Energy Markets
Have your say on electricity market reforms
13 Feb 2026 - 3 minute read
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has published a call for input from industry on proposed…
Ensuring secure and affordable clean power by 2030 and beyond
Energy Markets
30 Mar 2026 - 3
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In this year’s Operability Strategy Report and Electricity Markets Roadmap, you can find out about the operational changes and markets needed for us to operate a secure, affordable and clean electricity system that will deliver the UK governments clean power by 2030 and net zero by 2050 targets.
Operability Strategy Report (OSR)
The OSR identifies the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to a clean power system. In 2025, Great Britain achieved a new clean power record when renewable energy sources met 97.7% of our electricity needs. This milestone demonstrates the effectiveness of the work we’ve been doing since 2019 to enable the nation's electricity network to use more renewables while maintaining Great Britain’s world-leading energy resilience and delivering cost savings for billpayers.
The development of new services has also demonstrated the importance of exploring and delivering new solutions. A key innovation is our Dynamic Containment service, which proved its worth in 2025 by mitigating the impact of three simultaneous faults at the same power station.
Electricity Markets Roadmap
This year’s Electricity Markets Roadmap emphasises the importance of demand-side flexibility. By incentivising businesses and consumers to adjust their electricity use, NESO can manage fluctuations in renewable generation and pricing better, to the benefit of all consumers.
The roadmap also highlights how projects like our stability pathfinder, intertrip programmes, reserve product markets and changes to minimum inertia requirements will enhance the operability of the electricity system as it decarbonises.
Share your feedback
We're seeking your feedback on the OSR and Electricity Markets Roadmap 2026. This includes the aligned publications System Conditions and Introduction to Electricity System Operability. Whether you have read one or both publications, we would like to hear your opinions which you can submit via a short questionnaire.
Visibility and Access Roadmap consultation
With the rise of distributed and consumer energy resources, such as small-scale wind farms and rooftop solar panels, there is a greater need for our control room to have improved operational visibility and access to these resources.
Our new Visibility and Access Roadmap for Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Consumer Energy Resources (CERs) outlines how we can improve this, with a consultation you can respond to open until April 2026.
We are committed to collaborate with industry partners to ensure that the proposed solutions are both practical and effective, paving the way for a more resilient and sustainable energy future for Great Britain.
Rebecca Beresford, Director of Markets, NESO:
“Ensuring that our future energy system continues our world leading levels of resilience, while delivering value for consumers, is as critical to the success of the energy transition as reducing our carbon output. That’s why it's so important for our markets to facilitate this change and to encourage new and innovative solutions to play their role in supporting our future energy system.”
Julian Leslie, Director Strategic Energy Planning Director and Chief Engineer
“Delivering Clean Power by 2030 is a Herculean task for all across the industry and will change how we think and operate the GB electricity system. We are making major progress on the solutions Britain will need to operate a secure, efficient, fully decarbonised system. Today’s reports set out the immense progress we have made to date and the next steps – from new operability services to future energy markets – that will be needed for our future energy system.”
