List of BSC Insights
BSC Insights: Imbalance Charging, where does the money go?
In this Elexon Insight one of our Business Intelligence Analysts, Emma Tribe, explains energy imbalance cash flow and how leftover amounts are redistributed among BSC Parties. This article highlights how we calculate payments that come into Elexon and how, as a not-for-profit organisation the way they are calculated means we receive no financial gain.
Published: June 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 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: Imbalance Prices go negative on 24 March 2019
The 24 March 2019 saw the longest continuous period of negative Imbalance Prices since a single Imbalance Price was introduced in November 2015. In this article Emma Tribe explains what negative Imbalance Prices are, when they have been occurring, and what Elexon’s data shows about the trends.
BSC Insights: Keeping costs down when Suppliers fail
Roger Harris, Market Operations Manager at Elexon, looks at the number of recent Supplier failures and the issue of Supplier of Last Resort processes and costs. Earlier in March another […]
BSC Insights: Imbalance Prices with new CADL and DMAT
Emma Tribe’s insight article highlights the potential impact of changes to the De Minimis Acceptance Threshold and the Continuous Acceptance Duration Limit which take effect on 1 April 2019. The […]
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: System Prices in 2018
In this Elexon Insight, Nick Baker, one of our Market Analysts, takes a detailed look at System Prices across 2018. What does the data tell us and were there circumstances […]
BSC Insights: Defaults and SoLRs increased in 2018
In this Elexon Insight, Emma Tribe, Business Intelligence Analyst, looks at the data behind these defaults and the 1.85% of electricity meters that have been transferred to a Supplier of […]
BSC Insights: What’s the impact of changing DMAT and CADL?
Elexon are currently consulting on two Imbalance Price Calculation parameters. Emma Tribe’s insight article highlights the potential impact on prices of changing the De Minimis Acceptance Threshold (DMAT) and the […]