The Week in Flexibility: The negative price run continues amid a record low for demand
Regular readers of our week in flex blog will have noticed an emerging trend in our headlines … negative pricing.
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: COVID-19 crisis suppresses system price and UK snaps up French power
We saw supressed system prices all last week, as the COVID-19 crisis and the national lockdown combined with sunny and relatively warm weather to relax demand.
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: 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.
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.
Triad Season is Here
Alongside the colder climate, seasonal plans and parties, matching pyjamas and Christmas shopping, November to March is the only time for the UK energy industry to experience the three identified National Grid periods known as Triads. We have prepared this article as a guide for what to expect, and what Limejump has prepared in relation to these occurrences.
The last few weeks in flexibility: our top 5 highlights
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: Our weekly flexibility blog has taken a short break over the past few weeks, but we are back with a vengeance as we head into cold weather over the next few weeks. So, what did we see in the recent weeks that is noteworthy?
FFR Auction Results – National Grid Deliver Surprises as Winter Looms
High prices cleared in the Month Ahead Dynamic FFR auction this past month, for delivery in November. Limejump cleared the auction higher than the average and has done so for the last 12 months, resulting in more revenue for our customers.
The Week in Flexibility: It was a wet and windy week, but nothing like the typhoon in Japan
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: In the UK, there weren’t any football, let alone rugby matches, called off last week because of high winds but certainly, wind generation exceeded National Grid’s daily forecasts. This was the recurring theme for much of the system throughout last week.
The Week in Flexibility: Power Stations bid off in favour of wind while CCGT supports grids requirement for Inertia
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: Thursday was a popcorn worthy day last week. SSE’s Peterhead Power Station (gas-fired) was bid off in the Balancing Mechanism due to system constraint bought about by excess wind generation in Scotland (approximately 1.1GW).