Subject matter
1. This implementing Regulation lays down interoperability requirements and rules for non-discriminatory and transparent procedures for access to electricity metering and consumption data by final customers and eligible parties in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/944. It also sets out non-discriminatory and transparent procedures for access to data that require reporting and publication of national practices applying the reference model.
2. In order to ensure the application of interoperability requirements, this Regulation establishes a reference model for metering and consumption data that sets out the rules and procedures that Member States shall apply to enable interoperability. It lists the electricity market participants that are concerned by this act and the roles and responsibilities they perform individually or jointly, as described in Articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 and in the Annex to this Regulation, with one electricity market participant being able to carry out more than one role.
Definitions
For the purposes of this implementing Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
(1)
‘reference model’ means the procedures that are necessary for access to data describing the minimum required information exchange between market participants;
(2)
‘metering and consumption data’ means meter readings of electricity consumption from the grid, or electricity fed into the grid, or consumption from on-site generation facilities which are connected to the grid, and includes validated historical data and non-validated near-real time data;
(3)
‘validated historical metering and consumption data’ means historical metering and consumption data collected from a meter, a conventional meter or a smart meter, or a smart metering system, or completed with substitute values that are determined otherwise in case of meter unavailability;
(4)
‘smart meter’ means an electronic metering device deployed within a smart metering system as defined in the Article 2(23) of the Directive (EU) 2019/944;
(5)
‘near real-time metering and consumption data’ means metering and consumption data provided continuously by a smart meter or a smart metering system in a short time period, usually down to seconds or up to the imbalance settlement period in the national market, which is non-validated and made available through a standardised interface or through remote access in line with Article 20(a) of the Electricity Directive (EU) 2019/944;
(6)
‘eligible party’ means an entity offering energy-related services to final customers, such as suppliers, transmission and distribution system operators, delegated operators and other third parties, aggregators, energy service companies, renewable energy communities, citizen energy communities and balancing service providers, as far as they offer energy related services to final customers;
(7)
‘metered data administrator’ means a party responsible for storing validated historical metering and consumption data and distributing these data to final customers and/or eligible parties;
(8)
‘permission’ means the authorisation given by a final customer for an eligible party on the basis of a contractual agreement they have with this party, to access their metering and consumption data managed by the metered data administrator for the provision of a specific service;
(9)
‘active permission’ means a permission that has not been revoked or expired;
(10)
‘permission administrator’ means a party responsible for administering a register of data access permissions for a set of metering points, making this information available to final customers and eligible parties in the sector, on request;
(11)
‘data access log’ means a timestamped record of data items accessed that includes at least the identification of the final customer or the eligible party accessing the data and, if applicable, the identification of the permission used to access the data;
(12)
‘metering point administrator’ means a party responsible for administering and making available the characteristics of a metering point, including the registrations of eligible parties and final customers linked to the metering point;
(13)
‘data access provider’ means a party responsible for facilitating access, including in cooperation with other parties, to validated historical metering and consumption data by the final customer or by eligible parties;
(14)
‘permission provision log’ means a timestamped record of when the permission for a an eligible party or final customer was granted, revoked, or terminated, including a permission identifier, and a party identifier;
(15)
‘identity service provider’ means a party that manages identity information; issues, stores, protects, keeps up to date, and manages identity information for a natural or legal person and provides authentication services to eligible parties and final customers;
(16)
‘authentication’ means an electronic procedure that enables the electronic identification of a natural or legal person;
(17)
‘meter operator’ means a party responsible for installing, maintaining, testing, and decommissioning physical meters;
(18)
‘near real-time data consumption system’ means a system or device that obtains the flow of non-validated near real-time data from a smart metering system as referred to in Article 20, first subparagraph, point (a) of Directive (EU) 2019/944.
