What is Demand Side Response / Demand Side Flexibility?

Demand side response or demand side flexibility is where businesses are financially incentivised to reduce or increase their energy use to provide flexibility to National Grid or DNOs as and when they need it.

When a business takes part in demand side response, typical processes that they modulate to deliver DSR include air conditioning, greenhouse lighting, electric heating, refrigeration, pumping, combined heat and power, and energy storage. These are processes and assets whose consumption can be adjusted for short periods with no impact on day-to-day business operations. As well as filling in for shortfalls or rapid spikes in national demand, businesses taking part in demand side response can also be incentivised to use excess green energy from the grid, for example on a windy day.

Flexitricity helps you establish how much flexibility your site is able to offer, which services are the best fit, and how much you can earn. We then aggregate your site with other assets in our virtual power plant to allow participation (sites can also participate without aggregation, provide they have the required capacity—normally over 1MW). Flexitricity manages the onboarding process, strategy and 24/7 operations and dispatch for your assets.

You can kick-start this process by calling us on 0131 221 8100 or email [email protected]
www.flexitricity.com