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30 March 2021

Meet Outage Planning Manager in our latest zero-carbon engineer blog

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Why the power of digital is key to energy innovation

29 March 2021

We've published our innovation strategy for 2021/22 - find out how it'll help us achieve our zero carbon ambition.

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How do we forecast energy usage when the clocks change? 

26 March 2021

Energy forecasting is at the heart of the ESO’s role, helping us to balance supply and demand for electricity second by second. But what happens when the clocks change and we lose an hour of our day? 

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Increasing the transparency of our operational decision making

25 March 2021

The launch of our Dispatch Transparency dataset will give the industry more clarity on how we make decisions about which options we take to balance the grid

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