The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) released a Policy Statement setting out the need to strengthen the current regulatory framework by introducing a legally binding target for the restoration of electricity supplies in the event of a National Electricity Transmission System failure. BEIS’ new policy is called the Electricity System Restoration Standard.
We are consulting on amendments to the ESO’s licence conditions that will facilitate the introduction of an Electricity System Restoration Standard and align the regulatory framework for procurement of restoration services with that of balancing services.
We are seeking responses to the questions posed in this consultation by 14 May 2021, and welcome responses from all industry stakeholders. Following consideration of responses, we will make our final proposals for the licence amendments in June 2021.