuesday 20th December IEC to accept B2B WG recommendation on Draft B2B Procedures (including TDS) Draft B2B Procedures published Friday 23rd December AEMO to publish draft B2B Procedures based on IEC/B2B WG recommendation

IEC Directive and Guidance clause Drafting – see attached examples Power of Choice [PoC]

May 18 IEC Directive AEMO still requires specific references for inclusion in the Draft procedures based on the IEC Directive NER/NERR and Distributor Code references MDP SLP largely complete Review of Clauses needed to ensure all obligations – outside of those relating to communications - are captured AGL Legal comments and specific re-drafting is currently being gathered and these will be incorporated – where appropriate - into Draft procedures

Schedule

Next steps 1 December – AEMO to send login details for Link site that will hold all consultation responses Consultation closes on 2 December 3-4 December – Initial Response collation 5 December – 12-12:15pm B2B WG phone hookup to discuss progress and highlight any concerns 6 December 12 noon – for each procedure all major issues highlighted and sent back to AEMO in agreed template AEMO to produce consolidated issues paper for workshop 7-8 December COB 8 December AEMO will provide an update to IEC/PCF and Exec Forum groups on progress and likelihood of achieve 23 December Draft publish date