The Evaluative Performance Framework (EPF) is now an established process of SONI’s 2020 - 2025 price control. The EPF allows for an evaluation of SONI’s Annual Forward Plans and ultimately their performance.
Our independent panel of experts will soon review the SONI Forward Work Plan 2024/25, judging SONI against a set of evaluation criteria as per our published EPF Guidance. The panel will take into consideration all relevant evidence and the views of industry stakeholders.
Written feedback from stakeholders
To inform this process, we would encourage you to provide feedback on SONI’s Annual Forward Plan 2024/2025 by 12 noon on 7 November 2024.
Written feedback can be submitted to: Ruairi Liddy ruairi.liddy@uregni.gov.uk and cc Electricity_Networks_Responses@uregni.gov.uk
As per the Guidance we will share the stakeholder feedback with the EPF Panel and publish to our website (unless otherwise requested).
Stakeholder meeting – Wednesday 13 November 2024
We plan to host a stakeholder meeting at 10.00 am on 13 November 2024 at our office in Queens House (also hybrid). Both SONI and the EPF panel will be in attendance. This event will allow SONI to explain its Annual Forward Plan for 2024/2025 and allow stakeholders the opportunity to ask questions and / or provide direct feedback to SONI.
Further details of this stakeholder event will be communicated in due course. If you would like to register to attend, please contact: Ruairi Liddy ruairi.liddy@uregni.gov.uk
Assessment of the Annual Forward Plan
Following the November stakeholder meeting, the independent panel will make its assessment of SONI’s Forward Plan for 2024/2025. We will then publish a report detailing the panel’s assessment and their recommendation to us.
We will then make our determination on SONI’s performance (around end of January 2025). This determination will include the calculation of a financial reward or penalty using the method set out in the EPF guidance.
Information relating to your feedback
Please be advised your written response may be made public by the Utility Regulator. If you do not want all, or part, of your response or name made public, please state this clearly in the response by marking your response as ‘CONFIDENTIAL’.
If you want other information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please be aware that, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), there is a statutory Code of Practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals, amongst other things, with obligations of confidence. In view of this, it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential. Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with the access to information regimes (these are primarily the FOIA and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)).
As stated in the GDPR Privacy Statement for consumers and stakeholders, any personal data contained within your response will be deleted once the matter being consulted on has been concluded though the substance of the response may be retained.