Very Fast FCAS

Very fast FCAS, 2024 in review

Tue 17^th December 2024   9:18 AM   |   Linton Corbet

A 2024 review of the trend in the very fast FCAS services captures enablements, availabilities and costs.

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GSD 2023 Uncovers Features in FCAS Enablement and Bidding

Mon 12^th February 2024   3:30 PM   |   Linton Corbet

The release of GSD2023 supports a deep dive into its 10-year FCAS history section. We inspect three units of differing technology and make use of the data extract to uncover trends in participation.

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Very fast FCAS markets continue to grow

Fri 22^th December 2023   1:53 PM   |   Linton Corbet

Six observations from a chart summarising how capacity, availability and volumes enabled have changed over the early phase of the very fast FCAs markets, since commencement on October 9, 2023.

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Challenges with a global-only FCAS requirement

Wed 1^th November 2023   9:08 AM   |   Linton Corbet

The very fast FCAS markets started on 9 October 2023 and now a Basslink outage presents a confusing situation for required and enabled levels.

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Very fast raise service to be expanded

Tue 31^th October 2023   4:03 PM   |   Linton Corbet

The requirement for the very fast raise contingency service is set to increase to 100 MW. We review availability and bids to consider the impact.

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