Balancing Services

If you're looking to supply balancing services, find the information you need to participate, and get further support.

If you're completely new to balancing services, start here. Balancing the grid is a complex activity and we ensure electricity supply meets demand. This is what we mean by 'balancing' the grid.

This innovative new service offers incentives for flexing the times when consumers use electricity, helping us to manage the electricity system during peak demand.

We ensure there is sufficient generation and demand to control system frequency. Services include new Dynamic Response, Mandatory Frequency Response and Firm Frequency Response.

These services provide us with access to sources of extra power when it's needed the most. Our reserve services are designed to deliver power across a range of timescales.

We are exploring the development of a new Local Constraint Market to access new sources of flexibility to help manage one of our most constrained boundaries.

Read about the techniques and services we use to help maintain the security and quality of electricity supply across Britain's transmission system.

These services help us ensure voltage levels on the system stay within a specific range. We instruct generators or other asset owners to either absorb or generate reactive power.

Access trade information data, trading instruments and requirements for trading.

A successful path to zero carbon necessitates changes to our existing Electricity System Restoration preparation arrangements. 

See how we're developing new, faster-acting frequency response products as part of a new suite of services.

We're exploring potential solutions to reform our reactive power services which will help to address the challenges we are facing for system voltage control.

We're exploring potential solutions to reform our reactive power services which will help to address the challenges we are facing for system voltage control.

Pathfinder projects aim to find solutions to the challenges of the electricity system with increasing renewable and low carbon generation.

The Stability Markets allow ESO to secure operation of the network at lowest cost to consumers.

Our Balancing Service contracts incorporate certain clauses from the Energy Networks Association (ENA) general flexibility service terms.

Everything you need to know about settlements, including how to change your details, raising a dispute and an explanation of charges and payments.

Find out how we are widening access to the Balancing Mechanism, helping us to transform Britain's energy mix towards a zero carbon energy system.

A stakeholder-led programme created to stimulate increased participation in flexible technologies such as Demand Side Response (DSR) and storage.

The Single Markets Platform provides access to ESO markets. Get our SMP user guide, access to video tutorials and details of our workshops.

The EAC platform will be used for order submission, running the algorithm to clear the auction, and send results back to providers. Find out more here.