DCC Price Control Consultation

This is the first review of DCC’s price control. DCC’s price control allows it to fund its economic and efficient costs during a period of uncertainty as it gears up to support the smart meter rollout. DCC is a monopoly provider of smart metering data and communications services to suppliers and networks. It is funded by gas and electricity consumers. We closely scrutinise DCC’s costs and revenues to ensure value for money.

This document sets out our proposals for DCC’s costs and revenues. Our proposals reflect a fair but challenging assessment of DCC’s costs, revenues and related activities during its first six months of operation. It also establishes some important principles about how we expect DCC to manage its costs in future.