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Electricity North West (ENW) has deferred £20 million of network reinforcement work over the past 12 months through flexibility contracts.
The network operator is now seeking to build on its flexibility offerings and is launching a new tender for flex services.
In total, the latest tender is seeking to procure 486MW of flexibility across 29 Locations in Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. It is worth over £7 million during a four-year period.
The tender is now available on both ElectronConnect and Piclo Max.
“Our spring flexibility tender reflects our commitment to a more inclusive and accessible flexibility market,” said Ben Grunfeld, strategy and growth director at Electricity North West.
“We are seeking significant capacity from across the North West, and we are making it easier for flexibility providers to participate through industry-leading platforms like ElectronConnect and Piclo Max.”
Last year, ENW launched its largest ever flexibility tender, where the firm sought more than 1GW of flexible capacity across its region.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution has also recently announced that it has deferred £44 million of reinforcement work by using flexibility services instead. In total, SSEN has procured 700MW of flexibility during the past year.
UKPN has also recently submitted its first annual DSO report, claiming to have delivered £199 million of net benefits to customers over the first 12 months following its establishment as a legally separate entity in April last year.
In January 2024 Utility Week established its Flexibility Forum, in association with our strategic partner CGI, to help break down barriers to energy flexibility growth and provide an independent setting for sense-checking the direction of travel in flexibility market governance and regulation. The Flexibility Forum community includes stakeholders from across the energy value chain. Outputs from the forum to date include a report of the status of demand side flexibility markets in GB and a review of the discussion at the Forum’s first meeting.
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