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Our Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) returns this winter, offering homes and businesses the opportunity to earn pounds, points, or prizes for flexing the time they use electricity. This helps manage…
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The first stages of the Open Balancing Platform (OBP) have gone live, revolutionising the balancing mechanism as we know it. The new cutting edge system will further optimise the operation…
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The first stage of this new platform will go live this week, to support the bulk dispatch of battery storage and small Balancing Mechanism Units.This will further optimise the operation of the…
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Our job is to balance the electricity system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year making sure homes and businesses have the power they need whenever it’s needed. We move electricity safely, reliably and…
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The ESO has been awarded funding for the beta phase of the CrowdFlex project, which looks to understand consumer demand and domestic flexibility to demonstrate the benefits of the Virtual Energy…
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To help accelerate energy sector digitalisation, and support the transition to net zero, our Virtual Energy System Programme and the National Digital Twin Programme, led by the UK…
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Following confirmation of market data the ESO can now confirm the outcomes of the first 6 test events and 2 live events held across November and December 2023.So far over 2.2 million businesses and…
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As part of our ongoing commitment to remove barriers to participation for distributed flexibility, the ESO will soon be admitting up to 300MW of aggregated assets into the Balancing Mechanism (BM…
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We recognise how important the impacts of our decision and system changes have on the Storage industry as we transition to net zero and want to ensure we do this in a collaborative way.On 12…
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The first Balancing Reserve (BR) auction for day ahead capacity ran successfully on our Enduring Auction Capability (EAC) platform, also utilising the capabilities of our Single Markets Platform (…