User Requirements Specification: Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent

This defines the requirements for the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent service of the NETA Central Systems. The requirements are described from the point of view of the ECVAA Service Operators.

The objective of this document is to provide a complete specification of the user requirements that the ECVAA service must meet. For this purpose, the “users” include BSCCo Ltd, Ofgem, National Grid as the balancing mechanism operator, other Service Providers, BSC Parties, and the ECVAA Service Provider’s own operators.

This refers to a “Supplier BM Unit”, which means a BM Unit with a BM Unit Type of ‘G’ or ‘S’, and to a “Secondary BM Unit”, which means a BM Unit registered by a Virtual Lead Party (VLP) with a BM Unit Type of ‘V’, as stated by the Lead Party on the ‘Registration of BM Unit’ form in BSCP15.