CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2026 FINALISTS!
Free-to-attend ceremony at Utility Week Live.
AI for Flex Award
✰ GridBeyond - FlexPilot: Intelligent AI Co-Pilot for Energy Optimisation
✰ Gridsight - Beyond Static Limits: AI-Enabled Flexible Exports in Practice
✰ Octopus Energy - Intelligent Octopus Go
Best Flexible Storage Project
✰ Luthmore - Battery-enabled Boiler
✰ Northern Powergrid and E.ON Next - Empower Flex
✰ PowerUp Off-Grid Services, MEP Technologies and Nevadic - Zero-carbon Energy Battery Resource As-a-Service
Best I&C Initiative
✰ EDF - Powering Participation: The UK’s First I&C BtM Trading Model
✰ Flexitricity and Exergy3 - Annandale Distillery
✰ Palm Paper and Brook Green Supply - Unlocking Industrial Flexibility
Best Local Energy Project
✰ Liverpool City Council, SP Energy Networks, and ENQUIP Energy - CivicFlex
✰ Metis by SMS and Oxfordshire County Council - Oxfordshire Area-Wide Retrofit Programme
✰ Powergrid, TNEI and LCP Delta - Community DSO
✰ Powys County Council and Warm Wales – ‘Warm Powys’ scheme
Best Multi-Vector Project for Flexibility
✰ Flexitricity - FlexGO
✰ SP Electricity North West - Active Network Management
✰ SP Energy Networks - Storm Flex
Best Use of Energy Flexibility Data
✰ E.ON - Project Era
✰ E.ON - Project Symphony
✰ Metis by SMS and Oxfordshire County Council - Oxfordshire Area-Wide Retrofit Programme
✰ UK Power Networks DSO - Daily Flexibility Dispatch Data
Flexibility Pioneer of the Year
✰ Jean Coleman, E.ON Next
✰ Pamela Mathieson, SP Energy Networks
✰ Arindam Mandal, Cognizant Worldwide
✰ Cathy McClay, National Grid Electricity Distribution
✰ David Watson, Ohme
Flexibility Rising Star
✰ Georgia Edwards, UK Power Networks DSO
✰ George Fournarakis, SP Energy Networks
✰ Reuben Leaver, National Grid Electricity Distribution
✰ Chloe McLaren Webb, Centre for Sustainable Energy
✰ Cameron Smart, EDF
Flexibility Service Provider of the Year
✰ EDF
✰ E.ON Next
✰ Flexitricity
✰ Octopus Energy
✰ Ohme
Domestic Flexibility Proposition of the Year
✰ E.ON Next and Podero - Next Gen Home
✰ ESB Networks - Is This a Good Time? Programme
✰ National Grid Electricity Distribution - EQUINOX (Equitable Novel Flexibility Exchange)
✰ National Grid Electricity Distribution - FlexUp
✰ Tepeo - ZEB Heat Battery Boiler
✰ Utilita Energy - Utilita Optimise
Energy Network of the Year
✰ ESB Networks
✰ National Grid Electricity Distribution
✰ SP Electricity North West
✰ SP Energy Networks
✰ UK Power Networks DSO
Equity and Inclusion in Flex Award
✰ Centre for Sustainable Energy - Energy Choices Tool
✰ National Grid Electricity Distribution - NGED’s mission: supporting market access for all
✰ Northern Powergrid and E.ON Next - Empower Flex
✰ Octopus Energy - Snug Octopus: Redefining energy flexibility with equity and inclusion at its core
✰ Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (Distribution) and Flex Assure - HOMEflex deployment
✰ SP Energy Networks - EQUIFLEX
✰ UK Power Networks DSO - Leave no one behind


