Ofgem Data Services Platform Integration

Integrate your market, operational, and regulatory workflows with the Ofgem Data Services Platform (DSP) using 6B’s expert digital engineering and interoperability services. We deliver secure, scalable integrations that connect the DSP’s centralised retail market datasets with your billing, forecasting, portfolio management, settlement, and compliance systems — enabling improved data accuracy, automated reporting, and streamlined regulatory processes across the UK energy ecosystem.

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6B works with energy suppliers, generators, metering providers, flexibility operators, aggregators, networks, and regulatory teams to integrate the Ofgem DSP with upstream operational data sources and downstream commercial and compliance systems. Using APIs, secure data pipelines, validation layers, automated workflows, and cloud-native architectures, we enable robust, auditable, and high-quality data exchange across all DSP-enabled processes. From discovery through deployment and ongoing optimisation, we ensure your DSP integration is accurate, reliable, and future-proof.

Understanding the Ofgem Data Services Platform

The Ofgem Data Services Platform (DSP) is a centralised data ecosystem designed to streamline data exchange across the GB retail energy market. It supports market-wide half-hourly settlement (MHHS), consumption data access, registration information, forecasting inputs, settlement calculations, reporting, and market participant assurance.

The DSP provides secure APIs, data extraction endpoints, ingestion mechanisms, standardised data formats, and role-based access controls for market participants. It centralises core datasets — such as metering, consumption, settlement, and registration data — enabling more transparent, accurate, and consistent workflows across suppliers, DNOs, metering agents, and industry bodies.

Integrating directly with the DSP allows organisations to automate data ingestion, improve data quality, support MHHS compliance, and unlock advanced forecasting, portfolio analytics, and customer insight capabilities.

Our Ofgem DSP Integration Process

Each integration begins with a comprehensive discovery phase to understand your market roles, data dependencies, operational workflows, IT landscape, and regulatory obligations. Whether you need automated half-hourly data ingestion, portfolio reconciliation, settlement processing, forecasting support, or regulatory reporting automation, we map your objectives to the DSP’s interfaces, data structures, and security model.

Our architects then design a secure, scalable integration architecture using DSP APIs, event-driven data pipelines, microservices, ETL workflows, or scheduled synchronisation depending on your operational needs. We also address essential non-functional requirements including auditability, latency, cybersecurity, data retention, and compliance with MHHS and Ofgem governance frameworks.

During development, we leverage reusable integration accelerators — DSP data mapping templates, validation and exception handlers, transformation pipelines, role-based authentication modules, and monitoring dashboards — to accelerate delivery and ensure robust engineering. Integrations are rigorously tested for accuracy, performance, data consistency, security, and compliance.

Once validated, we deploy your DSP integration with minimal operational disruption, coordinating closely with operations, billing, metering, forecasting, and compliance teams. After go-live, we provide ongoing monitoring, optimisation, enhancements, and market-driven updates to keep your DSP integration aligned with evolving regulatory requirements.

Benefits of Ofgem DSP Integration

Integrating your systems with the DSP offers major operational, commercial, and regulatory benefits. Automated access to half-hourly consumption and market data improves forecasting, settlement accuracy, portfolio analytics, and customer billing integrity.

DSP integration reduces manual data handling, eliminates discrepancies, and strengthens compliance processes for MHHS and wider market governance. It also supports improved data transparency across change of supplier processes, customer journeys, meter readings, and portfolio movements.

For suppliers and aggregators, DSP integration improves risk modelling, enhances customer analytics, and supports better hedging and pricing strategies. For operations and compliance teams, automated workflows deliver stronger audit trails, reduced effort, and improved regulatory assurance.

Why Choose 6B for Ofgem Data Services Platform Integration?

Deep experience integrating energy market platforms, settlement engines, forecasting systems, metering data flows, and regulatory reporting tools.

Proven engineering capability using DSP APIs, secure ingestion endpoints, microservices, validation pipelines, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native integration patterns.

Reusable accelerators — validation engines, mapping templates, reconciliation modules, authentication handlers, and monitoring dashboards — enabling faster, more reliable delivery.

Strong cybersecurity posture with encryption, access controls, audit logging, secure gateways, and alignment with ISO 27001, MHHS security requirements, and Ofgem governance.

End-to-end delivery covering discovery, architecture, development, testing, deployment, optimisation, and long-term support for compliance-critical systems.

Ofgem Data Services Platform Integration FAQs

What systems can be integrated with the Ofgem Data Services Platform?

The DSP can integrate with billing systems, forecasting platforms, CRM tools, metering systems, settlement engines, portfolio management tools, data warehouses, and analytics environments using secure APIs and ingestion endpoints.

Does the DSP support real-time or near real-time data access?

The DSP primarily supports scheduled and near real-time access to market and consumption data, depending on data type and participant role. Integrations can be designed for frequent polling or event-driven ingestion.

How long does an Ofgem DSP integration project typically take?

Timelines depend on your market role, the number of workflows involved, data complexities, and internal system maturity. Smaller integrations may take 10–14 weeks, while larger multi-system implementations may take several months.

Can the DSP integrate with MHHS (Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement) processes?

Absolutely. The DSP is central to MHHS, and integrations can automate half-hourly consumption ingestion, settlement calculations, forecasting workflows, and compliance reporting to meet MHHS requirements.

How do you ensure data security and regulatory compliance during DSP integration?

We apply strong encryption, secure API gateways, role-based access control, audit logging, and ISO 27001-aligned processes. Integrations follow Ofgem DSP governance and MHHS security obligations.

Does the DSP support large-scale data ingestion and historical data access?

Yes. The DSP is designed to handle high-volume half-hourly and market data. Integrations can scale to ingest large datasets for analytics, forecasting, and reconciliation use cases.

Do you provide ongoing support after the DSP integration is live?

Yes. We provide continuous monitoring, optimisation, regulatory-driven updates, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management to keep your DSP integration compliant and reliable as market rules evolve.

Can DSP integration improve billing and settlement accuracy?

Yes. Automated ingestion of half-hourly data, registration updates, and settlement inputs reduces discrepancies, improves billing accuracy, enhances reconciliation, and strengthens financial performance.