Electricity commercial policy consultations

SSE Power Distribution is committed to communication and engagement with customers and stakeholders who are affected by developments in electricity distribution and transmission. From time to time, we will publish information of interest to our customers and stakeholders, including consultation documents, on current matters and developing issues in distribution and transmission.

Final April 2010 Use of System Charges and Information Update for Generators

To advise the operators of exporting generation plant of final April 2010 Use of System Charges and their application to generators connected prior to April 2005, SSE Power Distribution issued a further advisory letter on 2nd March 2010. To view or download this letter, please click on the links below:

SEPD Letter to Embedded Generation Operators - 02/03/2010
SHEPD Letter to Embedded Generation Operators - 02/03/2010

You can view and download the Use of System Charges from the Charging Statements page.

Supplier and Stakeholder Use of System Teleconference - 26th January 2010A stakeholder teleconference was hosted by SSE Power Distribution on 26th January 2010 to discuss the following use of system cost information. If you wish to access the information which was circulated to the participants in the teleconference or to read the notes of the teleconference, please click the relevant link below:

Teleconference Information Pack
Stakeholder Teleconference Information Pack

Teleconference Notes
Notes of teleconference

Use of System Charges - Updated Information for Distribution Connected GeneratorsTo provide further information to the operators of exporting generation plant of indicative Use of System Charges and their application to generators connected prior to April 2005, SSE Power Distribution issued an advisory letter on 11th January 2010. To view or download this letter, please click on the links below:

SEPD Letter to Embedded Generation Operators - 11/01/2010
SHEPD Letter to Embedded Generation Operators - 11/01/2010

Indicative use of system charges - April 2010SSE Power Distribution submitted indicative Use of system charges to Ofgem on 22 December 2009 for intended application from 1 April 2010. You can view and download these indicative charges from the Charging statements page.

SSE Power Distribution wishes to advise the operators of exporting generation plant which is connected to either the Southern Electric Power Distribution plc (SEPD) network or the Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution plc (SHEPD) network of important developments in relation to Use of System Charges. These developments may financially affect the operators of such plant and/or the commercial terms and arrangements between generators and their associated electricity suppliers.

To read or download a letter to operators of such plant, please click the link below:

SEPD Letter to Embedded Generation Operators - 16/12/09
SHEPD Letter to Embedded Generation Operators - 16/12/09

On 16 December 2009, SSE Power Distribution provided an update information pack to the participants in the Stakeholder Use of System Teleconference which took place on 30 November 2009. Choose the relevant link below if you wish to access these documents:

Update information pack to stakeholders
SSEPD Stakeholder Letter - 16/12/09
SSEPD Illustrative Interim 2010-11 EHV Demand & Generation Tariffs
SEPD CDCM 2010-11 (ENA) - 11/12/09
SHEPD CDCM 2010-11 (ENA) - 11/12/09

Stakeholder use of system teleconference - 30 November 2009

SSE Power Distribution is committed to communication and engagement with stakeholders who are affected by developments in electricity distribution and transmission. A stakeholder teleconference was hosted by SSE Power Distribution on 30 November 2009 to discuss the following current use of system matters:

• Common Distribution Charging Methodology (CDCM)
• Distribution Price Control (DPCR5)
• Extra High Voltage (EHV) Use of System Charging
• Cost information (as DCUSA Clause 35A)
• BSCP128 (distribution losses)

Invitations to participate in the teleconference were extended to electricity suppliers, licensed distribution network operators and a number of other parties with interests in electricity distribution developments. If you wish to access the documents which were circulated to the participants in the teleconference or to read the notes of the teleconference, please click the relevant link below:

Information pack to stakeholders
SSEPD Stakeholder Letter - 26/11/09
SSEPD Illustrative Tariff Changes
SSEPD Illustrative 2010-11 EHV Distribution Use of System Charges
SEPD Illustrative 2010/11 DUoS, G-DUoS & LDNO Tariffs
SHEPD Illustrative 2010/11 DUoS, G-DUoS & LDNO Tariffs
SEPD Illustrative Time Bands
SHEPD Illustrative Time Bands
SEPD Cost Information
SHEPD Cost Information
SSEPD K Recovery Factor - 31/10/09

Teleconference registered participants
Stakeholder Teleconference Registered Participants

Teleconference notes
Notes of teleconference

Further stakeholder engagement events will be held periodically. If you wish to be notified of future events, please contact Angus Rae, SSE Power Distribution Commercial Policy Manager to register your interest (angus.rae@Scottish-southern.co.uk).

On 25 August 2009 CE Electric, Central Networks, EDF Energy Networks, Electricity North West, SP Energy Networks, SSE Power Distribution and Western Power Distribution, on behalf of the 14 entities licensed as Distribution Service Providers, jointly submitted the documents below which make up the CDCM submission package to Ofgem. This is in accordance with licence condition 50 of the standard distribution licence conditions under which the licensees are obliged to submit a CDCM by 1 September 2009.

The SSE Power Distribution submission included in the CDCM submission package (on behalf of Southern Electric Power Distribution plc and Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution plc who are Distribution Service Providers) is available in the files and documents below:

SEPD CDCM Model
SHEPD CDCM Model
Report on the Draft CDCM - August 2009
Appendix A – Summary of Responses
Appendix B – CDCM Methodology
Appendix C – Illustrative Charges and Time Bands
Appendix D – Significant Tariff Movements
Appendix E – Areas of Risk
DNO Letters of Support

The full CDCM submission package (which includes all the companies' models), and other related information on CDCM, is available on the Energy Networks Association website.

Structure of Charges Project - archive

SSE Power Distribution, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Central Networks agreed to work together, as a group known as 'G3', to create a new methodology for Use of System Charges, as part of the long term charging arrangement project.

Reports on G3 methodology

Reckon report on G3 methodology
Frontier Economics report on G3 methodology

G3 Consultation - May 2007

Consultation Document
Summary of responses to G3 consultation
Response from Centrica
Response from CoCoal
Response from EnerG
Response from Energywatch
Response from EON supply
Response from Npower
Response from Ralph Turvey
Response from Renewable Energy Association
Response from SSE supply
Response from United Utilities (now Electricity North West)
Response from Western Power Distribution

G3 workshop - East Midlands 13 July 2007

Workshop notes
Workshop presentations

Update on Structure of Charges Consultation - January 2009

Statutory Objection Notice
Letter to Ofgem August 2008
Letter to Ofgem May 2008
Letter to Ofgem May 2007
Paper on Existing Distribution Generation Connections
Bath University benefit analysis work