View provisional handover plan from Open Networks to market facilitator
Elexon has published a plan for the handover of flexibility market rule development from the Energy Networks Association’s (ENA) Open Networks programme.
The Open Networks programme brought together the electricity network companies and other industry specialists to lead the UK’s transition to a smart, flexible energy system ready for Net Zero, including a focus on expanding the role that flexibility plays in GB markets.
Maintaining momentum for flexibility markets
The plan explains the approach to transferring the outputs of the Open Networks programme from the ENA to Elexon. It articulates:
- how delivery will continue through the ENA’s Open Networks programme
- how responsibilities will transition to Elexon
- how progress will be made via the market facilitator in the lead up to the formal go live in late 2025
Transforming Open Networks outputs into flexibility market rules
During the rest of 2025, Elexon will transform the Open Networks outputs into the first version of clear and robust rules for flexibility markets.
Elexon will continue to develop new rules, both through market facilitator delivery, and ongoing aspects of the Open Networks Programme.
Elexon will also lay the foundations for the first of the two-year market facilitator delivery plans (covering 2026-27), which Ofgem will require Elexon to produce in line with the emerging market facilitator policy framework.
Outputs to be delivered in 2025
This year, we will be contributing to and handing over key Open Networks areas of work such as:
- The new, broader primacy rules
- A more common approach to Distribution System Operator baselining
- The development of the new dispatch API
We will also be delivering additionality through:
- Documenting an end-to-end process for the procurement and delivery of flexibility services
- A common Flexibility Market Asset Registration process.
- Defining the longer-term vision for market coordination
- A clearer understanding on how to use and adapt the standard agreement
- A robust framework for flexibility market rules and ensuring the rules we develop are as accessible, useable and maintainable as possible
Handover plan in full
Webinar about the handover plan
Elexon hosted a webinar on 2 April (2pm-3:30pm) to provide a detailed walkthrough of the handover plan.
Watch a recording of the webinar
Further information
If you have any questions about the webinar please email [email protected]