Consultation on two-year extension to current SONI Price Control (SRP20)

The Utility Regulator is publishing a consultation on the financial values necessary to extend SONI’s (System Operator for Northern Ireland) current price control by two years. 

In August 2023, following a public consultation, we published our decision to defer the start date of the next SONI price control by one year to 1 October 2026. In the intervening period, SONI subsequently requested a further year delay. The additional extension is to facilitate work associated with the governance programme and other key projects.

We are now consulting on licence modifications which will enable a two-year extension of the SONI Review of Prices (SRP20) Price Control Final Determination into the 2026-2027 tariff year. The SRP20 extension licence modifications will set the amount of revenue SONI will have to run its business for the two years beginning on 1 October 2025 and ending on 30 September 2027.

Further information:

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• 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 Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• 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. 
• Copies of all documents will be made available in large print, Braille, audio cassette and a variety of relevant minority languages if required.

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