Electricity North West has officially launched its latest flexibility requirements, its eleventh and largest tender in the business’ history.
The firm, which operates the power network for the North West, is calling for over a Gigawatt of flexibility from 2023-28 across 30 locations in its region with over £10m available for the provision of these services.
Lois Clark, DSO Commercial Manager at Electricity North West said: “Stakeholder feedback has been essential in developing the flexibility market in the North West.
“Following our consultation in September, we have published half hourly forecasts of our requirements for the next five years within our Autumn tender. This allows us to offer longer term flexibility contracts to providers and demonstrates our commitment to transparency and market engagement.
“We also responded to customer feedback calling for a more streamlined approach for submitting a tender response and we worked with PicloFlex to integrate the pre-qualification questionnaire onto the platform which will allow providers to complete all steps of the procurement in one place.”
Potential providers are encouraged to register on the PicloFlex platform using the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) and prequalify their assets by January 27th2023.
The bidding window will open from 13th – 24th February 2023 and a webinar about the latest requirements is also being held on 14th December. To register, please visit https://flexibilitywebinar.eventbrite.co.uk.
For more information about Electricity North West Flexible Services, please visit https://www.enwl.co.uk/zero-carbon/flexible-services/.
