Category: Demand side response
Opening access to the Balancing Mechanism for smaller aggregated assets
National Grid recently published a roadmap to widening access to the Balancing Mechanism to smaller, distributed assets and demand-side response. The increasing de-centralisation of the electricity sy... Read More
Developing local flexibility markets
In recent weeks, much has been made of the fact that coal has dropped out of the merit order for days at a time. While much of the commentary is around trying to prove that the system can run just fin... Read More
Local flexibility markets mark the emergence of the new DSOs
The electricity system is in transition. Transmission connected, centralised synchronous generation is being displaced by multiple small installations of intermittent asynchronous generation connected... Read More
Changing regulatory landscape for electricity storage is not all good news
The last couple of months have seen some interesting newsflow in relation to electricity storage. Storage projects are increasingly popular, with developments occurring at every level of the system fr... Read More
The DSR market is slowly developing, but more needs to be done to encourage participation
Last week Energyst published its latest report into the demand side response market, which confirmed the findings of previous reports, that businesses are generally positive about DSR as long as opera... Read More
Building energy efficiency forecasts appear to be largely useless
Following on from my previous post on energy efficiency, I was very interested to read about a recent study by the University of Bath which shows a significant gap between the forecast energy efficien... Read More
Energy efficiency measures should be a no-brainer, so why are businesses so reluctant?
This week I attended an event run by the Energy Institute on whether in the context of the UK’s industrial strategy the policy can keep up with the energy market. One comment that was made repeatedl... Read More
Solar spurs growth in turn-up DSR
The need for the new Turn-Up DSR service was clearly shown on Saturday 25 March when daytime electricity demand fell below overnight demand for the first time, due to high levels of solar PV generatio... Read More