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Balancing services
Our Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) returns this winter, offering homes and businesses the opportunity to earn pounds, points, or prizes for flexing the time they use electricity. This helps manage…
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Control room operations
Our new Enduring Auction Capability (EAC) platform enables market participants to bid on opportunities to deliver multiple frequency response services simultaneously for the first time.What is the…
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Connections
Following a year-long process conducted with industry and wider stakeholders to identify the longer-term reforms needed to improve the connections process, we’ve set out our final recommendations.…
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Control room operations
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be responsible for keeping Great Britain’s lights on? Now you can find out by playing our Balancing the Grid game.Start your shift in our Electricity…
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Balancing services
The first stages of the Open Balancing Platform (OBP) have gone live, revolutionising the balancing mechanism as we know it. The new cutting edge system will further optimise the operation…
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Balancing services
The first stage of this new platform will go live this week, to support the bulk dispatch of battery storage and small Balancing Mechanism Units.This will further optimise the operation of the…
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Balancing services
Our job is to balance the electricity system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year making sure homes and businesses have the power they need whenever it’s needed. We move electricity safely, reliably and…
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Future energy
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…
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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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Future energy
To help accelerate energy sector digitalisation, and support the transition to net zero, our Virtual Energy System Programme and the National Digital Twin Programme, led by the UK…