Energy flexibility

SP Energy Networks signs two-year flexibility deal with Piclo

Energy sector ‘lacks ambition’ on digital innovation, says techUK leader

DFS expected to provide at least three times as much capacity

Octopus customers first to help ESO balance grid

Long-stay car parks could unlock 4.3GW of flexible energy

Households to provide flexibility in Balancing Mechanism for first time

Transmission charges should reflect forecast future network

DFS must not punish those unable to take part

Unblocking Energy Flexibility

The importance of being flexible

Over the last five years, Piclo has staked out a leading position as the main market for the procurement of flexibility by DNOs. However, the company’s initial aim was to create markets for peer-to-peer energy trading by consumers. Utility Week speaks to its chief executive and co-founder James Johnston about its early pivot towards network tenders, its ongoing evolution alongside these markets, and the prospects for a return to peer-to-peer trading.

Ofgem seeks views on how to ramp up domestic flexibility

Piclo opposes distributed energy supermarket model

Further enhancements to gas demand flexibility mechanism

Northern Powergrid inks deal with Piclo Flex marketplace

Green light for world’s largest battery storage scheme

Sending the right signals

Octopus: Customers suffer every time MHHS is delayed

Major milestone for ESO’s Local Constraint Market

The first end-to-end transactions of flexibility services for the ESO’s Local Constraint Market have been heralded as a success. A “world-first” trial saw households in Scotland increase their energy consumption to keep wind turbines online. The trial, led by Piclo, saw customers paid to turn-up their low carbon flex assets including heat pumps, electric vehicle chargers and electric heating.

Time-of-use tariff growth will squash demand diversity, warn network leaders

The arrival of market-wide half-hourly settlement (MHHS) will bring an end to demand diversity and create new overloading risks for power networks, industry leaders have told Utility Week. An industry veteran and energy flexibility expert said that if MHHS leads to widespread uptake of new time-of-use tariffs – as many anticipate – then the price signals associated with these will substantially flatten out variations in demand and could lead to network overloads.

Innovations sought to unlock flexibility markets

The government has launched a dedicated fund to develop technical solutions which can unlock “untapped” flexibility markets. The £2.6 million Flex Markets Unlocked Innovation Programme has been established to find technical solutions “that can facilitate system-wide coordination, standardisation, and revenue stacking across multiple flexibility markets [to] allow a more diverse and competitive marketplace, unlocking flexibility”.