In 2023/24, we contracted 706 MW of Flexibility Services: dispatched 554 MWh and spent £275k.
If you own, operate, manage or supply generation, storage or demand assets over 10kW in any of the advertised zones you may be able to provide flexibility services.
How to Take Part in Flexibility
The first time you participate there are several steps that you need to take.
Register: Completed once
Pre-Qualification: Completed once per region and each time a new service becomes available
Mini-competition: Completed for each Overarching Agreement Awarded
Asset Registration: Complete once, can be updated at any time if new assets are available
Bidding: Expect a minimum of two long-term bidding windows a year. Multiple bidding rounds can occur under each Overarching Agreement
Onboarding: Completed once
Procurement Information
Stay updated on our latest bidding rounds. Providers with signed agreements by specific dates receive additional bidding opportunities.
Procurement Deadlines
The first time you participate in a tender, there are several steps that you need to take before onboarding:
Participating in Flexibility with SSEN
SSEN has long served diverse geographic areas, and this experience means we’ve always innovated when it comes to managing the supply and demand of electricity.
Our target is to have 5GW of Flexibility Services contracted by 2028 across our licence areas. In 24/25 we have identified a minimum of 256 MW we intend to procure in our May and August bidding rounds alone.
To maximise market participation, we have done the following over the past year:
- Reduced minimum DER (Distributed Energy Resources) size to 10 kW
- Trialed Guaranteed revenue for some Variable Availability services
- Improved Bid Pricing Form
- Implemented Overarching Agreements
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