Case Study

In this study we examine the impact of integrating a fleet of Enoda PRIME® Exchangers (“Prime Exchangers”) coordinated by Enoda ENSEMBLE™ into the Texas grid through the Business As Usual (“BAU”) case.

BAU operation of around 25,000 400kVA Prime Exchangers can allow for reduction of up to 3,855.8 tonnes of CO2 in the Regulation-Up market (“RegUp”) on June 21st, 2023. This fleet of 25,000 devices would have been sufficient on this day to completely saturate the regulation up market.
Such a fleet would have reduced carbon emissions of just one of the frequency and ancillary services, RegUp, by 54%, and would also enable Texans to benefit from Enoda’s ability to provide these services at lowest marginal cost.

Combating Climate Change…

The COP28 climate summit opens in today, yet it is already clear that the world is not on track to meet the climate change targets that governments set themselves in Paris in 2015.

Alex Kotsias 10/10/2023 Alex Kotsias 10/10/2023

Review of PreCOP28

A review of the PreCOP28 panel discussion on “Energy grids and the electricity system in the face of the challenges of transformation”. What were the key takeaways? How can technology and systems thinking deliver the solution to the energy trilemma?

Paul Domjan 02/10/2023 Paul Domjan 02/10/2023

New tech sets the agenda for Europe’s energy transition

The International Energy Agency (IEA), European Central Bank (ECB) and European Investment Bank (EIB), recently laid out the intellectual justification for an EU alternative to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Two clear themes emerged, but what do they argue should be done?

Alex Kotsias 21/09/2023 Alex Kotsias 21/09/2023

Karpacz Economic Forum 2023

Enoda’s Policy & Global Affairs team were invited to join a panel at the 2023 Economic Forum, hosted by Réka Szemerkényi. Following the event, Anna Bazley sat down with Réka and Paul Domjan to delve further into the main topics from the conference.

Ryan Williams, PhD. 11/09/2023 Ryan Williams, PhD. 11/09/2023

Unravelling the UK's Failed Offshore Wind Auction

Given that wind energy is pivotal to the UK's ambitious net-zero targets, what led to no interest in the offshore wind contracts in a recent auction?

Paul Domjan 02/08/2023 Paul Domjan 02/08/2023

Unpicking the Energy Trilemma

For the energy transition to succeed, it must deliver an energy system that is clean, affordable and secure. For many years, the challenge of meeting these goals has been described as a trilemma.

Ryan Williams, PhD., Paul Domjan 26/07/2023 Ryan Williams, PhD., Paul Domjan 26/07/2023

The Hidden Costs of Delivered Renewable Energy

Renewable energy has become a crucial component of the global energy transition. LCOE has been instrumental in assessing the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies, but it fails to capture the full picture of costs associated with their integration into the grid.

Ryan Williams, PhD. 24/07/2023 Ryan Williams, PhD. 24/07/2023

Platform Series - Monolithic Market Makers to Automated Trading Platforms

The history of stock markets spans centuries, evolving from rudimentary systems to the sophisticated networks seen today.

Paul Domjan 26/06/2023 Paul Domjan 26/06/2023

McKinsey’s Green Business Building Conference

Forthcoming McKinsey research shows that while 90% of emissions reductions required for net zero are possible with existing technologies, only 20% of that abatement is from technologies that are commercially mature. The conference was filled with examples that demonstrate this innovation happening.

Anna Bazley 17/05/2023 Anna Bazley 17/05/2023

The Future of Distributed Flexibility

This year, Ofgem released a Call for Input (CfI) on the Future of Distributed Flexibility. Ofgem begins by introducing some of the issues which are resulting in a lower uptake of distributed flexibility on the electricity system than there ought to be.

Ryan Williams, PhD. 15/05/2023 Ryan Williams, PhD. 15/05/2023

Exactly What are Balancing Costs?

The electrical grid is a marvel of engineering that delivers electricity to our homes and businesses, but it requires a delicate balancing act to maintain a consistent supply of electricity to end consumers.

Ryan Williams, PhD. 26/04/2023 Ryan Williams, PhD. 26/04/2023

The Blind Gridmaker

The electrical grid is an impressive feat of human engineering that has evolved over time to become the most important infrastructure of modern society. From its humble beginnings as a simple network of wires and generators, the grid has grown and adapted to meet the ever-increasing demands of our energy-hungry civilisation.

Gurudatha Pai, PhD. 19/04/2023 Gurudatha Pai, PhD. 19/04/2023

More Please…

Increasing renewable energy generation does not mean lower prices for the end consumer, despite there being zero fuel-costs. Why is this the case and what needs to happen to change this?

Ryan Williams, PhD., Hamish Scobie 12/04/2023 Ryan Williams, PhD., Hamish Scobie 12/04/2023

Platform Series - Multi-sided markets: theoretical foundations

The description of multi-sided markets has fundamentally changed the way that economists think about the boundaries of the firm. It also has dramatic implications for how entrepreneurs approach the problem of maximising firm value, as they now have to consider other product-market participants.

Anna Bazley 29/03/2023 Anna Bazley 29/03/2023

EU Market Design: setting the direction for Europe's electricity decarbonisation

Since the energy price spikes and volatility in electricity markets last year, precipitated by rising wholesale gas prices, the EU Commission has looked to a reform of market design as a systematic answer to the impact of these prices on Europeans.

Paul Domjan 27/03/2023 Paul Domjan 27/03/2023

Shell Energy Security Scenarios show grid technology innovation is needed to meet the long-term challenges of energy security and climate change

Response to Shell Energy Security Scenarios and meeting the long-term challenge of climate change

Anna Bazley 26/10/2022 Anna Bazley 26/10/2022

How can Europe capitalise on the smart technology on the grid to guarantee decarbonisation?

Last month was European Sustainability Week, which focussed on the theme ‘Going Green and Digital for Europe’s Energy Transition’. With the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine threatening the continent’s energy supply, and a commitment to decarbonisation by 2050, Europe is devoting significant attention to ensuring energy security. Despite the immediate nature of this winter’s gas crisis, however, the theme of the week demonstrated that Europe sees an opportunity to accelerate the long-term transition to clean, reliable, affordable energy.

Anna Bazley 15/10/2022 Anna Bazley 15/10/2022

The Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) Consultation and ENODA’s Response

ENODA’s response in full to the review of Electricity Market Arrangements consultation. We have largely focussed on areas we believe need to be amended in order to take full advantage of new, effective technologies like Enoda’s Prime. For this reason, we have focussed on those sections which look at balancing and ancillary services markets and given no opinion on questions of investment in or acceleration of low-carbon generation.

Enoda 13/04/2022 Enoda 13/04/2022

How Enoda’s technology can help address Greenhouse Gas Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions

Enoda’s HERA® technology can help to drive down Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions across industries, including the difficult loads identified above; therefore, the technology is capable of truly driving Net Zero outcomes in our lifetime.

Enoda 05/04/2022 Enoda 05/04/2022

What happened to the UK’s electricity balancing markets during Covid restrictions?

A legacy grid design, to be simultaneously reliable, affordable, and sustainable, requires solutions from first principles innovation to be fit for purpose in a Net Zero future. The total value of the Balancing Markets more than doubled during the 2019-2021 period