Decision: Market facilitator delivery body
Summary
Ofgem decides to confirm Elexon as the Market Facilitator delivery body. Part of the wider review into the future of local energy institutions and governance.
Why it matters
Foundational decision on who runs the Market Facilitator regime. Picking Elexon, the existing BSC administrator, signals continuity over fresh competition for the role. Sister decision to the December 2024 policy framework consultation; together they shaped the September 2025 blueprint decision and the December 2025 go-live.
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Decision: Market facilitator delivery body | Ofgem Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience. BETA This site is currently in BETA. Help us improve by giving us your feedback . Close alert: Decision: Market facilitator delivery body Publication type: Decision Publication date: 29 July 2024 Topic: Electricity transmission Decision for: Consultation: Market facilitator delivery body Print this page Related links Decision on future of local energy institutions and governance Consultation: Future of local energy institutions and governance Call for Input: Future of local energy institutions and governance Call for Input: The Future of Distributed Flexibility Share the page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Achieving the UK's net zero target by 2050 will require radical changes across the energy system. This transformation is already underway, including in how we heat our homes, power our vehicles, and generate electricity. This will require changes across the energy system, which must be smart, flexible, and operate through well-facilitated, accessible, transparent, and coordinated flexibility markets. Our review into local governance and institutional arrangements started with a call for input in April 2022 , followed by a consultation published in March 2023 where we proposed a new role for the market facilitation of flexible resources, to be assigned to a single expert entity capable of delivering more accessible, transparent and coordinated flexibility markets. We confirmed our decision to create a market facilitator in November 2023 . We published a consultation in December 2023 on whether Elexon or National Energy System Operator (NESO) should be the market facilitator delivery body. Today we are publishing our decision that Elexon will be the market facilitator delivery body. In this decision document we summarise consultation responses, set out the rationale for our decision and explain next steps. We will carry out further work to develop and establish the market facilitator, working with Elexon and wider stakeholders across three workstreams: detailed design implementation transition (from Open Networks) Main document Market facilitator delivery body decision [PDF, 337.94KB] Print this page Related links Decision on future of local energy institutions and governance Consultation: Future of local energy institutions and governance Call for Input: Future of local energy institutions and governance Call for Input: The Future of Distributed Flexibility Share the page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Close