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The Utility Week Flex Awards Awards are back highlighting the achievements of those taking demand side response into the mainstream. The awards return as part of Utility Week Live on 25 May 2027.

Returning for a fourth year, the Flex Awards are a key part of Utility Week Live’s Energy Flexibility content programme, shining a spotlight on innovation, achievement and impact across the sector.

By sponsoring the Awards, your brand will be at the heart of the celebration, taking place on the Utility Week Keynote Stage, gaining high-profile recognition alongside the sector’s leading innovators and connecting with influential decision-makers from across the energy system.

On the day, you’ll present an award, celebrate the winners, and network with 175+ senior industry leaders. Your brand will be prominently displayed on-screen during the event and throughout the show hall, making this a unique opportunity to showcase your leadership and influence in the sector.

SHOW YOUR COMMITMENT TO CELEBRATING OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AND INNOVATION IN ENERGY FLEXIBILITY >>

Place your flexibility platform, storage technology or aggregation proposition at the centre of GB’s flexibility market and connect with the organisations actively building it, in a zone built specifically for this community.

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Visbility

Put your brand in front of the DNO flexibility directors, aggregators, storage developers and NESO market leads shaping GB's flexibility market, raising your profile as an organisation invested in the sector's progress.

Credibility

Align your brand with the innovation and hard-won expertise driving the flexibility transition, showing the market you support the standards this community holds itself to.

Connection

Build relationships with the people procuring, financing and delivering the UK's flexibility and storage capacity, in a relaxed setting that turns one evening of recognition into a year of new partnerships.

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The free-to-attend ceremony will be on the show floor at: 

Utility Week Live 2027 (25-26 May, NEC) brings something new to the whole UK utilities sector. Seven new zones - Asset Management, Capital Projects, Customer, Digital, Environment, Flexibility and Storage, and Workforce - connect buyers and sellers across Europe's only pan-utility exhibition, attended by more than 4,500 industry professionals.

The award-winning content programme spans eight stages, shaped by Utility Week's own editorial team and top utility executives across the advisory boards.

Expect brand-new experiences alongside returning favourites, helping you connect, learn and stay ahead of industry change.

Congratulations to the 2026 winners!

2026 SUPPORTERS