The Bond, Birmingham
Tuesday 3 March
View the slides from the day here:
Beginners guide to flexibility
Home Response: Democratising Access To Network Flexibility Services
Being smarter and more flexible with our energy use is key to tackling the climate emergency. As we head towards a decentralised and decarbonised energy future, we need local and community participation to gain customers’ trust and engage people with the changes and benefits of using energy in a smarter and more flexible way.
However, results from the first year of local flexibility markets show that they’ve been dominated by incumbent fossil fuel generators. To redress this balance and help community and local renewable energy organisations play a central role in our future energy system with smarter energy use, Regen and Western Power Distribution (WPD) are hosting a series of free events, ‘Communities and the smart energy revolution’.
This event will be an interactive forum for community energy groups, local authorities and local energy stakeholders to collaborate and learn from one another to help develop local energy projects. WPD experts were on hand to update you on the latest innovation projects and new flexibility markets, helping build partnerships that generate income for local organisations, using the network more efficiently to enable more renewable energy to connect.
Flexibility markets are an emerging value stream for energy generators and consumers, and delegates were able to find out how these services work, heard about new projects happening on the ground from the most advanced community and local energy groups, and learned about how their community can access new local electricity data which can open up the smart grid.
WPD are looking to roll out the ground-breaking OpenLV platform which makes local electricity data available to communities and businesses. Organisations interested in accessing this data can express their interest and discuss the programme with WPD at these events.
