Centrica to use hot water tanks for frequency response in VPP
Centrica is to absorb “thousands” of residential hot water tanks into its virtual power plant (VPP) to provide flexibility to the grid.
Articles tagged with: frequency response
Tesco trials offering up fridges for frequency response
Tesco is trialling using refrigeration units to provide frequency response in a partnership with the University of Lincoln, IoT firm IMS Evolve and The Grimsby Institute.
French interconnector trip triggers flexibility providers into action
Flexibility providers sprung into action late last week after Britain’s interconnector suffered a trip, causing around 1GW of capacity to fall off the system.
Europe’s balancing markets still have ‘significant room’ for improvement
Balancing markets throughout Europe are opening up to decentralised power, but there is still “significant room” for mechanisms to improve further.
Flexibility opportunity worth £6 billion by 2030 as price cannibalisation concerns brushed off
The balancing and frequency markets will double in value by 2030 as the evolution of the power market creates £6 billion of investment opportunity for battery storage and other flexible and distributed generation assets.
Tesla and Anesco battery combination to deliver frequency response and national capacity
Food wholesaler Philip Dennis Foodservice has installed energy storage units totalling over 4MW at its Barnstaple offices in an effort to generate revenue from grid services, rather than making savings from behind-the-meter activity.
Scotland’s first sub-second response energy storage project opened
Scotland’s first utility-scale battery storage facility has been officially opened today, having begun delivering sub-second balancing services to National Grid at the end of June under a bespoke agreement secured before the hotly contested Enhanced Frequency Response (EFR) auction of 2016.
National Grid readies for same day frequency response auctions from June 2019
National Grid is to trial same day procurement of frequency response in order to ensure ‘less forecastable’ technologies such as demand side response (DSR) can take part.
Up to 140MW of capacity up for grabs in Ireland's first DS3 grid services auction
Up to 140MW of capacity will be procured under the first ever tender for Ireland’s new frequency response and balancing programme, with projects to go live by September 2021.