The internationally peer-reviewed Energy System Modelling Environment (ESME) is the UK’s leading techno-economic whole system model – providing in-depth evidence for industry, academia, the Climate Change Committee and the UK Government.

The ESME Flex model allows you to assess the value of storage technologies and identifies system service requirements of future energy systems for long term strategic and short term operational uncertainties.

In response to the increasingly complex challenge of balancing supply and demand in the energy system, storage technologies such as  batteries and even hot water tanks, are predicted to become a more integral part of the future energy system. As demand for electricity rises, these technologies will help ensure networks can cope, and allow homes and businesses to avoid peak times when energy is more expensive.

Without a deeper understanding of how storage and flexibility technologies could help in balancing energy networks, we will at best end up with a system that costs more than it needs to and at worst one that fails to manage supply and demand.

To tackle this challenge and address a collective lack of knowledge about the extent of the role storage and flexibility could play in the future, ESME Flex was designed to provide the clearest ever picture of how these technologies can accelerate the UK towards a Net Zero.