Local Constraint Market | National Grid ESO

Local Constraint Market

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 boundary's.

The anticipated growth in renewable generation in Scotland is increasing power transfer across the Scottish boundaries, which are forecast to increase constraints at the B6 boundary and ultimately costs to the end consumer.

The B6 boundary separates the transmission network at the SP Transmission and National Grid Transmission interface running roughly along the border between Scotland and England.

We have committed as part of the ESO 5-Point plan to deliver a Local Constraint Market to help tackle the rising constraint costs at the B6 boundary.

Taking the learnings from the delivery of the Optional Downward Flexibility Management (ODFM) service, we’re keen to develop a market that facilitates access to new providers of flexibility and provide competition to the Balancing Mechanism – our existing market for the majority of transmission constraint management.

We have now contracted a 3^rd party platform provider to manage the end-to-end process.

Service Design

Having previously engaged with stakeholders and our operational teams to develop a draft service design for the LCM, we are now in a position to invite industry views and feedback on our upcoming launch of service trials. We have therefore extended our light-touch consultation to share improvements made to the design and to ensure the LCM service meets the requirements of all stakeholders.

Please take the time to review our updated draft service design and respond using the proforma provided by 18:00 Monday 9th^th January 2023.

Please submit your response (as a word document) to:

Email: [email protected]
Subject line: LCM Service Design Consultation

For any questions, please contact [email protected]

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LCM Draft Service Design - March 2022
LCM Trials and Design Consultation - Launch Response Proforma - December 2022
LCM Product and Service Design - December 2022