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tem market opportunities

Participate in tem’s new day-ahead markets – no matter where your battery energy storage assets are connected across Great Britain – and earn for MWs reserved with bonuses for MWs dispatched.

The tem market opportunity

£ 20000

per MW of flexibility reserved per year

£ 100 /MWh

when dispatched

100 reserved hours

per MW per year, subject to tem’s scheduling

How it works

1. Register your organisation and assets on the ElectronConnect platform.

2. Each day, you’ll receive a notification confirming whether your assets are reserved or released for other services.

3. When flexibility is required, you’ll receive a dispatch instruction via API specifying timing and MWs, subject to tem’s service terms.

4. Deliver your response. The platform records your performance and supports settlement with Elexon.

5. Receive payments automatically for both reservation and utilisation.

Interested in participating? Get in touch

 

Why this market exists

When renewables surge or drop unexpectedly, suppliers face costly imbalance prices.

tem’s new markets help change that volatility into value. By reserving flexible capacity on a day-ahead basis, tem ensures supply and demand stay aligned – and pays flexibility providers for being part of that insurance layer.

You earn availability revenue for being ready, and receive utilisation payments when your assets are activated. The result is a simpler, nationwide way for flexible assets to earn more, while helping renewables deliver grid reliability.

Read more about tem’s market

Provider support

Are you a DER operator or aggregator ready to provide flexibility services?

Questions about using the platform?

Latest news

tem and Electron launch UK’s first physical-hedging market to manage renewable imbalance risk

tem, the energy transactions scaleup, and Electron, the UK’s leading flexibility marketplace provider, have launched the UK’s first physical-hedging market. This market is enabling renewable suppliers to manage their imbalance risk using real-time support from flexible energy assets.

Read the full press release

Discover why this matters to tem

FAQs

Answering your questions about participation

This market is built to make participation simple and predictable. Here are some of your top questions answered.

Grid-connected battery energy storage systems (BESS) can participate. The market is designed for battery operators seeking stable, predictable income alongside other flexibility revenues.

You’ll receive a day-ahead notification to confirm if you will be retained or released.

You will need to make capacity available for up to 100 reserved hours per MW per year, subject to tem’s nominations. Actual activation is capped at 30 MWh per year.

Yes. Capacity is released on a day-ahead basis, so when you’re not reserved, you’re free to participate in other markets.

“By integrating real physical flexibility through our partnership with Electron, we’re extending that infrastructure to manage the growing imbalance between supply and demand across every half hour of the day, driven by the rapid expansion of variable renewables.”

Joe McDonald

Co-founder and CEO of tem

Read more about our partnership

Working together

For a better future

Whether you’re buying flexibility or providing grid services, use a marketplace that suits your needs.

Let’s accelerate the transition to Net Zero energy together.

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