Reducing peak loads is a critical challenge for the future of the UK’s energy network. Currently, domestic power usage is responsible for two-thirds of peak demand. This drives up infrastructure costs and peak prices as networks face reducing capacity margin, wholesale price spikes and higher balancing costs.
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Discussion at a Power Responsive steering group in January, held by National Grid, pinpointed the “slow and consultation heavy” design and implementation process as being damaging to investor confidence in new or recent assets such as diesel and battery storage.
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Equal contract lengths in the capacity market with new power plants and simplified user-friendly balancing services would also enable businesses to utilise DSR to provide up to 9.8GW by flexing their demand and utilising onsite generation.
Businesses can bridge electricity capacity gap by 2020 Read More »
Having recently secured the exclusive UK rights to large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) from Dowell, a leading global provider, Ylem Energy will be showcasing the technology with a 1MW battery energy storage system that will be co-hosted at a UK-based landfill-gas generation site in the spring of 2019.
Biogas generation firm expands into flexibility Read More »
The Association of Decentralised Energy (ADE) said the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills had a “much better” understanding of energy users and their investment needs than the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
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Called Flex Assure, the Code of Conduct sets common standards for those who coordinate or ‘aggregate’ demand response from individual consumers.
ADE launches voluntary DSR Code of Conduct Read More »
