Flexibility (GB)
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Our comprehensive flexibility service provides end to end insight, analysis and forecasting across all the major revenue streams for flexible assets in GB, as well as access to our exclusive forum.
End to end insight and analysis for asset owners, optimisers, investors and developers.
The Flexibility (GB) service includes bankable 25-year forecasts for 1-4hr Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS); an index of battery performance across GB; a pipeline of assets; commentary on performance across NESOs balancing services and the Balancing Mechanism; and a monthly forum to discuss policy and regulatory impacts with Cornwall Insight experts.
What's included in the Flexibility (GB) service?
Flexibility Market Commentary
- Regular coverage on all major revenue streams for flexible assets, offering clarity on where flexibility providers are accessing revenues, and how these will develop in the future
- Explanation and commentary on the latest developments and performance across the National Energy System Operator's balancing services, and the Balancing Mechanism
- Keep up to date with all pertinent market updates from NESO
- Access to interactive data to observe and analyse long-term trends or specific periods across the revenue streams
BESS Analytics
- An index of battery performance across GB, across 1hr and 2hr assets
- Observe the strategies of active battery units, with the ability to analyse long-term trends or drill down into specific settlement periods
- Spreads and wider macro analysis
- Leaderboard of revenue
- A view of the current live battery fleet, along with the pipeline view
Balancing Services Forecast
- A 25-year service price forecast for balancing services including response (DC, DM, DR) and reserve (STOR) services, modelled using Cornwall Insight’s Plexos based Benchmark Power Curve
- Accompanying analysis report outlining trends, drivers, developments within each service. Along with commentary explaining our underlying modelling drivers and assumptions
- Benchmark comparisons of how these prices sit against wholesale market trends and power prices
- Our forecasting tool allows users to modify the data based on a number of different variables, including start date, duration, price curve and degradation
- The accompanying report will provide a summary of changes to underlying fundamentals or our methodology in order to provide clarity to results
- The outputs will provide long-term forecasts of the associated revenues and costs based upon your set parameters for a battery storage project
Flexibility Forum
- Cornwall Insight’s flexibility experts share their analysis on regulatory, policy and market developments that impact on stakeholders in the flexibility market
- A compact two-hour digest each month of the key developments in the flexibility market
- Updates on policy, regulation, balancing services, NESO and DSO developments, and wider commercial activity relevant to flexibility providers
Who is this service for?
- Flexibility
- Renewable Energy Generation
- Suppliers/Retailers
- Asset owners, optimisers, investors and developers
What are the benefits of this service?
- Bankable forecasts of asset revenue to take to investment committees
- Benchmark asset performance against competitors and wider portfolio
- Speak to subject matter experts on market developments
- Understand ancillary service trends (revenue and participation)
- See the pipeline of assets due to come online in the coming years
- Keep up to date with all the relevant policy and regulatory developments impacting flexible assets and their revenue streams
End to end insight and analysis for asset owners, optimisers, investors and developers.
The Flexibility (GB) service includes bankable 25-year forecasts for 1-4hr Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS); an index of battery performance across GB; a pipeline of assets; commentary on performance across NESOs balancing services and the Balancing Mechanism; and a monthly forum to discuss policy and regulatory impacts with Cornwall Insight experts.
What's included in the Flexibility (GB) service?
Flexibility Market Commentary
- Regular coverage on all major revenue streams for flexible assets, offering clarity on where flexibility providers are accessing revenues, and how these will develop in the future
- Explanation and commentary on the latest developments and performance across the National Energy System Operator's balancing services, and the Balancing Mechanism
- Keep up to date with all pertinent market updates from NESO
- Access to interactive data to observe and analyse long-term trends or specific periods across the revenue streams
BESS Analytics
- An index of battery performance across GB, across 1hr and 2hr assets
- Observe the strategies of active battery units, with the ability to analyse long-term trends or drill down into specific settlement periods
- Spreads and wider macro analysis
- Leaderboard of revenue
- A view of the current live battery fleet, along with the pipeline view
Balancing Services Forecast
- A 25-year service price forecast for balancing services including response (DC, DM, DR) and reserve (STOR) services, modelled using Cornwall Insight’s Plexos based Benchmark Power Curve
- Accompanying analysis report outlining trends, drivers, developments within each service. Along with commentary explaining our underlying modelling drivers and assumptions
- Benchmark comparisons of how these prices sit against wholesale market trends and power prices
- Our forecasting tool allows users to modify the data based on a number of different variables, including start date, duration, price curve and degradation
- The accompanying report will provide a summary of changes to underlying fundamentals or our methodology in order to provide clarity to results
- The outputs will provide long-term forecasts of the associated revenues and costs based upon your set parameters for a battery storage project
Flexibility Forum
- Cornwall Insight’s flexibility experts share their analysis on regulatory, policy and market developments that impact on stakeholders in the flexibility market
- A compact two-hour digest each month of the key developments in the flexibility market
- Updates on policy, regulation, balancing services, NESO and DSO developments, and wider commercial activity relevant to flexibility providers
Who is this service for?
- Flexibility
- Renewable Energy Generation
- Suppliers/Retailers
- Asset owners, optimisers, investors and developers
What are the benefits of this service?
- Bankable forecasts of asset revenue to take to investment committees
- Benchmark asset performance against competitors and wider portfolio
- Speak to subject matter experts on market developments
- Understand ancillary service trends (revenue and participation)
- See the pipeline of assets due to come online in the coming years
- Keep up to date with all the relevant policy and regulatory developments impacting flexible assets and their revenue streams
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Senior Business Development Manager
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