TO BE PUBLISHED December 2025
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This conference will examine strategic priorities for advancing energy flexibility and strengthening grid resilience as the UK transitions towards Clean Power 2030 and wider net zero targets.
It will bring stakeholders and policymakers together to discuss recent policy developments, including the Government’s Clean Flexibility Roadmap, the National Energy System Operator’s Future Energy Scenarios, and Ofgem’s ongoing flexibility market reform.
Delegates will assess implications for network development priorities, transmission capacity planning, and the integration of renewable energy generation with storage technologies.
Consumer-led flexibility & engagement
Discussion will assess approaches for effective engagement with energy users on consumer-led flexibility, including smart tariffs, behind-the-meter systems, decentralised storage and energy-efficient technologies, with particular attention to ensuring equitable access across different income levels.
Markets, planning & finance
Further discussion will focus on addressing current barriers to market participation for flexibility providers, improving alignment between flexibility services and clean energy availability, and establishing effective frameworks for long-duration energy storage deployment. Delegates will consider the forthcoming Strategic Spatial Energy Plan and Centralised Strategic Network Plan, as well as reform to the national wholesale pricing model, with discussion on priorities for the planning and coordination of clean energy and flexibility assets.
Sessions will look at opportunities for integrating hydrogen, biogas, and other low-carbon dispatchable energy generation into existing systems. Discussion will also centre on funding frameworks for public and private investment, in the context of government funding allocations for low-carbon hydrogen, CCUS, energy storage, and clean energy R&D, to support market growth and maintain investor confidence.
Infrastructure, industrial base, workforce & governance
Further sessions consider challenges in infrastructure readiness, priorities for local authorities in planning processes, and requirements for transmission network upgrades, as well as priorities for digitalisation and improved interconnection to enable increasingly complex energy flows.
Putting in place enablers for meeting projected growth in flexibility-related sectors will also be discussed, including workforce development and building domestic manufacturing capacity, following publication of the Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan and Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan. We also expect discussion on governance arrangements needed to coordinate delivery across government departments and regulators whilst maintaining momentum towards clean energy objectives.
All delegates will be able to contribute to the output of the conference, which will be shared with parliamentary, ministerial, departmental and regulatory offices, and more widely. This includes the full proceedings and additional articles submitted by delegates. As well as key stakeholders, those already due to attend include officials from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Department for Business and Trade; Department for Infrastructure, NI; Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment, ROI; and The Scottish Government.
