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Electricity North West launched its largest flexibility tender to date, seeking more than 1GW of flexible capacity across 30 locations.
The distribution network operator said contracts worth more than £10 million will be up for grabs in the tender – it’s eleventh so far – which will procure services for the period 2023 to 2028.
Potential providers have been invited to register for the tender on the Piclo Flex platform and pre-qualify their assets by 27 January 2023. The bidding window will open from 13-24 February 2023.
Lois Clark, DSO commercial manager at Electricity North West (ENW) said: “Stakeholder feedback has been essential in developing the flexibility market in the North West.
“Following our consultation in September, we have published half hourly forecasts of our requirements for the next five years within our Autumn tender. This allows us to offer longer term flexibility contracts to providers and demonstrates our commitment to transparency and market engagement.
“We also responded to customer feedback calling for a more streamlined approach for submitting a tender response and we worked with PicloFlex to integrate the pre-qualification questionnaire onto the platform which will allow providers to complete all steps of the procurement in one place.”
According to the Energy Networks Association, the six distribution network operators in Great Britain contracted a total of 1.9GW of flexibility in 2021/22, having tendered for at least 3.6GW.
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