National Grid ESO’s Post

Ever wondered what it’s like to be responsible for keeping Great Britain’s lights on? 💡⚡ Find out now by playing our Balancing the Grid game. Try your hand at keeping system frequency within safe operational limits of 50Hz as electricity demand peaks and falls through the day. 📈📉 You’ll be scored for keeping balancing costs as low as possible and favouring renewable sources of generation, but it’s not as simple as that. Watch out for assets coming offline for maintenance, storage reaching its limit and export prices fluctuating. 🕹 Play now to experience a taste of the challenges our experts face running a safe, secure, and economic electricity system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Balancing the Grid game: https://bit.ly/3ML9HAt