Ofgem opened a consultation titled ‘Updates on Data Best Practice Guidance and Digitalisation Strategy and Action Plan Guidance’ at the end of February. We welcomed the opportunity to respond to this.
Whilst we are not obliged under the licence framework to follow the Data Best Practice Guidance (DBPG), as we are fully supportive of the principle aims, we have nonetheless embedded the principles within the REC, ensuring that any data access permitted pursuant to REC Schedule 12 is consistent with those principles. As signalled in our response to Ofgem’s Autumn 2022 Call for Input, we are in the early stages of work to fully assess and adopt the principles more broadly in our future work, the latest being our Open Data and Consumer Consents work.
You can read our response in full here.