National Grid ESO
The country was powered coal-free for around 5,147 hours last year, compared with 3,666 hours in 2019
Triads incentivise heavy commercial and industrial users of electricity to shift their power use to periods of lower demand, by charging a premium for high consumption at certain times.
Flexitricity has begun optimising Gresham House’s 50MW battery in South Yorkshire
They aim to dramatically accelerate the transition to low emission and low cost, secure and reliable power systems, contributing to more than 50% reduction of pollutants globally over the next 10 years
A new report notes up to 540GWh of wind power could be absorbed by domestic heating across off-gas grid Scotland in 2030, saving £24 million per year in wind constraint payments
It agreed to run at half capacity for a period of four months to help manage the impact of very low power demand on the grid
Tesla has become the first user to participate in National Grid ESO’s balancing mechanism scheme with the new application programming interface
Battery-powered households are set to provide 4MW of firm frequency response capacity to ESO throughout the day
On Saturday 22nd August at 1am, wind energy made up 59.1% of the UK’s electricity mix with turbines making up a 13.5GW share, according to National Grid ESO
The energy regulator says the cost of managing the grid during the period from March to July was 39% higher than expected