Local Energy Row Acquire ‘breakthrough’ as Flexibility Trading Platform Goes Live
Centrica, one of the UK’s largest energy companies is celebrating a “major breakthrough” as its flexibility trading platform goes live. Through this platform the UK’s transmission system operator, National Grid SEO and one of its distribution operators (DNOs), Western Power Distribution (WPD) will obtain flexibility concomitantly. The company said that Centrica is the first platform to allow two operators to do this in the world. Over 125 businesses are associated with a variety of flexible low carbon energy technologies and also solar energy and storage. Ithas also combined heat and power units among other technologies. A 1MWh redT vanadium redox flow battery system was already installed in 2017. RedT is now in the middle of a merger with US vanadium redT flow battery maker Avalon Battery, a move which now has the backing of vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals. Through Centrica’s flexible trading platform WPD and National Grid ESO will place the bids for flexibility s...