imbalance

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Caught in the balance: Assessing amber alerts in the SEM

    SEMO announced on 21 January that it was issuing an amber alert. This happens when the system margin is at a level where a trip of the largest in-feed would give rise to a reasonable possibility of either a failure to meet system demand, or cause a significant deviation in system...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Editor’s Pick | Belgian capacity support to take novel form

    This article was originally published in Issue 22 in Energy:2030. On 12 September, the Belgian Federal Commission for Electricity and Gas Regulation (CREG) issued a note on the implementation of a scarcity pricing mechanism in Belgium. Explaining that renewable generation may cause massive overcapacity in future with difficulties for generators relying...

  • Regulation and policy

    Can Capacity Market costs be recovered via a ‘mirroring’ process in the Balancing and Settlement Code?

    Elexon confirmed on Monday (10 December) that Issue 76 Using the BSC to support Suppliers and the Capacity Market Arrangements has been formed and the first meeting will take place next Monday (17 December). The outcomes of this process have the potential to enable suppliers to collect payments from their customers for...

  • Low carbon generation

    Take on me: PPA options to manage imbalance

    The I-SEM delay may give renewables generators some pause for thought in relation to Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) or trading contracts. Six months gives more time for any open negotiations on PPAs to continue and we believe some key risks will need to be negotiated. However, negotiations on many contracts...