Voltage System Costs

To give greater insight on balancing decisions, this post monthly report provides outturn system costs for maintaining voltage levels on the network. Maintaining the electricity system at the correct voltages enables safe and efficient power transfer across the network. This requires the right balance of reactive power injection and absorption to be maintained in real time.


Note: Please note the utilisation costs presented here are only the ORPS payments, allocated per voltage constraint group. The historical years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 have recently been revised, as has the current year file.

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Outturn Voltage Costs 2024-2025 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2018-2019 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2017-2018 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2016-2017 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2015-2016 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2014-2015 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2019-2020 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2020-2021 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2021-2022 CSV Download (CSV) view
Historical Outturn Voltage Costs 2022-2023 CSV Download (CSV) view

Additional Information

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Creator National Grid Electricity System Operator
Date Created December 23, 2019 at 10:00 AM (UTC+00:00)
Source National Grid Electricity System Operator
Rights NESO Open Data Licence
Update Frequency Monthly

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