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Fix the energy market
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Great Britain — Reformed National Market

A national wholesale market supported by balancing, constraint management, capacity procurement, Contracts for Difference, ancillary services, network charging and local flexibility mechanisms.

Solution section

Capacity & Adequacy

How resource adequacy and investment sufficiency are addressed.

Capacity & Adequacy

Great Britain operates an explicit Capacity Market.

The capacity layer exists because adequacy is treated as a separate requirement from short-run energy trading.

Contracts for Difference additionally support selected investment in low-carbon generation, meaning long-term investment support is spread across more than one policy mechanism.