XRN 4894
Shipperless and Unregistered Pre-Payment Supply Points Reconciliation

Summary

This proposal would allow Xoserve to release the Shipperless and Unregistered sites data to Siemens who currently hold a register of all the pre-payment Supply Points. The release of data to Siemens would allow them to undertake a data matching exercise against the data that they hold for pre-payment Supply Points which they would then provide back to Xoserve to allow the Supply Point Registration process to commence. As the Shipperless and Unregistered sites data doesn’t have any customers registered to them there are no data protection issues.

This piece of work needs to take place as we have been discovering a number of sites with prepayment meters that are using gas which are currently unregistered, all of which are adding to unidentified gas volumes that the industry is working to remove.

The matching exercise with Siemens has been documented in the attached letter that Xoserve have helped to pull together which covers the legal obligations that must be adhered to by Siemens. The DN’s believe that this piece of work should be considered by the UIG Task Force as it is closely linked to unidentified gas.