Scale your flexibility procurement
ElectronConnect – the flexibility market platform – configures to your flexibility needs, helping you launch and coordinate multiple
markets, at scale
How it works
Watch Nick Huntbatch, Chief Product Officer, deep dive into what ElectronConnect is and how you can use it to deliver flexibility at scale.Multiple markets across multiple time frames and products, supported with a full ecosystem of extra services such as baselining and performance insights. This is how the flexibility market platform ties it all together.
Choose markets to match your needs
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End-to-end flexibility trading: everything in one place
ElectronConnect’s flexibility market software provides an end-to-end flexibility trading journey.
From resource onboarding to settlement, the flexibility market platform connects system and network operators with distributed energy resources (DERs) to help you manage the use and generation of electricity at the right time, in the right place – and for the right price.
Onboard DERs and qualify for markets
The market platform onboards DERs and qualifies them for markets based on the configurable qualification criteria defined by market operators (resource location, part of the network, technology type, response times etc).
Match and clear trades for configured markets
The flexibility market software matches and clears trades, and enables rules-based multi-market coordination. Customers can choose from pre-defined market templates or configure their own market. The technology supports a variety of trading protocols, one-to-many and many-to-many trading arrangements. It also supports different payment structures (availability and utilisation, utilisation-only) and clearing methods (pay-as-clear, pay-as-bid).
ElectronConnect can integrate with network management systems and power flow analysis tools to automate flexibility procurement, veto resources using the signals from the network management systems, analyse network impact, and more.
Dispatch ahead of time or in real-time
ElectronConnect schedules DERs to dispatch ahead of time or sends dispatch instructions in real-time.
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Frequently asked questions
ElectronConnect currently hosts live markets in the north-west and central-southern regions of England, and the Highlands of Scotland.
The markets cover 50 network zones, run between two distribution network operators: Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks and Electricity North West Limited.
ElectronConnect is used by the UK’s leading flexibility service providers, having registered over 100 MW of capacity across hundreds of assets (approximate figures correct as of 28 August 2024).
ElectronConnect allows the configuration of multiple markets and trading arrangements.
We currently run all five of the standardised flexibility products in the UK and can configure additional arrangements – as with our BiTraDER innovation project, for example.
There is no limit to how many different markets you can run at the same time on the market platform.
Yes. ElectronConnect has been built to sit alongside existing systems. The platform is therefore configurable, extensible – and easy to use. It is based on proven, scalable underlying technologies – inclusive by design – and supports market operator and provider interactions through UI, flat-file uploads or programmatically via API.
- For network utilities and system operators: We can integrate with your existing network systems, such as Active Network Management or DERMs. This allows market-based flexibility procurement to be informed by network needs directly.
- For flexibility service providers: We can integrate with aggregator and optimiser platforms, allowing those organisations to indicate flexible capacity and availability programatically.
System operators and flexibility service providers logged into ElectronConnect can see performance insights for past flexibility procurement rounds as well as information about all the opportunities available, all in one place.
