Consumer Consent decision

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Supply and Retail Market

Today, we are publishing our decision to appoint the Retail Energy Code Company (RECCo) as the Delivery Body. RECCo will develop and deliver an enduring, system wide digital Consumer Consent Solution (CC Solution). This solution will enable consumers to grant and manage consent to share their energy data.  

We have built our evidence base for requiring the development of a CC Solution through a Call for Input, a Consultation, and a series of workshops and other engagements. Having selected our minded-to positions and approached industry and interested parties for views through the consultation, we have reached decisions on where there was consensus.  

The scope and purpose of this decision document is to set out the responses received and the emergent themes in responses and how they have informed our positions. Secondly, to explain and detail the decisions we have taken, namely that: 

  • RECCo is selected as the Delivery Body for the CC Solution  
  • the data model considered should be a hybrid model with more decentralised aspects
  • we will produce and consult on an Impact Assessment (IA) created with support from RECCo
  • the initial funding of the development will be from RECCo’s cost recovery mechanism
  • we are setting up a series of working groups to inform the detail for the CC Solution which RECCo will deliver. Details for these groups are published alongside this document