NIA SSEN 0047 TraDER

Key Activities

TraDER created a platform and a single access point, to make it easier for distributed energy resources to provide services such as balancing, stability, and network capacity. In this way, “whole system value” is maximised by enabling price-driven coordination between NGESO, DSO and other market participants. Project TraDER developed and traded flexibility in as near real-time as possible. The solution sought to integrate the flexibility market both horizontally (i.e. with other, longer term Distribution System Operator (DSO) products) and vertically (i.e. other trades within the same time period, such as the Balancing Mechanism).

Expected Outcomes

There are significant learning benefits associated with the project as SSEN acted as a facilitator to TraDER by delivering data from the Active Network Management (ANM) system currently operating in Orkney and then facilitated changes to the ANM system in order to execute flexibility trades created by the TraDER platform. In return, TraDER delivered outputs which will allow SSEN to assess the impact of how trades can be implemented on the ANM scheme, e.g., changes to Last In First Off (LIFO) connection order, and associated costs to SSEN.

Progress

The project is now closed and achieved the following key outcomes, as reported during the BEIS TraDER project closedown:

TraDER is a first working example of a DNO/DSO-enabled market that was operated by a neutral market facilitator and not a DNO/DSO.

The project provided a first example of a DNO operating an ANM system enabling a market by providing network security against flexibility non-delivery (as an alternative to prevention of market participation due to exclusion of ANM-located DER for some ESO products/markets).

This learning will be further developed via the Bi-TraDER NIC project.