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Community Choice Aggregation

Data Exchange Guides & Tools

Please use the following implementation and mapping guides when exchanging customer information between the ESP and SCE for billing, DASR, metering data, and account maintenance. Please review guidelines for the areas below:

Please note that electronic data interchange (EDI) format is a requirement for both billing and CCASR data exchange.

Please refer to the CCA handbook for complete data exchange protocol. SCE guidelines are UIG compliant and conform to ANSI X12 standards. Visit the UIG Web site to obtain mapping guides for each EDI transaction set.

Guidelines: Billing Data Exchange (PDFs)

Guidelines: CCASR Processing (PDFs)

Guidelines: Meter Usage Data

Beginning April 1, 2000, in accordance with the California Public Utilities Commission Decision (D.) 98-12-080 mandating the migration of meter usage data to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), SCE will continue to provide monthly usage data for interval meters and reads/usage data for non-interval meters in EDI format. As of May 15, 2000, SCE will begin providing historical usage data to Electric Service Providers (ESPs) in EDI format.

Monthly Meter Data

Southern California Edison follows the California Transaction Set 867 mapping guide (PDF) in its entirety except where indicated.

For monthly usage data, the separate CMEP and EDI files can be identified by filename. CMEP files will continue to be named "FILENAME.CMEP" EDI formatted files will be named "FILENAME.EDI". If you currently retrieve your files by logging onto the MDMA server using a browser, you can choose to retrieve the CMEP file, the EDI file, or both. If you are currently using the "Getfilenames" CGI script, you can continue to do so. However, the scripts will continue to retrieve the CMEP formatted filenames only. You can retrieve EDI filenames with this script by changing "Getfilenames" to "GetEDIfilenames."

Historical Meter Data

The historical data will be posted to SCE's MDMA server in compliance with the EDI 867 (v.4010) UIG transaction set. This data will be posted at acceptance, and again at completion, of the Community Choice Aggregation Service Request (CCASR.) Files containing historical data will end with a ".hst" suffix.

Please note: SCE no longer provides historical data according to California Metering Exchange Protocol (CMEP).

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