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News : Balancing services
Demand Flexibility Service approved for 2023/24 winter
Energy regulator Ofgem has today approved the updated terms of our Demand Flexibility Service, and the service will be available from Monday 30 October.Households and businesses can participate via…
News : Connections
‘Get on, get back or get out of the energy queue’ - ESO announces urgent action to speed up electricity grid connections by up to 10 years
Following on from our five-point-plan, we are today introducing additional targeted reforms to further speed up connections to the electricity grid.If energy generators are not progressing their…
News : Energy 101
Britain's Electricity Explained: 2022 Review
With another year over, the ESO looks back at how electricity was generated and used across 2022, and some of the notable events seen through the year. How we generated electricity in Great…
News : Energy 101
Britain's Electricity Explained: 2023 Review
We’re moving closer to our ambition of periods of zero-carbon operations by 2025 and hit some significant milestones on our journey last year. Take a look back at how electricity was generated and…
News : Future energy
ESO signs Memorandum of Understanding with the National Digital Twin Programme
To help accelerate energy sector digitalisation, and support the transition to net zero, our Virtual Energy System Programme and the National Digital Twin Programme, led by the UK…
News : Balancing services
2.2 million sign up to Demand Flexibility Service
Following confirmation of market data the ESO can now confirm the outcomes of the first 6 test events and 2 live events held across November and December 2023.So far over 2.2 million businesses and…
News : About NESO
ESO announces the name of the forthcoming Future System Operator
Major component of last Autumn’s Energy Act moving forward at paceThe new organisation will be known as “National Energy System Operator” (NESO)A public corporation, NESO will be an independent,…
News : Strategic planning
ESO to deliver consumer savings through early start of new constraint management service
ESO is awarding early-start contracts to manage constraints in the East-Anglia region. The service is expected to start in February 2024.The service has previously proven its value by saving…
News : Balancing services
ESO to make change allowing up to 300MW of flexible assets into the Balancing Mechanism
As part of our ongoing commitment to remove barriers to participation for distributed flexibility, the ESO will soon be admitting up to 300MW of aggregated assets into the Balancing Mechanism (BM).…
News : Balancing services
New Balancing Reserve service approved by Ofgem
Ofgem has approved our new Balancing Reserve (BR) service, which we expect to reduce consumer costs by hundreds of millions over the next four years. We expect the service to go live next month.…