Electricity North West is tendering flexibility services to fulfil its requirement of 4.4MW over the next three years.
The tender is the fifth in the company’s history and comes in addition to the 52MW of tenders already issued in the last year.
The new requirements in the areas of Bolton by Bowland, Coniston and Easton are all ‘restore’ responses, which seek customers to provide flexible services in the event of a network fault.
Request for Proposal (RfP) opens for submissions on Monday, 4 November and close on Friday 13 December.
Simon Brooke, head of distribution system operator transition, said: “Electricity North West recognises the importance of flexibility in helping the North West to achieve its zero carbon targets and facilitating our transition to a distribution system operator.”
The north west network operator added that some additional work is being undertaken to specify the requirements at sites currently signposted for future flexibility.
These include Sebergham, Claughton, Samlesbury, Golborne and Manchester City Centre. These sites are not guaranteed and will be subject to future capacity reviews.
These larger requirements will be issued in Spring 2020.