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Electricity Explained
Inertia, frequency, voltage, thermal, constraints…these are just a few of the factors that go into the highly complex process of balancing the grid.But don’t worry if you’re not up to speed on the…
Electricity Explained
The electricity market in Great Britain is a complex intersection of engineering and economics. Generators supply the electricity that consumers demand. The physical connections between demand and…
Electricity Explained
Wind is all around us. It’s clean, it’s free (at point of generation) and is a reliable source of energy for countries all around the world. Every day, wind turbines capture the wind’s power and…
Markets
The ESO has a central role today in GB energy market design. The MAC has recently been established to inform our approach to strategic market design and delivery, based on robust evidence,…
Strategic Energy Planning
The ETYS 2023 is just one of the publications that make up the suite of documents.We provide appendices that contain all the data workbooks and diagrams so you can see how we came to the…
Strategic Energy Planning
The region includes the high demand area of London, generation around the Thames estuary, and the long set of circuits that run around the south coast and South Wales.Interconnection to central…
Strategic Energy Planning
The East of England region includes the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Strategic Energy Planning
The north of England transmission region includes the transmission network between the Scottish border and the north Midlands. This includes the upper north boundaries B7a and B8. The map below…
Strategic Energy Planning
The Holistic Network Design (HND) is a first of its kind, integrated approach for connecting 23GW of offshore wind to Great Britain.By considering future offshore generation out to 2030,…
Strategic Energy Planning
The onshore transmission network in Scotland is owned by SSEN Transmission and SP Transmission. The Scottish NETS is divided into 7 boundaries:B0 – Upper North SSEN TransmissionB1a – North West…