29/09/2026
⚡️ Our Flexperts Sascha Beverungen and Sebestyen Haty visited FlexCon last week and Irene Guerra Gil presented on how Europe's DER boom is increasing market volatility and making the duck curve deeper – but for those who can orchestrate flexibility at scale, this represents a real opportunity.
💡 Here are our key takeaways from the event:
▸ FlexOps is the new normal. Flexibility is no longer an innovation project. It's becoming part of the core day-to-day operations of every energy retailer, as mentioned by Powernaut.
▸ The technology is ready. The grid isn't. Grid infrastructure is today's bottleneck, and DSO flexibility services are the most efficient answer to congestion and volatility. Before we spend billions on rigid grid expansion or fossil capacity markets (which artificially inflate energy costs), we have to fully unlock low-voltage flexibility across wholesale and local congestion markets.
▸ Connectivity first, monetization second. Winning pools start with high asset connectivity, local optimization and a strong customer interface. Forecasting, aggregation and market optimization come after that.
▸ Keep it simple for customers. Type-of-use tariffs, meaning a flat price with flexibility bonuses, came out as the preferred model for flexibility services.
▸ Now is the time to turn pilots into scale. Flexibility markets have to be simple to join, direct to reach and repeatable across borders, with multi-market participation across the EU.
🏠🚙 gridX is already pioneering flex at scale, in both homes and at electric vehicle charging sites. On stage, our energy market expert showed how intelligent connectivity links distributed assets straight to energy markets: single-asset cloud-to-cloud for fast reach, multi-asset gateways for full home orchestration, and the same approach for EV charging infrastructure. It's hardware-agnostic and fully automated, with zero complexity for the end user.
