Story-driven governance scenarios with real GB actors. Make decisions as Ofgem, NESO, or DNOs and see how your choices affect system security, affordability, and net zero progress.
These scenarios are based on real regulatory frameworks but use fictional situations. Build a defensible decision trace that you could present in a boardroom.
Educational Scenarios
These scenarios are fictional but based on real GB regulatory frameworks. Actor responses and metrics are simulated for learning purposes.
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
National Energy System Operator
Elexon Limited
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The formal dispute workflow. Evidence requirements, audit trails, and the decision process that makes governance defensible.
Open governance engineA one-page executive view. What happened, what we decided, and what we will do next. Copyable for real presentations.
Open boardroom modeLive-feeling incident drills for governance. Alerts, timelines, and decisions under pressure without touching real systems.
Open crisis roomYou will make decisions under uncertainty, justify them with evidence, and see consequences across six metrics: system security, affordability, net zero progress, customer protection, operational efficiency, and stakeholder trust.
Regulatory decision-making
How Ofgem balances consumer protection, network investment, and innovation.
System operation trade-offs
How NESO manages security, cost, and decarbonisation in real-time.
Distribution challenges
How DNOs manage connection queues, flexibility, and the DSO transition.
Decision trace
Build an audit trail of what you decided and why, reviewable by others.
A DNO refuses to publish detailed LTDS feeder capacity data, citing cybersecurity concerns. Connection applicants cannot assess queue positions. Ofgem must decide whether to mandate publication.
A public-facing demand forecast tool produces incorrect predictions during a cold snap, causing market participants to over-procure. NESO must explain the error and restore confidence.
With 500GW in the queue and 10+ year wait times, Ofgem considers radical intervention. DNOs argue queue reform will strand sunk costs. Generators threaten legal action over queue positions.
A DNO transitions to DSO capabilities and must procure flexibility services. Incumbent flexibility providers allege the DNO is favouring its own network solutions. Market neutrality is questioned.
DNOs request half-hourly smart meter data for network planning. Consumer groups raise privacy concerns. Suppliers argue competitive harm. Who gets access to what data, and under what conditions?
Regulatory References
Scenarios are based on: RIIO-ED2 Business Plans, Connection Reform Significant Code Review, DSO Capability Maturity Framework, Grid Code, Balancing and Settlement Code, and Ofgem Data Best Practice Guidance.