Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2020-2021

This provides outturn system costs for maintaining voltage levels on the network, along with a network diagram which displays the different voltage requirement areas.

Map of outturn voltage costs

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Table Information

Settlement Month

Title Settlement Month
Type date
Description Total cost per Settlement Month. Date presented visually as 01/MMM/YYYY but represents the whole 'Month'.
Comment
Example 01/09/2019
Unit

Voltage Constraint Group

Title Voltage Constraint Group
Type string
Description Defined voltage requirement areas.
Comment Voltage levels across the network need to be maintained across these 19 voltage requirement areas.
Example Dumfries & Galloway
Unit

Sync Costs (£m)

Title Sync Costs
Type number
Description Costs in the balancing mechanism to run the unit. From trades and balancing mechanism actionss
Comment
Example 0
Unit £(m)

Utilisation Costs (£m)

Title Utilisation Costs (£m)
Type number
Description AS costs for voltage.
Comment Payments to increase or decrease Mvars
Example 0.097390738
Unit £(m)

Coordinates

Title Coordinates
Type geopoint
Description Co-ordinates to geographically map the Voltage Constraint Group area.
Comment
Example (54.495568, -2.7246094)
Unit