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Data, Flexibility and the Future of Britain’s Electricity Market
Published 9 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, sure. Our core role really is that we're the balancing and settlement code company so that we're there to balance and settle wholesale energy trading. We consume a lot of data, we balance the books between suppliers and generators by comparing what they say they're going to put onto the grid and take off, then we go through a kind of chewing up process which takes 14 months and we shift money around if we need to so that at the end of the day there's a kind of zero sound gain, everybody's paid for any imbalances that they need to pay for increasingly over time our role has evolved but I think that we've stayed very true to our core skills of balancing settlement using data and settling big amounts of money. […]
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