Utility Week Flex Awards

The Utility Week Flex Awards returned for 2025, hosted at Europe's only pan-utility exhibition
Utility Week Live (20 May, NEC), we celebrated innovators dedicated to advancing
energy flexibility!

The Awards recognise pilot projects and trials, celebrate flexibility pioneers and unearth the companies
and individuals who are driving flex markets and end user engagement. It's the perfect platform to
showcase your leadership and commitment to the emerging market, and to align your business
with utilities' most trusted source of insight, Utility Week.

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UK Power Networks DSO

Winner for the Best Use of Energy Flexibility Data category!
Initiative: Day-ahead Flexibility Markets (UK Power Networks DSO)

AMP Clean Energy

Winner of the Best I&C Initiative category!
Initiative: Energy Centre at Simpsons Malt

SNRG

Winner of the Best Local Energy Project category!
Initiative: Bourne View, Oxfordshire

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (Distribution)

Winner of the Best Multi-Vector Project for Flexibility category!
Initiative: Shetland Enduring Solution

OVO Energy and Kaluza

Winner of the Domestic Flexibility Proposition of the Year category!
Initiative: Battery Boost

Flex markets unlocked (Arup, Energy Systems Catapult, Electron, University of Edinburgh, GreenSync, & Piclo)

Winner of the Energy Flexibility Newcomer category!

UK Power Networks DSO

Winner of the Energy Network of the Year category!

E.ON Next

Winner of the Flexibility Inclusion Award!
Initiative: Coventry Battery Pilot

Gary Swandells, Director, Smart Grid Consultancy Limited

Winner of the Flexibility Pioneer of the Year Award!

Octopus Energy

Winner of the Flexibility Service Provider of the Year Award!

Avi Aithal
Head of Open Networks programme
ENA

Alex Buckman
Innovative solutions architect - flexibility
Energy Systems Catapult

Joseph Davidson
energy systems innovation lead - Ofgem SIF
Innovate UK

Maxine Frerk
Director
Grid Edge Policy

Arjan Geveke
Director
Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG)

Roger Hey
Director
Smart GB

Tom Lowe
Founding Director
Thermal Storage UK

Andy Manning
Principal economic regulation specialist
Citizens Advice

Claire Miller
Mobility & Energy, Advisor, Innovator, Engineer
Tellegen

Natasha Mills
Policy Officer
The ADE

Andy Regan
Senior Mission Manager - A Sustainable Future
Nesta

David Richardson
Head of Energy Network Special Projects
InnovateUK

Sara Vaughn
communications and engagement
Elexon

Grant Wilson
Co-Director Birmingham Energy Institute
University of Birmingham

Best Flexible Storage Project

Awarding a project which provides flexible storage to enable a clean energy system on grid or domestic scale. This project should have been live between January 2024 and March 2025.

Best I&C Initiative

Celebrating a project or initiative which successfully engages industrial and commercial users in energy flexibility and creates long lasting partnerships for future flexibility procurement. The initiative or partnership should be live during the period January 2024 and March 2025.

Best Local Energy Project

Awarding a project, partnership or initiative developed by/or in partnership with a community group or local authority to generate, manage and use energy in a carbon conscious way to contribute to the decarbonisation of the energy grid.

Best Multi-Vector Project for Flexibility

Highlighting an outstanding example of a project or partnership across different energy vectors which dynamically and flexibly responded to the needs to the grid. This award celebrates a project, initiative or partnership which leverages multiple energy vectors to drive resilience and ensure the system can maintain balance during supply shortages or demand spikes.

The project should have operated between February 2024 and March 2025.

Best Use of Energy Flexibility Data

Recognising a project or initiative that has utilised existing data to unlock opportunities that drive efficiency, lower the barriers to entry and promote uptake of energy flexibility.

The project should have operated between February 2024 and March 2025.

Domestic Flexibility Proposition of the Year

Awarding a project that has successfully trialled or implemented energy flexibility in the domestic consumer market. This could include tariff innovation, engagement in demand response, flexing low carbon heat, automating assets or any initiative which creates clear benefits for customers, the wider energy system, and blazes a trail for further projects to come.

Energy Flexibility Newcomer

Recognising a startup or new division of a company which is paving the way for energy flexibility and seeks to enable, scale and engage end users in energy flexibility. The company or division should have been established on or after January 1st 2020.

Energy Network of the Year

Celebrating an energy network which has demonstrated a commitment to customer inclusivity, best user experience and enabling energy flexibility across its grid. This category highlights a network taking a forward-thinking approach to energy flexibility that enables grid decarbonisation, unlocks future opportunities and embraces the rollout of digital infrastructure.

Flexibility Inclusion Award

Celebrating an organisation, company or initiative, who has put vulnerable customers at the heart of their energy flexibility plans and ensures energy flexibility is accessible and inclusive for all consumers.

Flexibility Pioneer of the Year

Celebrating an individual industry champion of energy flexibility who has made an outstanding contribution to the development, roll out and scaling of energy flexibility.

Flexibility Service Provider of the Year

Awarding an Flexibility Service Provider which is demonstrating a clear commitment to removing barriers for domestic and/or I&C consumers to engage in the market and is actively delivering flexibility to networks.

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