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UK’s new Dynamic Containment grid service market exceeds 400MW but remains halfway undersubscribed

March 2, 2021
Participation in the UK’s recently-launched Dynamic Containment (DC) frequency response service has exceeded 400MW of assets with the enrolment of investment fund Gore Street Capital’s 9MW Port of Tilbury battery storage project by optimiser Origami Energy.
Inside the Bloxwich battery storage plant in the UK. Image: Arenko.

UK’s new Dynamic Containment auctions are ‘twice as lucrative as other frequency response services’

November 30, 2020
A new market for providing ancillary services to the UK’s grid has been highlighted as more valuable in its first seven weeks of operation than any other frequency response service run by the network operator, National Grid ESO.
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National Grid: ‘Unlocking battery storage’ in the UK with its Distributed Resource Desk

February 27, 2019
UK editor Liam Stoker writes in a blog for the energy transition and smart power site this week that National Grid’s Distributed Resource Desk – a new platform for managing distributed resources on its network – is starting to enable wider participation in the BM.

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