Electricity distribution and related services

Tender description

UK Power Networks is inviting expressions of interest from providers that can offer their flexibility to support the local network. The invitation is open to resources capable of increasing exports (generate) or reducing imports (consume less) on instruction from UK Power Networks. Providers can be distributed generation, demand side response, storage, or aggregators. As the distribution company responsible for power supplies in London, the South East and East of England, we have identified a number of locations across our network area with a potential need for flexibility services. The indicative locations and service requirements are contained in the Expression of Interest (EoI) document, which can be found on our website at http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/have-your-say/listening-to-our-connections-customers/flexibility-contracts-consultation.HTML. Providers should register their interest by completing and returning the questionnaire by 8.9.2017. Flexibility is the ability to change generation and consumption to the benefit of the system. Using customer flexibility is one of our key strategic DSO priorities in 2017-2018. Our flexibility programme is looking to utilise response from generators, demand side providers and electricity storage resources connected to our networks to support efficient network planning and operations. There can be various applications of flexibility, from facilitating outages to managing demand growth uncertainty on our investment decisions, with the ultimate goal of driving lower costs in customer energy bills. Providers that are capable and interested in offering flexibility services to UK Power Networks are invited to register their interest by completing the questionnaire. We are particularly interested to hear from providers that can offer services from January 2018. Qualifying providers will be invited to participate in a tender later this year.