DNO

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Record renewables pipeline: will investors reconsider after UK proposes green revenue cap?

    News this week that the UK government is mulling over a cap on green generation revenues comes at a time when our research finds that the investment pipeline for electricity renewables generation is the highest it has ever been. In our Renewables Pipeline Tracker (RPT) service we analyse the growing...

  • Home supply and services

    Last Resort Supplier Payments: the impact on domestic electricity bills

    The presence of a significant increase in commodity costs in 2021, combined with the Default Tariff Cap limiting the revenues that suppliers can recover in the domestic market, has contributed to a number of suppliers falling into insolvency in the last 9 months. The Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) process...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Pixie Chart of the week | WPD flexibility results show increased engagement

    Western Power Distribution (WPD) published detailed results of its latest flexibility tender on 20 April. The distribution network owner procured 94.8MW of flexible capacity in its 2020 Cycle 1 procurement exercise. Consequently, this brought its total volume of contracted flexibility to 217MW. The exercise, the fifth since the launch of...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Pixie Chart of the week | Piclo publishes DNO flexibility findings

    Software company Piclo released two white papers in September sharing findings from the pilot phase of its Piclo Flex Marketplace trial. The papers, supported by BEIS, explore the future of distributed flexibility procurement as researched through Piclo’s trials with all six of GB’s Distribution Network Operators (DNOs). This week’s Chart of...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Pixie Chart of the week | DNOs realise mixed flexibility procurement results

    The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has compiled the flexibility procurement timetables for all distribution network operators (DNOs) in Great Britain. The schedule highlights DNO flexibility procurement between 2018 and 2020. This week’s chart summarises the buying timeline and the subsequent phases of progression, split between communication of the procurement requirement,...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Pixie Chart of the week | Identifying the optimum subsidy for microgrids

    In this week's Pixie Chart of the week, we explore a recent study by researchers from the School of Economics and Business Administration at Chongqing University, China. They have identified the optimum coefficient for a government subsidy to rationalise the investment in microgrids, and an increase in the subsidy coefficient leads to greater profits for both...