The future is flexibility: Rewarding the untapped potential of everyday energy users

When we talk about the ‘future of energy’, headlines tend to go one of two ways: One, either new generation like solar farms and big batteries are (rightly) celebrated; or two, we panic about growing demand and looming shortages. Invariably, the solution put forward to the second is to “build more, generate more”. But this approach overlooks  a great big missing piece: the grid.

The grid is the invisible hero of the energy transition.