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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…
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…
Balancing services
Constraint management is required where the electricity transmission system is unable to transmit power to the location of demand, due to congestion at one or more parts of the transmission network…
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…
Strategic Energy Planning
Great Britain’s NETS must continue to adapt and be developed so power can be transported from source to demand, reliably and efficiently.
Strategic Energy Planning
National Electricity Transmission System (NETS)As the ESO, we are responsible for the system operation of the transmission networks in England, Wales, Scotland, and in the surrounding offshore…
Electricity Explained
Frequency literally means the number of times something happens over a period of time.
Electricity Explained
We estimate that up to 37.4 million Electric Vehicles (EVs) will be on UK roads by 2050 – that’s a huge increase on today, where there are fewer than 1 million. Such…
Electricity Explained
Gas is a fossil fuel which can be used to generate electricity. By burning gas, we create heat which powers a turbine. The rotation of this turbine spins a generator which creates electricity.…