News and events

The ESO has been awarded funding for the beta phase of the CrowdFlex project, which looks to understand consumer demand and domestic flexibility to demonstrate the benefits of the Virtual Energy System and will build interconnected models of consumer demand and flexibility This large-scale demonstrator will utilise data gathered from trials based on two kinds of domestic flexibility services:

We're delighted to become one of 12 engineering businesses to join the Royal Academy of Engineering’s new programme to provide impactful interventions that support inclusive leadership.

We’ve launched our Future Energy Scenarios giving industry the opportunity to explore different pathways to decarbonise the energy system in more detail.

Alongside the Energy Networks Association (ENA), we co-hosted a parliamentary event with a cross-party Parliamentary Renewable & Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG), to brief them on our work to improve grid connections.

A new evaluation commissioned by the ESO explores the reasons that consumer households participated in the Demand Flexibility Service in such numbers.

We’re trialling a Local Constraint Market (LCM) to access new sources of flexibility to help manage one of our most constrained boundaries in Scotland, the B6.