The Week in Flexibility: Another week, another round of negative prices
We are seeing a huge shift in the makeup of the energy mix both at home and overseas. With demand levels low, fossil fuel use increasingly is being priced out of the stack by zero marginal cost renewables. This is having an interesting impact on prices at the Day Ahead and Within Day stages.
The Week in Flexibility: Solar and wind output dominates the weekend leading to negative day ahead prices
Although days may be blurring as the UK lockdown continues, the past weekend was markedly different than the days preceding as far as power consumption goes.
The Week in Flexibility: Wednesday swings and wind outperforms (again)
The week before last, wind dominated the flexibility highlights, and last week saw similar outperformance and curtailment, with storm Jorge adding to the record wind delivery in February.
The Week in Flexibility: Wind dominates the week’s interest
Anyone making observations into last week’s market would likely have found themselves stuck on repeat talking about the impact of wind.
The Limejump Quarterly Report Q4 2019 – Significant Code Review, changing fundamentals and the General Election
Welcome to our latest quarterly market report. Within this report, we focus on several key market developments and influences: we look at some of the key events at the end of 2019, as well as ancillary markets, fundamentals and we take a peek at what we have seen so far this year.
The Week in Flexibility: The week comes up short and Storm Dennis brings system negativity
After a turbulent weekend with Storm Ciara (8/9 February), last week kicked off with short power system for most of the day, with exceptionally high demand prompting National Grid to update its forecasts by around 1GW within day.
The Week in Flexibility: Storm Ciara brings asset trips, turbine halts and a close call with a frequency drop
As the clean-up operation for Storm Ciara gets underway, there were a number of notable grid operation and flexibility points over the course of the storm.
The Week in Flexibility: Strong demand and nuclear outage pressure the system – and conditions create a bumper week for Limejump customers
Last week kicked off with a Monday dominated by strong demand. The system was already strained with a short in-day outage on the Heysham 27 nuclear power plant and some struggling CCGTs.
The Fortnight in Flexibility: Disruptive CCGT and extreme imbalances paint the picture of the past two weeks
Welcome to a bumper two-week issue of our Week in Flexibility blog. 55 was the number of the day on Tuesday 14th January, with the day’s prices hovering at £55/MWh for pretty much the whole day.
The week in flexibility: An intraday rollercoaster before an oversold end of the week and an unexpected nuclear shortage
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: As the UK settled back in for the first ‘full week’ after the festive period, we saw several interesting dispatch incidents.
The week in flexibility: Festive flexibility drives markets with a blustery start to the new decade
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: We’ve taken a festive break from the Weekly flex reports over the past few weeks, but we are back into the swing of things in this new decade and share our top three flex moments from across the Christmas and New Year hiatus.
The week in flexibility: Cashout spreads and high winds Provide the theme of the week leading us into the Christmas Rush
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: We witnessed significant spreads and margins across the last week, especially when looking at cashout prices.
Limejump Wins Commercial Technology Award at 2019 S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards
The prestigious S&P Platts Global Energy Awards #PlattsGEA were presented last night at a glittering ceremony at the Cipriani Hotel in New York, and Limejump continued to enjoy success at this yearly energy night of nights.
The week in flexibility: Persistent cold, and a gas glut paints a contrasting picture delivers a rare negative price run
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: The week's persistent chilly temperatures created unusual trading conditions mid-week.
The week in flexibility: Ratcliffe steps into the breach across the evening peak while balancing instruction hit a £250/MWh peak
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: Last week, we saw a particularly exciting day on the flexibility markets on Tuesday.
The week in flexibility: Drax and Coryton put in a struggling performance but wind clocks up the GWs
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: Dynamic market trading, coupled with cooler weather patterns in the middle of the week delivered unique pricing conditions.
The week in flexibility: Unusual French Earthquakes and Ofgem’s Suspension of Market Making Obligations Shake UK Markets
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit the south-eastern region of France last Monday affecting the area between Lyon and Montelimar.
The Limejump Quarterly Report Q3 2019 – Post Blackout ruminations, combined with continued political uncertainty, delivers further market volatility and business opportunity
Welcome to our latest quarterly market report. In this report, we focus on several key market developments and influences, exploring key events, ancillary markets, fundamentals and a forward look at what we see coming up in the final quarter of this year.
The week in flexibility: A week of price variation delivers revenue opportunities to those who can manage risk
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and a look at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: The week started off jumpy, on Monday with several market parameters in favour of a bullish market and system price.
Scaling Limejump’s Hydro Portfolio provides asset optimisation for all, and offers another push towards 100% carbon net-zero energy
Why community energy groups, as well as commercial players need to squeeze every last drop of value from their distributed generation assets.