Industry Governance Group 20th August 2009 CER Update Industry Governance Group 20th August 2009

Tariffs Consultations : PES allowed Revenue ; Duos & TUOS Allowed Revenue and charges; ESB CS proposed tariffs from 1st Oct 2009 to 30th Sept 2010.

Publications CER has published a consultation paper on Debt Blocking on 14th August 2009 Retail Market Information Report for 2008 to be published this week – contains statistics on overall customer nos, consumption, load profiles, market shares, prices and churn rates.

Smart Metering (1) Electricity Residential CBT 5,607 residential meters installed – completed 4th July (5,375 original target increased to negate CoS & CoT fallouts, & replace signal problem sites) Benchmark data collection period in progress – until 31st Dec 2009 Socio-economic survey of trial participants in progress. Decline Letters to issue shortly to “Fallout” customers (CoS / CoT) New Supplier to issue CoS letters - BGES & Airtricity. Smart meter remains installed. Key stakeholders: 94 nominations: 81 installs, 7 cancels, 6 outstanding Focus group research on ToU tariffs completed 31st July. ESBCS System Delivery (Billing & Web) in progress. IHD development in progress (Elster) Meter installations commenced on 15th Dec-08.

Smart Metering (2) Electricity SME CBT SME Empirical Trial (Single-sites - BGES & ESBCS): Installations completed 8th July: 756 SME meters installed - 214 BGES & 542 ESBCS (728 original target increased to negate CoS fallouts incurred). ESBCS System Delivery (Billing & Web) in progress. BGES System Delivery (Billing) plan to be agreed. SME multi-site case studies (ESBIE): Installations completed: 16 meters across 4 customers representative of Multi-site users. Only 2 IHD sites. System Delivery plan being agreed with ESBIE.

Smart Metering (3) GAS Residential & SME CBT Implementation of Residential CBT: 1st batch of recruitment invites mailed 7th Aug – positive response rates so far (16%+). Meter/IHD procurement SME study high level scope agreed at workshop 16th July – case studies (50 meters max.) to supplement British SME findings – detailed scope & timelines to be agreed. Prepayment - SMSG to review (meeting 20th Aug) ESBCS proposal for development of prepayment “electronic purse” to be used in thin meter proof of concept trial. Prepayment - Trial proposal presented to Steering Group

Smart Metering (4) Technology Trials Distributed Line Carrier (DLC) trial (Sagem) – c.2,000 meters in Limerick & Ennis. Infrastructure in place & being tested. Meter installations began 7th Aug 2009. Radio Frequency (RF) 2.4GHz trial (Trilliant) - to begin end-Aug 2009 involving c.1,500 meters in Cork city & Bandon. RF 868MHz trial (Elster) – Dublin South / Wicklow. Review underway with Elster – likely that installations in Dublin will be postponed to Jan 2010 to incorporate new release of Elster product more suitable to urban environment. Power Line Carrier (PLC) trial (Aclara) – desktop study proceeding – due to conclude October 2009. Final report due June 2010 – template reviewed by CER 2nd Apr. HL Scope of gas technical trial requirements agreed 22nd Apr – detailed scope being progressed between BGN, ESBN & CER.

CER actions - To provide explanation for the decision to have a 3-month lock down period as part of the SOLR event

Switching There have been 221,200 switches (MRSO data) 105 market messages issued from 5th jan upto end of last week