30 July 2021

Dynamic Containment deep dive - June 2021

Written by:
Modo Energy

Dynamic Containment deep dive - June 2021

At a glance

Monthly average DC prices and volumes since service inception. Forward-looking procurement targets. Source: NG ESO data portal.

Contracted volume has continued to increase for the eighth consecutive month, with average accepted volume growing 91 MW (+15%).

Prices have held steady at £17/MW/h driven by demand continuing to outstrip supply. Currently, there is space for a further ~700MW in DC.

Service cost continues to rise with increasing market participants, with average daily costs of £300k.

Key DC metrics for June 2021.

Daily price and volumes

Intra-month procurement, requirements and prices.

Accepted volume surpassed 800 MW for the first time in June, with the entrance of the Oxford Energy Superhub and Minety sites.

Market share

DC market share by partipant.

Total monthly service costs were up +11% on May, driven by new market entrants.

Habitat continued to take home the highest proportion of revenues, with a DC portfolio of 140MW - the largest of all DC providers.

New entrants

June saw the entrance of 3 new sites into the Dynamic Containment market, most notably:

Minety, 100MW /136MWh- The largest battery energy storage site in Europe.

Oxford Energy Superhub 52MW/55 MWh - A partially state-funded, hybrid chemistry site consisting of 50MW/50MWh lithium-ion and 2MW/5MWh vanadium flow.

June 2021 DC market entrants.

Leaderboard

With consistent pricing of £17/MW/h across all participants in DC, leaderboard position is driven largely by availability and uptime. The highest performing sites all held 24/7 contracts at 100% capacity.

Dynamic containment leaderboard. Eligible DC capacity is calculated as the maximum bid capacity observed in DC auctions.