Flexibility trading
Flexer puts your battery, solar and smart devices to work in local flexibility markets, earning you money for helping your network operator keep the grid balanced, on top of anything your tariff pays.
Beyond your meter
Network operators pay for help managing their local grids: soaking up excess wind and solar when there's too much, and easing the strain when demand peaks.
Until now that money has gone almost entirely to large industrial sites. Homes with batteries, EVs and heat pumps can do the same job. They've just never had a simple way in.
Your home, trading in local flexibility markets.
Flexibility is local: network operators publish paid opportunities for specific zones and time windows. Flexer matches your home to its zone and enters it into the markets it qualifies for, including NGED and LocalFlex.
When the network needs headroom, Flexer can discharge your battery or pause EV charging. When there's excess green energy to absorb, it charges your battery or runs your devices instead.
Flexibility contracts pay an availability fee for being on standby during a window, plus a utilisation fee when your home responds. Flexer handles the bidding, dispatch and reporting.
Earnings from your network operator, separate from and on top of your tariff.
Shîfter cuts your bill; Flexer earns from your flexibility. They share the same connection.
Uses the battery, solar, EV charger and heat pump you already own.
Flexer only trades what your home can spare. Comfort and charge levels are never compromised.
Shîfter optimises your own energy use against your tariff, cutting your bill. Flexer earns additional money from your local network operator by trading your home's flexibility in their markets. They're designed to work together.
Two things: an availability payment for having your home on standby during a flexibility window, and a utilisation payment when your home actually delivers, by discharging, pausing charging or absorbing excess energy.
Flexibility markets are local, so it depends on your network zone and what your operator is currently procuring. We'll check which markets your home qualifies for.
No. Flexibility windows are limited, never more than eight hours per opportunity, and your home's own needs always take priority. Most of the time you won't notice anything at all.
Tell us about your home and battery and we'll check which flexibility markets you qualify for.
