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