Client Challenge

BEIS, Ofgem & National Grid agreed to separate the ESO to adapt to changing customer and industry expectations, remove conflicts of interest and provide greater ESO independence and market transparency

Solution-at-a-glance

Following an innovative separation programme, the ESO became an independent organisation, overcoming political uncertainty, managing regulatory changes, and adapting to changing market needs

Results

  • Delivery of a legally separate ESO within the National Grid Group
  • Greater independence and transparency within the electricity market
  • Quicker adaption to changing market needs and new technologies
  • Facilitation of new a strategy, direction, and role for the newly separated ESO

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The legal separation of national grid ETO and ESO; opportunity for the transmission customers