Industry Shipperless & Unregistered Working Group

1. Industry Shipperless & Unregistered Working Group Wednesday 1st February 2012

2. Agenda • Introduction • Review ‘Terms of Reference’ document • Previous minutes/actions • Statistical Information • Overall industry volume • Age analysis/AQ values • Targeted sites • Legitimate pot – The curious case of Dursley Sainsbury’s • Proactive data cleansing • Duplicate identification (Orphaned/PTS/SSP/No activity) • Discussion points • MOD 0410 • Fitting meters without advising Supplier • A.O.B.

3. Terms of Reference – Review existing principles • Purpose and Objectives (A collective cross industry working group) • Collectively establish & execute activities to correct the current Unregistered/Shipperless datasets recorded within the central systems; • Identify the root causes & fix the process deficiencies; • Review the outcome of ‘Project Delta’ field visits & agree next steps, inclusive of Unregistered/Shipperless sites that are not recorded on central systems. • Scope • This working group has been established to address the 3 objectives utilising Licence, UNC and non-UNC instruments as appropriate • Composition • The working group has been designed to be an open Industry forum. It is the intention that representatives from Gas Distribution Networks and Suppliers as a minimum would be in attendance.

4. Terms of Reference – Considerations • Industry change • Modification discussions & Workgroups • Potential duplication of decision making • Scope of influence • Continue with quarterly forum? • Change reporting frequency? • Consensus across Stakeholders

5. Statistical Information

6. Overall Industry volumes

7. Overall Industry volumes: Age analysis

8. Overall Industry volumes: AQ values

9. Top 500 Legitimate pot: AQ breakdown

10. The curious case of Dursley Sainsbury’s SAINSBURY’S Castle St, Dursley, Glouc’sGL11 4BS • MPR 9206457400… created 28th May 2009 • Requested/Current AQ… 301,344,000 • Store opened 17th March 2010 • Duplicate checks proved negative • January 2012… Sadly still Unconfirmed

11. Targeted sites • To aid progression focus on specific ‘Legitimate’ categories • Highest AQ ~ Wider industry implications • Potential to re-categorise/remove? • Opportunity to stem rising volumes • Propose to issue ‘Legitimate’ pot for targeted analysis • How would industry like Xoserve to manage further examples • End-user letters? • Network Site Visits? • Issue priority Unconfirmed ‘pots’

12. Proactive data cleansing - Orphaned • Report to identify potential duplicates from ‘Orphaned’ pot • Using ‘Fuzzy match’ principles • Matched MSN and address (in line with DUP procedure) • In total 6,409 MPR’s with asset attached • 147 ~ High confidence of duplicate (backed by manual checks) • 18 ~ Possible; raise internal DUP • 6244 ~ Not duplicates • Options to progress high confidence duplicates • Set to ‘EX’ • Request sample Site Visits

13. Proactive data cleansing - PTS • Report to identify potential duplicates from ‘PTS’ (Shipperless sites derived from GSR process) • Using ‘Fuzzy match’ principles • Matched assumed MSN & address (in line with DUP procedure) • In total 2,120 MPR’s in population • 64 ~ High confidence of duplicate (backed by manual checks) • 9 ~ Possible; raise internal DUP • 2047 ~ Not duplicates • Options to progress high confidence duplicates • Set to ‘EX’ • Request sample Site Visits

14. Proactive data cleansing - SSP • Report to identify potential duplicates from ‘SSP’ (Shipperless sites derived from GSR process) • Using ‘Fuzzy match’ principles • Matched assumed MSN & address (in line with DUP procedure) • In total 4,749 MPR’s in population • 106 ~ High confidence of duplicate (backed by manual checks) • 10 ~ Possible; raise internal DUP • 4,633 ~ Not duplicates • Options to progress high confidence duplicates • Set to ‘EX’ • Request sample Site Visits

15. Proactive data cleansing – No activity • Report to identify potential duplicates from ‘No Activity’ pot • Using ‘Fuzzy match’ principles • Matched assumed MSN & address (in line with DUP procedure) • In total 1,408 MPR’s in population • 3 ~ High confidence of duplicate (backed by manual checks) • 3 ~ Possible; raise internal DUP • 1,402 ~ Not duplicates • Options to progress high confidence duplicates • Set to ‘EX’ • Request sample Site Visits

16. Modification 0410 • Currently at draft proposal stage • New Connections where gas off-taken at Unregistered sites • Transporter responsibility • Where MPR’s created for non Shipper parties • Shipper responsibility • Where MPR requested by Shipper • Consideration to current processes • Impacts on reporting • Requirements to support change

17. Fitting meters without advising Supplier • Anne Jackson

18. AOB • Any other business…