ECOES API for Export MPAN Creation at Scale
Summary
Electricity Suppliers believe there is a significant bottleneck to Export Metering Point creation, which is resulting in them feeling unable to offer Export smart products to a wider audience of Consumer and scale low-carbon technology. The most effective solution is an API within the Electricity Enquiry Service (EES) that allows the Electricity Supplier to request the creation of an Export Metering Point. This could work for both Electricity Suppliers and Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) ensuring that scalable solutions are applied at both sides of the process.
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04/06/2026 - on 02 June 2026, the Technical Expert Panel approved via ex-committee vote to place I0228 on hold, until the outcome of R0321 is known.
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Problem Statement
A restriction of 50 Export Metering Points per DNO per day, with no two DNOs operating the bulk request process in the same way, is overly burdensome to Electricity Suppliers and creating a barrier for Consumers getting an Export Metering Point assigned to their Premise. This is ultimately harming the effort the reach Net Zero.
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06 Mar 2025Original submission
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3 Dec 2024
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ECOES API for Export MPAN Creation at Scale
We want to exponentially scale our export portfolio and offer several new export products and low-carbon tech to new and existing customers, at present, we average 5k export MPAN creation requests per month but expect to scale this to 10k per month over the next six months.
Under the current ECOES export MPAN creation architecture (MPAN Requests), a user can create an export MPAN on a one-to-one level which prohibits scaling of new export products for our customers.
We have explored batch processes with the DNOs but have been categorically told 'No' from the largest DNO (23.78% of our export MPAN requests) to a batch process as they have batch capability on their side of ECOES. Therefore, we require an API to ECOES that enables an energy supplier to create an export MPAN at scale.
Under the current ECOES export MPAN creation architecture (MPAN Requests), a user can create an export MPAN on a one-to-one level which prohibits scaling of new export products for our customers.
We have explored batch processes with the DNOs but have been categorically told 'No' from the largest DNO (23.78% of our export MPAN requests) to a batch process as they have batch capability on their side of ECOES. Therefore, we require an API to ECOES that enables an energy supplier to create an export MPAN at scale.
As there is a significant bottleneck to export MPAN creation we are unable to offer export smart products to a wider audience of customers and scale our low-carbon tech. We are unable to scale.
The most effective solution is an API with ECOES that allows the client (energy supplier) to request the creation of an export MPAN. This could work for both suppliers and DNOs ensuring that scalable solutions are applied at both sides of the process.
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Implementation of low-carbon tech such as solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles. Offering export smart products e.g demand side response, capacity market etc all centred on the export of energy in an initiative to offset customers' energy costs and drive green energy into the energy market.
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Problem Statement changed to A restriction of 50 Export Metering Points per DNO per day, with no two DNOs operating the bulk request process in the same way, is overly burdensome to Electricity Suppliers and creating a barrier for Consumers getting…
Problem Statement changed to A restriction of 50 Export Metering Points per DNO per day, with no two DNOs operating the bulk request process in the same way, is overly burdensome to Electricity Suppliers and creating a barrier for Consumers getting an Export Metering Point assigned to their Premise. This is ultimately harming the effort the reach Net Zero..
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Status has been changed to Issue Review.
Orphaned SME: Lead Technical Analyst, vaishnsharma have been allocated as SME.