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.

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Through Centrica’s flexible trading platform WPD and National Grid ESO will place the bids for flexibility services. They can both indicate when they will need and increase or decrease in generation or consumption to balance the grid or manage a local network constraint.

These bids are then matched with different offers from the sellers through auctions that can run from months in advance to intraday. Sellers receive a financial reward for their services.



The transmission and distribution networks are able to co-ordinate their procurement to avoid conflicting signals, making it the first time ever both have traded for flexibility on the same third platform, Centrica said.

Belgian advanced analytics company N-SIDE has made the engine for this platform, which takes the bids and offers and finds the optimal clearing solution, taking into account grid and asset constraints.

Colm Murphy, an electricity market change development manager at National Grid ESo, said “The potential is really exciting as the system operator looks to unlock more flexibility and greater cost benefits for consumers. Exploring the provision of flexibility through a local energy market is a first for us and even though we’re in the early stages of the trail, we’re looking forward to evaluating the results. In particular, we’re keen to understand how flexibility can be procured efficiently and cost-effectively between different markets.”

 Flexibility trading plays a huge role in the local market trial (LEM). The LEM is being part-funded by European Regional Development Fund and the trails are expected to be completed in spring 2020.

The platform manages the process for both sides, including contract creation baselining and settlement.

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