Our projects
At NESO our projects all contribute towards our effort to make the grid ready to operate with 100% zero carbon electricity by 2025.
Innovation projects
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).
You can find out more about our projects below or find our whole portfolio on the ENA Smarter Networks Portal.
Distributed ReStart
Here you can find out about the Distributed ReStart project. Learn about the project’s benefits, its partners, and the workstreams that delivered its outputs.
Virtual Energy System
In 2021 we launched an ambitious, industry-wide mission to digitise our energy system. We call it the Virtual Energy System.
Crowdflex
CrowdFlex explores how domestic flexibility can be used in grid operations while empowering consumers to be active players in reducing their energy bills via new tariffs and incentives.
Strategic projects
Early Competition
Early Competition is a competitive process to select a bidder a solution or a specific need on GB's electricity transmission system. The process begins ‘early’, prior to the detailed design, surveying and consenting phases of solution development.
Net Zero Market Reform
NESO’s Net Zero Market Reform programme was established in early 2021 to examine holistically the changes to current GB electricity market design that will be required to achieve net zero.
Stability Market Design
The Stability Market Design project will consider current GB stability arrangements and investigate the best option for an end-to-end stability market design.
Whole Energy Market Strategy (WEMS)
Our Whole Energy Market Strategy team was established in early 2024 to develop an independent view of cross vector market interactions, providing recommended solutions to tackling challenges, conflicts and inefficiencies to facilitate net zero.
Power Potential
Power Potential is a ground-breaking collaboration between NESO, UK Power Networks and generators on the south coast distribution network.
Resource adequacy
Resource adequacy assesses the potential risks to security of supply and whether there are sufficient available resources to meet electricity demand throughout the year.
Network Planning Review
The Network Planning Review (NPR) has been established by NESO to ensure that network design and investment processes in GB are fit for the future.
Offshore Coordination Project
Offshore wind has been identified as a critical technology in achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In order to help realise this target, a step-change in both the speed and scale of deployment of offshore wind is required.