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.
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.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund Signs Power Purchase Agreement with Entech Leader Limejump
Limejump continues to grow its renewable energy portfolio with the addition of one of the UK's most innovative investment funds.
Limejump’s Kristina Rabecaite wins “Woman of the Year” Award at Solar & Storage Live Event
Kristina, a Business Development Manager at Limejump, won the prestigious award at last night’s event held at the NEC in Birmingham.
The Week in Flexibility: A super Sunday and pipeline attacks put volatile markets on edge
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. Delivering 26 degrees, the sunny Sunday led to BBQs erupting across the nation. However, the system operator was busy turning down Scottish wind to manage system constrains.
The Week in flexibility: Shifting winds and forecasting misalignments lead to system price volatility.
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. Over the early part of last week, we saw wind cause a lot of shakeup in the system.
The Week in Flexibility: Negative Prices Lead to a Charging Payday and a Significantly ‘Low’ Thursday
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. After the excitement of the previous week, it’s unsurprising that the last week seemed a little sedate in the world of flexibility.
The week in flexibility: French traders cover nuclear outages with UK sourced power
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 last ten days combined to produce a bumper issue!
The Limejump Quarterly Report Q2 2019 – Powering the National Grid without Coal, Carbon Price Records and Volatile Revenue Opportunities
Welcome to our latest quarterly market report. Within this report, we focus on a number of key market developments and influences: we explore commodity pricing fluctuations, market dynamics, what we see coming up in Q3 of 2019 and of course a number of new developments from the world of Limejump as we continue to develop the Future of Energy.
Blackout Disruption and Concerns Over Interconnector Trading Further Underpin the Need for a New Market for Inertia in the UK
by Erik Nygard, CEO Limejump Like much of the industry, we are eagerly assessing the fallout from the blackouts earlier this month to consider how we – as a collective energy sector – can learn from what happened and prevent any future disruptive reoccurrence.
The Week in Flexibility: A Dynamic end to the week caps prices while Aberthaw burns through reserves
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 could be forgiven for forgetting all about flexible trading last week as cycles of speculations and corrections regarding the previous week's blackout #powercut was still the hot topic for everyone in the industry.
Friday’s blackouts: A Domino energy effect in action, and how the energy sector can prevent this happening again
by Erik Nygard, CEO Limejump On Friday 9 August, just before 1700, National Grid oversaw a sharp system frequency drop following the trip of Little Barford gas-fired power station which was generating roughly 700MW at the time. This has been referred to on social media as the #powercut.
The Week in Flexibility: National Grid is Buffeted by an Imperfect Storm of Factors
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: That was a Friday we won’t forget in a hurry.
The week in flexibility: a subdued start springs surprises and a record-breaking end
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 in flexibility kicked off fairly subdued, delivering subdued pricing on Monday, failing to reach higher than £52.90/MWh in the morning. But by the end of the week, the market could be described as anything but quiet.
The week in flexibility: Madness Visits After Midnight – Market Decoupling Provides Peak Price Opportunities
Each week, we take a look at the week in flexibility trading that has just been, and at what's next. Enjoy our latest instalment: Let’s address this right away, last Friday provided the world of flexible energy trading with a jolt of excitement.
This Week in Flexibility: Unexpected events trip the system
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 steady but unseasonably warm weather made for a stable start to last week as we started refrigerating our chocolate eggs, eagerly beginning the countdown to Easter.
On the Verge of a Tipping Point for the UK Energy Transition – Balancing Mechanism Report – Q1 2019
In Part 2 of this Limejump report, our trading team takes a look at the various markets we participate in and the combined influences that shape these. Our Traders have identified a number of trends throughout the quarter to develop our market view. In this instalment, we focus on the Balancing Mechanism and ancillary markets.
Power Purchase Agreements – Turn Market Volatility to your Advantage
With energy markets requiring ever more complex strategies to derive revenue, Power Purchase Agreements still provide the clearest methodology for trading energy to create a return from renewable resources. However, trading intelligently means taking advantage of inherent market volatility.
The Week in Flexibility: A beige week closes with the glare of solar oversupply
After the unprecedented imbalance events of last weekend, we settled into a fairly calm week.
Super-charged for the future
Limejump welcomes its acquisition by Shell London, February 27, 2019 Shell* has agreed to acquire Limejump Ltd, a UK based energy technology company. With this deal Limejump’s technology and management team will enable both companies to continue to take steps to support the UK energy system’s transition to a lower carbon future.