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How Piclo Can Help Utilities and Distribution System Operators harness grid flexibility

The Local Constraint Market (LCM) aims to reduce overall costs of the transmission constraint across the B6 boundary, as an alternative to doing so through the national Balancing Mechanism.

The Capacity Market is a critical revenue stream for energy asset owners. However, secondary trading is a lesser known area, and participants have a lot of questions about how it all works.

Federal funding has accelerated the pace of the US energy transition in recent years via the IRA, IIJA, and the CHIPS and Science Act. A lot of the conversation has been focused on how we generate energy—will it be a future powered by offshore wind, hydrogen energy, or will distributed solar be the key to unlocking a carbon free future?

Flexibility and energy markets must become accessible and stackable - but what is the best approach to achieve this? In this blog, we explore the concept of a “Markets Governance Framework” and how its application to energy and flexibility markets could shift the dial toward making it easier for assets to participate across multiple markets.

In this blog, Piclo’s US Policy and Regulatory Affairs Manager John Greene, discusses his key takeaways from the 2023 National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Summer Policy Summit, and what needs to be done to transform the US’s energy system to enable greater renewables integration.

This blog takes a look at how the new RIIO ED2 price control period (2023-2028) starting this week will change flexibility markets in the UK moving forward.

Dimitri Vassilas, Integrations Software Engineer, outlines Piclo's approach to API internationalisation using our externally-facing APIs and how we manage regional variations across documentation.

If 2022 was the year of major climate policy via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), then 2023 must pivot toward implementation.

2022 was a year of expansion for Piclo as we saw the growth of our Piclo Flex marketplace to new international markets. We have also announced some exciting collaborations, developed milestone APIs and worked with new ways to highlight flexibility as an essential solution for all energy networks. Here is our 2022 in summary…

In the wake of the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), every part of the United States energy system must prepare itself for what is going to be a radical shake-up. We take a look at what the IRA is and why a flexible energy system, with non-wire alternatives (also known as flexibility services) at its heart, will be critical to its success.

Piclo sat down with Alex Howard, Product Manager for UKPN, to discuss their upcoming competitions and how you can get started.