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Electricity Explained
In this blog our Energy Intelligence Manager James Kelloway introduces our Carbon Intensity app, a free resource aimed at empowering people to make more conscious decisions about how they consume…
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Electricity Explained
We’re moving closer to our ambition of periods of zero-carbon operations by 2025 and hit some significant milestones on our journey last year. Take a look back at how electricity was generated and…
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Electricity Explained
With another year over, the ESO looks back at how electricity was generated and used across 2022, and some of the notable events seen through the year. How we generated electricity in Great…
Electricity Explained
As Great Britain’s electricity system operator, our role is to move it around the country from where it’s generated to where it’s needed. We don’t create or sell electricity – there’s an…
Electricity Explained
Energy storage allows us to move energy through time, capturing it when we have too much and saving it for when we don’t have enough.When we have excess electricity, perhaps on a really windy day,…
Electricity Explained
It’s our job to keep the cost of running the system as low as possible, so we can keep energy bills down. One of the ways we do this is with constraint payments.When there are physical constraints…
Electricity Explained
Our role as Britain’s electricity system operator is to manage the flow of electricity around the grid so it’s available when people need it – and that means keeping the supply secure.Supply and…
Electricity Explained
Restoration refers to the process of restarting the grid following a power cut and it is a requirement for us, as the system operator, to have a process in place in the event of a partial or total…