Innovation

Innovation is critical to helping us meet the challenges of transitioning to a zero carbon future. As we sit at the very heart of the energy system, we play a central role in overcoming these challenges.

We know innovators across Great Britain are committed to solving the toughest problems we face as an industry, which is why we are here to work together to enable change. Given our unique position, we will facilitate innovation across the whole energy system. 

Everything we do at NESO goes beyond the past and present, into the future of the energy system. We are challenging the status quo, improving on it, and providing a different perspective as an independent public organisation. 

Innovating to create value

Our innovative approach is already creating value, as these examples show:

• Accelerating the energy transition: We are applying transformational technologies to radically improve our analysis and forecasting, unlock more efficient operations, and support faster and more informed decision-making, all to further reduce system costs. 
• Future markets to accelerate progress: Our coherent whole energy market strategy allows us to continually and collaboratively design and test market reforms so we can accelerate the energy transition and stimulate market competition. 
• Improving constraint management: We are testing a range of approaches to economically mitigating limits on the amount of power that equipment can transmit. 
• Examining system stability and resilience: Through knowledge and data sharing, we have improved our understanding of how and why the system may be affected by different factors, helping us reduce the impacts of increasing system complexity.

We are on track to fully decarbonise the system by 2035. To help us achieve this, we have a portfolio of active innovation projects funded by both the Network Innovation Allowance (NIA), Network Innovation Competition (NIC) and Ofgem’s new Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).

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