DECC Consultation on the Smart Metering Implementation
Programme - Data Communications Company Regulatory and Commercial
Framework
The Department of Energy and Climate Change
("DECC") has issued a consultation on
the detailed policy design of the regulatory and commercial
framework for the Data and Communications Company
("DCC").
DCC's principal role will be to communicate with smart meters
at all domestic gas and electricity consumer premises. It
will be appointed through a competitive process and will be
responsible for managing the services it needs to communicate with
the smart meters (those services will also be competitively
procured, with the initial contracts being developed by Government
as part of the Smart Metering Implementation Programme).
The consultation seeks stakeholders' views on the Government's detailed policy proposals in respect of the regulatory and commercial framework to support the establishment and licensing of the DCC, including in relation to:
- the establishment of the role of DCC (a new licensable activity) in the gas and electricity legislative framework;
- DCC licence conditions;
- DCC performance incentives;
- DCC cost recovery and charges;
- Wide Area Network requirements for the provision of DCC core services;
- the adoption of foundation stage communication contracts; and
- the licence application process.
Responses should be sent to dccg@decc.gsi.gov.uk by 24 November
2011.
For more information on the consultation, click
here.
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The original publication date for this article was 04/10/2011.
