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National Grid procures 138.6MW of demand turn-up to balance grid in summer
National Grid has procured 138.6MW of fixed demand turn-up (DTU) provision, one of the ways it manages excess generation over spring and summer. Six...
‘Forget blackout Britain: Flexibility will solve capacity issue’
Policymakers should reject calls for the UK to return to double digit margins of power capacity over demand and let flexible plant and agile companies...
Energy minister: Transitional Capacity Auction could procure 200MW more DSR
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has given the green light for more power to be procured in the Transitional Capacity Auction...
Capacity market ‘buying the wrong stuff because it’s joined up with nothing’
The capacity market is buying the wrong stuff, because it’s a single-issue policy that joins up with nothing, according to Flexitricity founder and chief...
Capacity market confirmed at £6.95/kW, guaranteeing power firms £377m
The capacity market cleared at £6.95/kW, the EMR delivery body confirmed late Friday, equating to a guaranteed £377m for the UK's power generators.
Although results...
Name your own price: National Grid launches next demand turn-up tender
National Grid has opened the tender for this year's summer grid balancing programme, demand turn-up, inviting suppliers to name their own price.
Companies seeking contracts...
SmartestEnergy: 10,000 UK firms could save £20k via load shifting and demand-side response
Around 10,000 UK firms could make around £20,000 a year in cost savings or revenue by shifting or curtailing power use at peak times,...
National Grid to extend demand turn-up running hours, procure more
National Grid will extend the period for its demand turn-up (DTU) service to run from March to October next year. The system operator (SO)...
Capacity market remains too low for new gas, but gigawatts of DSR, CHP and...
The latest capacity market auction cleared at £22.50/kW, securing 52.4GW of winter power from 2020 at a total cost of £1.2bn. The outturn was...
National Grid mulls rolling all frequency response services into single scheme
National Grid has mooted rolling together its fastest system balancing programmes into a single pre-fault service. The system operator shared its thinking on simplification of...
Energy suppliers step up demand response aggregation efforts
Energy suppliers have been most active in targeting industrial and commercial firms in order to build demand-side response (DSR) portfolios, Ofgem data suggests.
The regulator’s...
When the wind doesn’t blow: Weather hits UK renewable generation
UK onshore wind generation output fell by 19% year-on-year for the three months to end of June 2016, contributing to an overall reduction in...
Public sector unconvinced by demand-side response
The bulk of the UK’s public sector estate remains unconvinced by demand-side response (DSR), shrugging off the best efforts of aggregators and energy suppliers,...
Demand Turn Up: What worked and what didn’t work in summer grid balancing trial?
National Grid's first demand turn up trial concluded at the end of September. The Energyst asked aggregators how they see the service taking shape.
Demand...
Dong Energy: Value of a flexible megawatt will increase, ‘so be careful where you...
Dong Energy managing director of sales, Jeff Whittingham, believes the value of electricity loadshifting will increase significantly over the next five years. As such,...
Trinity Mirror Group to earn up to £1m from demand-side response
Trinity Mirror Group hopes to earn between £800,000 and £1million from demand side response (DSR) this financial year.
The firm’s calculations are based on hitting all...
National Grid says 2020 DSR target “totally achievable”, mulls longer contracts
National Grid head of commercial operations Cathy McClay believes the system operator’s 2020 target to achieve up to half of grid balancing from demand-side...
Aggregators: Don’t fear disruption from demand-side response
Most operations have some degree of power consumption flexibility, according to aggregators, yet relatively few organisations participate in balancing services, according to The Energyst's...
Fear of disruption hobbling demand-side response uptake by UK firms – free report
A survey of 200 end-users finds most businesses are interested in earning revenue from demand-side response. However many continue to fear disruption to operations...
Last 10 free places for demand-side response conference next week
We have 10 remaining free tickets for end-user organisations* at our demand-side response conference in London next Thursday.
The aim of the event is to...