Generation and Demand Capacity: News
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Spring 2024 BSC Season
The Spring BSC Season begins on 1 March 2024. The deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the Season is 15 February 2024.
Even if the values are identical to the last BSC Season you need to submit values for the new Season.
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Winter 2023 BSC Season
The Winter BSC Season begins on Friday 1 December 2023. The deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the Summer BSC Season is Thursday 16 November 2023.
Even if the values are identical to the last BSC Season you need to submit values for the new Season.
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Autumn 2023 BSC Season
The Autumn BSC Season begins on Friday 1 September 2023. The deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the Summer BSC Season is Thursday 17 August 2023.
Even if the values are identical to the last BSC Season you need to submit values for the new Season.
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity for Summer 2023 BSC Season
The Summer BSC Season begins on 1 June 2023 and if you are using the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution, the deadline for submitting your Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) values for the Season is 16 May 2023.
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Spring 2023 BSC Season
The Spring BSC Season begins on 1 March. If you are using the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution, the deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the season is 14 February.
Submission of Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) for the Winter 2022 BSC Season
The Winter BSC Season 2022 begins on 1 December. If you are using the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution, the deadline for submitting your GC and DC values for the season is 16 November.
Autumn 2022 BSC Season Changes
As you may be aware, the Credit Assessment Price (CAP) is due to increase in the next few days. Your BM Unit CALF Values and your declared Generation Capacity (GC) and Demand Capacity (DC) values are used in the Credit Assessment Energy Indebtedness (CEI) calculation of your Credit Indebtedness.
With the recent increases in the CAP, it is important to check whether your DC and GC values are correct and that you have reviewed the Credit Assessment Load Factor (CALF) values that Elexon has calculated to ensure that they accurately represent the expected Balancing Mechanism (BM) Unit activity.
Deadline approaching: Submission of GC/DC values for Winter 2021
The Winter BSC Season starts on Wednesday 1 December and the deadline is approaching for Parties to submit their Generation Capacity (GC) and a Demand Capacity (DC). There are two different ways you can submit these values. If you use Elexon Kinnect, the final deadline for submitting GC/DC values via the Customer Solution is 17:00 on Friday 12 November. If you are submitting the values by the BSCP15/4.3 form, the deadline for submission is 17:00 on Wednesday 17 November.
2021 submission deadlines for Spring GC/DC values
The deadline for submitting your Generation and Demand Capacity (GC/DC) values for the Spring BSC Season is Friday 12 February 2021, if submitting via Elexon Kinnect. Alternatively, the deadline is Monday 15 February 2021, if submitting to the Central Registration Agent (CRA).
BSC Insights: Great Britain’s first coal-free Christmas occurs in 2020
Mehdi Jafari investigates the electricity generation and demand over the Christmas period 2020.
Insights: Update on Demand Reduction during COVID-19 lockdown
In this Insight, our Data & Insight Analyst, Nick Baker provides an update to the reduced electricity demand during lockdown article with the latest findings. The new graphs can be used to track electricity demand changes in Great Britain as COVID-19 restrictions start to ease.
Insights: Electricity demand down by 17% during COVID-19 lockdown
Measures put in place by the UK Government to control the COVID-19 outbreak have resulted in electricity demand falling sharply in the GB electricity market, according to Elexon data estimates. In this Elexon Insight, our Data & Insight Analyst, Nick Baker investigates the scale of the demand reduction.