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Restore Flexibility Scheme | Northern Powergrid

29 November 2019

In UK-first move for a DNO, Northern Powergrid announces intent to procure local flexibility via e-auction

Northern Powergrid is looking to procure flexibility for network resilience via a Dynamic Purchasing System and e-auction, the electricity distribution business for North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire revealed today. The scheme,  will help the operator manage the network on the rare occasions when it experiences network faults.

This process will see firms across seven key locations in the region bid to be in a position to provide flexibility, with the aim of procuring up to 100MW of capacity across these locations. The locations are: St Andrews Road (Huddersfield), Staygate (West Yorkshire), Wold Newton (East Yorkshire), Featherstone (West Yorkshire), Greatham (County Durham), Denwick (Northumberland) and Guisborough (North Yorkshire).

Northern Powergrid is especially interested to hear from:

•    major energy users (such as factories or supermarkets that can engage in demand side response),
•    power generators (minimum 100kW),
•    aggregators of smaller assets, and 
•    storage operators 

Further information about the scheme and how your organisation can get involved here.

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