capacity market auction

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    T-4 Capacity Market Results: New build battery storage leads the way

    On 22 February 2022, the T-4 Capacity Market (CM) auction for Delivery Year 2025-26 cleared at £30.59/kW/year. This was the highest ever clearing price in a T-4 GB CM auction and followed the T-1 auction for 2022-23, which cleared at the highest ever GB CM price of £75/kW on 15...

  • Low carbon generation

    Capacity Market prequalification: Lack of nuclear capacity opens opportunity for new build capacity

    In its role as the EMR Delivery Body, National Grid ESO published the prequalification registers for the upcoming Capacity Market auctions, on 23 November. The registers detail the assets that have either prequalified, conditionally prequalified or been rejected ahead of the T-1 and T-4 auctions for delivery in 2022-23 and...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | We’ve got the power: T-4 Capacity Market results

    On 6 March, the EMR Delivery Body (National Grid ESO) published the provisional result of the T-4 Capacity Market (CM) auction for Delivery Year 2023-24. The clearing price for the auction was the highest value since 2016. In this week's Chart of the week, our expert, Lee Drummee explores some of...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | Swing low: T-3 Capacity Market auction

    In this week's Chart of the week, we discuss the provisional results of the T-3 Capacity Market (CM) auction for Delivery Year 2022-23, published on Friday 31 January by the EMR Delivery Body (National Grid ESO). The clearing price was £6.44/kW/year, the lowest ever in a multi-year (T-4 or T-3) Capacity Market auction....

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | In with the old, out with the new: T-4 Capacity Auction

    The latest Capacity Market register for the T-4 auction was released on 22 December 2017, with an update expected today (12 January 2018). The December register includes a 2.9GW (4%) reduction in prequalified capacity, compared to the initial register. In this week's Chart of the week, we look at the...