Electricity distribution

Description

Northern Powergrid aims to develop a market for local flexibility, giving its customers the opportunity to take an active part in the energy system by using their energy resources to support the network and be compensated for it. Northern Powergrid hopes to make use of DER's that can import or export energy and of its customers’ ability to reduce the amount of energy they are taking from the network. To help manage the network the company wishes to contract with customers to turn up or turn down their electricity demand, generation and storage upon instruction from the company. As part of our commitment to roll out our customer flexibility strategy, our next step is to invite you to participate in Northern Powergrid’s Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for customer flexibility services. The DPS will run to 31.3.2021 and initially cover 7 locations however we reserve the right to add more locations throughout the life of the DPS. As this is a pilot project for Northern Powergrid the total spend is unknown however, following market research and internal analysis the DPS has an estimated value of up to 5 700 000 GBP for the maximum life of the DPS.