It is encouraging new market participants and offering £500 to flexible providers that pre-qualify on the Dynamic Purchasing System before 30th November 2022

It is in response to an anticipated risk of a local network becoming overloaded

The system will be virtually coupled with the energy company’s run-of-river power stations, which will boost the capacity of the batteries by an additional 15%

It is offering contracts up to 2028, covering system needs that will arise during the next electricity network price control period from 2023 to 2028

The Keadby 2 plant will have a total capacity of up to 840MW, with 63% efficiency