The Impact of COVID-19 on System Balancing

In our latest podcast, Senior Modeller Tom Edwards and Senior Consultant Emma Burns discuss the impact that changing system conditions are driven by the COVID-19 pandemic has had on how the system is balanced.

They discuss the new tools that National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has developed, how the market might respond to these and what this might mean for the future of balancing the system.

Below is a 90-second extract from our full podcast covering COVID-19 and financing low-carbon infrastructure.

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