Flexitricity Virtual Power Plant and FlexGO

Flexitricity is a UK flexible energy company that describes itself as a virtual power plant operator. It optimises energy assets, provides demand side response and gives customers access to flexibility markets. Its virtual power plant passed 1 GW in January 2024.

Services cover asset optimisation, demand side response, infrastructure, and systems and control. Market access includes the Balancing Mechanism, frequency response, reserve services, the Capacity Market, local constraint markets, the Demand Flexibility Service and DNO flexibility services. FlexGO targets businesses with refrigeration, heat pumps or EV chargers. Named customers include Axpo, Low Carbon, Thrive Renewables and Gore Street Capital.

• Asset optimisation: optimisation of batteries and generation across markets.
• Demand side response: flexibility from industrial and commercial loads.
• Market access: Balancing Mechanism, frequency response, reserve, Capacity Market and local constraint markets.
• FlexGO: end-to-end flexibility offering for refrigeration, heat pumps and EV chargers.
• Systems and control: infrastructure and control systems that dispatch customer assets.
• Virtual power plant: aggregated portfolio above 1 GW.

Reference for Vietnamese cold-storage and food-processing operators evaluating demand-response revenue. Learning model for EVN and regulators drafting aggregator rules. Partnership option for local BESS developers seeking an optimisation operator.

Gives battery, solar and flexible-load owners access to many GB flexibility markets through one operator. The aggregator is approved under updated market access rules and is a Flex Assure member. FlexGO manages the process end to end for businesses with refrigeration, heat pumps or EV chargers.

The UK has one of the most developed flexibility markets, and aggregators have grown with battery storage and demand-side response. Vietnam and Southeast Asia are only starting to define aggregator roles, so UK market design and operating experience are useful references for regulators and early movers.

UK company; the website describes it as a UK flexible energy company and shows an Edinburgh dialling code. Press page lists the acquisition by Drax (2026-04), approval as first flexible energy aggregator under updated market access rules (2024-04) and a 1 GW VPP milestone (2024-01).