Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Regulatory and Energy Assistance Project (REAP)

An accounting metering system enables market participants to execute financial settlement among themselves to charge parties who incur costs for those who provide services in the Electric Power system. The system must clearly address several issues, including responsible parties to provide metering data, technical characteristics of the metering system, metering data acquisition, processing of the metering data, data storage, and delivery of billing data. REAP analyzed existing documents to determine if they cover BiH metering processes. The analysis revealed that while items 1 and 2 from the list are clearly defined, responsibility assigned, and items 3 and 5 are partially addressed, work is needed to define processes related to items 4 and 6. The General Conditions of Supply, Distribution Code, and Rule on Metering point were developed to cover the current situation where supplier and distribution are one company. However, the following elements of the process chain are missing: specification of data developed by the processing of measurement data and type of delivery data for recipients, list of recipients, time schedule, format, and means to deliver data to recipients. REAP proposes that a document be developed to determine the data developed by the processing of measurement data, type of delivery data for recipients, list of recipients, time schedule, format, and means to deliver data to recipients. The document must consider the role of all users of data, suppliers, BRP, DSO, ISO, and Transco. In addition, the rule must be complementary to similar rules developed for high-voltage network users by the ISO and Transco. The Transco and DSOs must sign a connection contract that will take into account the Rules on metering developed for market participants. The analysis of existing documents revealed several gaps in the metering process. For example, the ISO Grid Code and Metering Code do not specify the responsible parties to provide metering data, technical characteristics of the metering system, metering data acquisition, processing of the metering data, data storage, and delivery of billing data. The Grid Code and Metering Code also do not specify the means of data transmission, time schedule, and format for delivering data to recipients. The Rule on Metering point in the FBiH entity does not specify the responsible parties to provide metering data, technical characteristics of the metering system, metering data acquisition, processing of the metering data, data storage, and delivery of billing data. The analysis also revealed that the existing documents do not specify the list of recipients, time schedule, format, and means to deliver data to recipients. The General Conditions of Supply and Rule on Metering point in the FBiH entity do not specify the list of recipients, time schedule, format, and means to deliver data to recipients. The Distribution Code in the FBiH entity does not specify the means to deliver data to recipients. The Transco and DSOs must sign a connection contract that will take into account the Rules on metering developed for market participants.