National Grid ESO fails to hit benchmarks as COVID-19 and extreme weather impact August
Throughout August, almost all of National Grid ESO’s performance indicators showed it falling below expectations.
Throughout August, almost all of National Grid ESO’s performance indicators showed it falling below expectations.
Renewable generation was up 32% year-on-year during Q2 2020, as the COVID-19 lockdown made Britain’s electricity ‘cleaner and cheaper, but harder to control’.
Ofgem is evaluating it balancing costs system after costs rose by 39% during lockdown.
For the first time ever, more electricity came from renewables than fossil fuels throughout the whole of Q1 2020.
SSE Generation has put in a request to National Grid ESO to defer the additional Balancing Services Use of System (BSUoS) costs caused by COVID-19.
Five companies are to provide National Grid ESO with inertia without the need to simultaneously provide electricity.
SSE's Distributed Energy arm is launching an energy as a service platform in a "landmark" partnership with Smarter Grid Solutions.
National Grid has set live a new platform for ancillary services, coming as part of a much larger plan to modernise its grid management toolkit.
Decarbonisation of the UK’s energy supply is slowing, Ofgem has warned, while the cost of balancing the UK’s power system spiked to its second-highest ever in 2017/18.