BSC Insights – Supporting changes in the energy system
BSC Insights: How flexibility markets could help trade in unused electricity and spare network capacity
Elexon is proposing that nationwide electricity ‘flexibility platforms’ are set up so that offers to provide ‘demand-side response’, or output from electricity storage facilities can be traded easily.
The buyers of storage output or demand-side response (DSR) services could include local electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) suppliers and businesses.
Published: October 2019
Elexon Insight: We could provide settlement services for low carbon heat
In this Elexon Insight Thomas Demetriades, Strategy Analyst, discusses the potential for more heat networks to be developed in Britain, and the support that Elexon could offer towards this. Published: May […]
BSC Insights: Our views on the next network price controls
In this insight piece, Jeremy Caplin, Market Architect at Elexon, talks about our response to Ofgem’s consultation on the methodology it will use to reset the network price controls from […]
BSC insights: Unlocking the benefits to end consumers
Nick Rubin looks at the transformations and challenges that exist in the electricity market and considers ways of unlocking the benefits to end consumers. This insight article was written as […]
BSC Insights: First day off for coal in 130 years…
David Thomas and Emma Tribe write about Friday 21 April 2017 which was the first day in 130 years where no electricity was generated by coal in the UK. But what’s filling the gap?
BSC Insights: white paper on multiple providers
Jon Spence’s white paper offers an Elexon view of how BSC central services could be adapted to offer Settlement solutions in support of individual customers buying electricity from more than […]