Constraint management

​Western Power Distribution (WPD) has awarded 222MW of flexibility in its sixth round of procurement.

​Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has released a new report, which details how a tool developed by Frontier Economics can compare the cost of flexibility with traditional network reinforcement.

​An outage at Western Link HVDC has led to record balancing mechanism payments of £30.9 million, according to Cornwall Insight.

​National Grid ESO has launched a Constraint Management Pathfinder RFI with the hope of adding a new service to its operations, aimed at reducing the cost of network constraints.