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Flexitricity brings new revenue and increased asset reliability to UK businesses,
while reducing carbon emissions and risk in the national electricity system.
Flexitricity uses Britain's most advanced smart grid system to unlock the hidden
flexibility of commercial energy users and small generators.
With Flexitricity, energy users are earning revenue now, by helping secure
electricity supplies and supporting the renewable energy revolution.
1 Demand on the national 2 Short Term Operating Reserve (STOR) is 4 Electricity provided by Flexitricity’s 5 With Flexitricity’s
electricity supply used to provide extra electricity for smart grid keeps the electricity smart grid available
sometime pushes the short periods. system stable through the peak. to National Grid,
system towards capacity. fewer coal power
stations have to be
kept on hot standby.
National Grid calls on
Flexitricity’s smart grid
to contribute electricity
into STOR.
3 Flexitricity’s rapid
6 delivery of energy
can be used to
balance fluctuations
in renewable energy
generation.
This data centre has
temporarily opted out of
the Flexitricity smart grid in This factory has automatically
order to carry out essential delayed a non-critical process
maintenance. to reduce electricity demand.
exceed £100,000 per annum on a single, develop new ways of addressing the
medium-sized industrial site. short term balancing requirements of the
national electricity system. Working with
Flexitricity’s smart grid communicates an enviable blue-chip client base,
directly with electricity generating and Flexitricity has become the country’s
consuming equipment on clients’ sites market leader in aggregated demand
via secure connections. This allows side management, winning awards for its Reduced carbon
Flexitricity to increase generation and team and technology along the way.
reduce consumption during short periods
of stress for National Grid – a valuable Flexitricity’s smart grid provides Short
service which helps stabilise electricity Term Operating Reserve (STOR) – the
supplies. The company’s patented most important category of fast-acting
technology and continuous service generation or demand-reduction capacity
monitoring ensure that normal core – which is held ready for National Grid, to
business operations have priority at all keep the electricity system stable during
times, while critical standby assets times of system stress. Flexitricity’s live,
become more reliable through regular operational service is available every day
testing. to National Grid.
Standby generation
Flexitricity’s approach to standby generators improves
reliability and turns “deadweight” assets into revenue
earners.
Load management
Small changes to consumption make a big difference.
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