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System
System Operating Plan (SOP)
As part of our daily planning processes within the ESO control room, the control room strategy team produces a System Operating Plan (SOP) at key demand peaks or troughs throughout the day, at what…
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Balancing costs
Current Balancing Services Use of System (BSUoS) Charges
There is a file for each run type we calculate a BSUoS charge for - Interim Initial (II), Settlement Final (SF) and Reconciliation Final (RF). These are updated daily with the actual Half Hourly…,…
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Ancillary services
Obligatory Reactive Power Service (ORPS)
The obligatory reactive power service (ORPS) is the provision of varying reactive power output. At any given output generators may be requested to produce or absorb reactive power to help manage…,…
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Constraint management
Thermal Constraint Costs
Thermal constraints are taken when the amount of energy that would flow naturally from one region to another exceeds the capacity of the circuits connecting the two regions. This dataset provides…
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Balancing costs
Monthly Balancing Services Use of System (BSUoS) Forecast Data
The Balancing Services Use of System (BSUoS) costs are reported on a monthly basis with a forecast for the next month and a rolling 24 month period. Here you can find the data for the 24 month ahead…
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Trading
Index Linked Contracted Energy Volume
Index Linked Contract can be used by National Grid ESO to meet the voltage voltage requirement . The contract is normally enacted in the morning ahead of the power exchange auction. The generator…
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Trading
Balancing Services Contract Enactment
National Grid ESO procures balancing service contracts to balance demand and supply and to ensure the security and quality of electricity supply across Britain's transmission system. For some of…
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Ancillary services
Firm Frequency Response (FFR) Post Tender Reports
The Firm Frequency Response (FFR) post tender reports are published following each monthly tender. They indicate which tenders were accepted and rejected and the information submitted for these…
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Ancillary services
Phase 2: FFR Auction Results Summary
As part of our work on developing our balancing services we ran a weekly trial auction for Firm Frequency Response. The weekly auction trial results and order hash data are available here., Note:,…