Piclo says information from all flexibility markets in the UK will be visible on its new Piclo Max platform for flexibility service providers after a trial allowed Piclo to display information from SSEN’s January bidding round. Piclo announced the new platform in November 2023. It said Phase 1 looked at enabling access to all UK local flex markets by early 2024 and working with SSEN is the final piece of the jigsaw. Piclo said it would “offer UK flex sellers access to all the UK local flexibility markets, with further UK electricity markets being onboarded throughout 2024, followed by markets in Europe and North America”.
Piclo said it will develop interfaces with either SSEN’s current service, or its forthcoming new procurement platform. This development will enable hundreds of active service providers with over 60,000 assets and 19GW of registered capacity on the Piclo platform, to participate in SSEN’s tenders.
Catherine Winning, Flexibility Markets Manager at Scottish and Southern Electricity Distribution Networks, said, : “We are constantly looking for ways to make accessing flexibility markets as easy as possible. Our open-source data will allow a range of platforms to take this step of integrating flexibility services. We look forward to working with Piclo and other providers as they develop these further.”
James Johnston, Piclo CEO and Co-founder, said, “Working with SSEN takes us one step closer to delivering true market interoperability and revenue stacking.”