In this week’s edition of Current± Price Watch – powered by Enact – we take a look at the use of National Grid ESO’s Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) and contingency coal units, as well as how interconnectors were key to managing a fault on the electricity network.

Global private equity investor The Riverside Company, has acquired EnAppSys, the data analytics provider for European markets, as an add-on to its Montel AS platform.

RenewableUK has announced that its chief executive, Melanie Onn, is to step down at the end of March this year.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced an additional £27.6 million of funding from the Faraday Battery Challenge to support battery research and development projects to “drive the growth of a strong battery business in the UK.”

RenewableUK’s executive director of policy Ana Musat has called on the UK Government to compete with the US Inflation Reduction Act by creating an “attractive policy and regulatory environment” for potential investors and developers.

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has backed the SMS plc-led research project that uses ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT)-enabled smart meters to provide tailored solutions and allow consumers to improve the energy efficiency of households.

The HOMEflex project, led by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Distribution (SSEN), has published a report into required standards for the domestic flexibility market to inform the development of a Code of Conduct, which will ensure consumer protection keeps abreast with market innovation.

Sev.En Energy and Guangdong Energy have concluded the sale of InterGen transferring ownership of the company’s UK operations to the CRESITAS Group.

​Humane Energy has called on the Government to protect customers from systemic abuse of smart-meters novel, remotely programmable, features.

Moto, one of the UK’s largest motorway services operators, plans to install just over 1,600 ultra-rapid EV chargers by the end of the decade.