BESS owner operators Gresham House and Statera Energy have indicated their support for zonal prices, a movement considered by the government as part of its Rema reforms.
Spend against TimeGresham House Energy Storage Fund Manager Ben Guest and Statera Energy CEO Tom Vernon said that Zonal prices would support the ability of energy storage sources to balance generating in the grid.
The assessment of the government of the Electricity Market Regulations (Rema) is to choose between a switch to zonal prices or a reformed national price, the last of which would be closer to the status quo.
Vernon also said that a switch to zonal prices would incur the power system more transparent and lower in the long term.
“Developing and sending batteries at the right locations is crucial for the cost -effective balancing of the
schedule. At Statera we support zonal prices because it will make the energy system more transparent and offer a clear price signal for the efficient operation and location of demand and generation, ”said Vernon.
Apart from the balancing mechanism (BM), the location of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects generally has no influence on income, with nationally priced energy and supporting service markets.
So Bess can be encouraged to discharge in addition to a wind farm in Scotland because the national price
is high even if the local wind generation is too high for the local transmission network. In that case, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) must pay the wind farms to switch off. A local prize would mean a greater chance that the Bess will be encouraged to charge the grid.
The pro-zonal point of view of Gresham House and Statera is unlike other large BESS owner operators in the UK, including Harmony Energy and Zenobe. Zenobe director James Basden and other sources in the industry shared their opinion on what has become a ‘vicious policy fight’ for a job article on the subject in Solar -Energy Portal Earlier this month.
Opponents of Zonal Prices argue for the uncertainty and complexity that would spend a reform of the Zonal Prize, as well as the time needed to fully implement it, would harm the investment material and the ability of the UK to use sufficient renewable energy sources and storage to meet net zero ambitions.
