BSC Insights about System Prices

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If significant events or changes occur within the electricity industry we will analyse and offer insight into what has happened and why. The impartial insight articles are written by our industry experts, who have a wealth of experience and knowledge. These findings are supported by a large amount of industry data.

These BSC Insights articles all relate to System Prices.

View BSC Insights: Using Open Data to map the financial impacts of failed Suppliers

BSC Insights: Using Open Data to map the financial impacts of failed Suppliers

In this BSC Insight, Muhammad Raees Usman, Product Analyst in our Analysis & Insight Team, outlines how you can use newly Open Data from the BSC Modification P398 Open Data Request service to gain an insight into the energy market. He does this in view of the unprecedented market conditions experienced in the second half of 2021 and how these conditions led to a substantial number of Supplier default events. The article also provides an insight in to how Python can be used to ingest Open data files for analysis.

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View BSC Insights: Why did the average System Price increase in 2021?

BSC Insights: Why did the average System Price increase in 2021?

In this BSC Insight our Senior Product Analyst, Emma Tribe, shows how the high wholesale gas prices have caused System Prices to increase to record levels in 2021.

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View BSC Insight: What is driving the latest increases in Credit Assessment Price?

BSC Insight: What is driving the latest increases in Credit Assessment Price?

In this BSC Insight article, Mehdi Jafari outlines the recent trends in forward market prices and how we measure the Credit Assessment Price (CAP) process effectiveness against the System Buy Price. The article also provides an update on our Insight Article in May 2021, where the sixth CAP change of 2021 was in process.

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View BSC insight: Forward Market Prices drive six CAP value reviews this year

BSC insight: Forward Market Prices drive six CAP value reviews this year

We issued a consultation on changing the Credit Assessment Price (CAP) value on 17 May 2021. This is the sixth time in 2021 that the CAP value is going to change. This is the most CAP change events to occur in the first five months of the year since the CAP weekly monitoring process was introduced in 2007.

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View BSC Insight: the impact of Trading Charges in 2020/21

BSC Insight: the impact of Trading Charges in 2020/21

In the 2020/21 financial year, the absolute cashflow for BSC Trading Charges was £2.96bn. This was the most cashflow settled in a financial year. In this BSC Insight our Analysis and Insight Senior Product Analyst, Emma Tribe, explains how BSC Trading Charges are settled by Elexon.

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