Talk:National Grid Reserve Service

Actually the correct name is Frequency Response and Standing Reserve.

I think the two articles should be kept together as they are intimatly related...

Info from UK National Grid:

David,

The latest STOR market report has data on how much reserve we procured in the first tender round can be found via the link below. For the first two seasons of this year there was just over 2 GW of accepted tenders with roughly two thirds from large generators (BM units) and a third from the demand side (non BM (NBM)) providers. The non-BM consisting of both back up generation and sites which can reduce their electricity demand (e.g. water pumping)

http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/883E5532-EE34-4C26-AA01-F679ADE3092F/16453/STORMIR0701.pdf

On frequency response the total demand side load is of the order 500-550MW. The link below is to the frequency tender report for June. Figure 9 shows the level of contracted secondary response, with base level around the 550 mark, being the contracted demand side sites

http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/8EAB041D-C38E-4C50-951B-02F345FF6EF4/16803/FFR_Market_Info_Jun_2007_v1.pdf

Regards

Fred

Senior Contract Developer

Contracts and Settlement National Grid

fred.xxxxxxx@uk.ngrid.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Engineman (talk • contribs) 17:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

notability?
Excuse me, but this is obviously highly notable. The UK national grid could not function without it, and a similar arrangement operates for all other grids. This article merely gives an example of how it works in the UK. All the facts are cited on the UK National Grid web site.

Ngrid has recently announced it needs to increase its Reserve to 8 GW specifically to deal with renewables so this cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered un notable.

reference added
credible reference now added - clearly without understanding how the grid works, and how it can cope with flucutations, one cannot consider how renewables can be incorported - this is clearly highly notable.Engineman (talk) 11:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)