BSC Insights – The electricity market
BSC Insight: Impact of COVID-19 on smart meter installations
The restrictions introduced in 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19 have provided unprecedented challenges for Suppliers as they continue to install smart meters. In this Insight article, our Analysis and Insight Analyst Hussein Osman, reviews the installation rates of Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications SMETS2 meters before, during, and after the March to June and November to December 2020 lockdowns.
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: The electricity industry – ten years of change
The 2010s were a period of significant change for both Elexon and the wider industry. The shifts seen during the span of ten years were both unprecedented and unpredicted. Elexon provides a wealth of data to industry via the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Elexon Portal and through data flows. Using some of this data we have created four graphs that reflect on significant changes to generation, demand and balancing between 2010 and 2019.
BSC Insight: Rapid decline in coal-fired generation
In this Insight piece, Angus Fairbairn, Market Analyst at Elexon, looks at the data behind the major reduction in coal generation in Britain which has been making headlines in April […]
BSC Insights: Innovation and change – making it real
Mark Bygraves, CEO at Elexon, attended the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies (PGES) and has produced an insight article on how he thinks the industry can introduce innovation and change.
Published: June 2018