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Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks

Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks delivers power to over 3.9 million homes and businesses across central southern England and the north of Scotland. Discover how we work together – and the live markets available.

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SSEN's flexibility targets, by 2028

of flexibility to procure

of capacity through flexible connections

of reinforcement costs to avoid

Market activity

Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is currently running mini competitions throughout the year on ElectronConnect. Visit SSEN’s site for the latest competition rounds available.

If you’re interested in participating in the mini competitions or in long-term auctions for flexibility services, register on flexibility market platform ElectronConnect and the team will be in touch.

If you’d like to hear the latest developments for flexibility markets on ElectronConnect in SSEN’s region, sign up to the “Flexibility in Action” webinar.

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Latest news

SSEN opens its latest flexibility auction on ElectronConnect

April 2025: Eligible flexibility providers can sign the contract by 23 April 2025 to participate in all future bidding rounds on ElectronConnect. The long-term bidding round in May is expected to cover requirements in 76 of SSEN’s North and South network areas.

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ElectronConnect goes live for Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks

August 2024: SSEN Distribution launches the first of a new season of flexibility auctions on ElectronConnect.

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USE CASE

Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks

Streamlining and expanding procurement of flexibility services

SSEN plans to unleash greater volume and value from flexibility across its networks – with an ambitious target of 5GW of flexibility procurement by 2028. To facilitate this growth, SSEN turned to ElectronConnect, to streamline access for flexibility service providers (FSPs) through a user-friendly interface across diverse time-frames.

The challenge

To hit its targets, SSEN needed to increase the volume and frequency of its procurement of flexibility services to work alongside its investment in grid upgrades.

That means operating procurement at multiple timeframes to help maximise the number of FSPs that can access its markets and aims to increase market liquidity. However, its processes were manual, which was limiting its ability to do so.

The solution

The decision to partner with Electron stemmed from SSEN’s desire for a solution that aligns with their vision for a flexible and collaborative energy market.

ElectronConnect provides an end-to-end procurement and contract management process, to help SSEN hit its procurement targets. The configurable market platform offers compliance and alignment with industry standards – making it easier for FSPs to access those markets quickly.

ElectronConnect will also help coordinate more markets for SSEN across different timeframes, long and short-term, with integrated near real-time trading to bring flexibility closer to system and flexibility provider needs.

“This new platform is critical to further building our flexibility portfolio to meet the requirements identified in our Distribution Network Options Assessment. Electron is a great partner for SSEN on this digital journey, with a well-aligned product and service vision, and a commitment to collaborative development.”

Nigel Bessant
SSEN’s Head of Network Operations

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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