National Grid ESO paid more than £2.5 billion in 2025 just to keep the lights on between forecast and reality. We traced the constraint payments, the gas-plant top-ups, and the wind farms paid not to generate.
Community energyCornwall Council and Centrica have stitched 1,400 homes into a 7 MW responsive asset. The economics are starting to add up.
Policy & marketsOctopus cleared 312 MW of distributed flexibility last quarter. We dissect the auction design and the clearing price.
Storage & flexVanadium flow, compressed air, iron-air, gravity. Which 10-hour-plus chemistry is actually being financed, and at what £/kWh.
Policy & marketsThe 2026 TYNDP triples cross-border capacity by 2040 — and quietly assumes a peak-demand collapse if industrial heat electrifies fast.
Tech & AIDissolved-gas analysis is no longer a quarterly chore — DNOs are streaming it in near real time, and surprising people.
Grid & T&DA 14-year wait list, 380 GW of phantom applications, and a quiet Ofgem rule change that will shrink it.
Live grid numbers above are illustrative demo telemetry — directionally accurate, not a settled-data feed. Source links in stories point to the actual operators and regulators.
National Grid ESO paid more than £2.5 billion in 2025 to keep supply and demand in balance. We traced the constraint payments, the gas-plant top-ups, and the wind farms paid not to generate.
Cornwall Council and Centrica have stitched 1,400 homes into a 7 MW responsive asset. The economics are starting to add up — and the lessons travel.
Octopus cleared 312 MW of distributed flexibility last quarter. We dissect the auction design and the clearing price — and explain what it tells us about residential demand response.
Vanadium flow, compressed air, iron-air, gravity — which 10-hour-plus chemistry is actually being financed, and at what £/kWh.
The 2026 TYNDP triples cross-border capacity by 2040 — and quietly assumes a peak-demand collapse if industrial heat electrifies fast.