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Consumers must be active participants, not just “bill‑payers”: ADE Demand
Households and businesses must be empowered to be more flexible about how and when they use electricity, according to ADE: Demand.
The Consumer-Led Clean Power report, published on 12 June, sets out the need for at least a five-fold increase in consumer-led flexibility being utilised in the next five years (from 2.5GW today to 10GW-12GW in 2030).
The organisation said that unlocking 10GW of consumer-led flexibility is equivalent to a third of the UK’s entire gas-fired power station capacity (16 gas-fired power stations). But the report argues that market rules designed for fossil fuel powered plants are blocking small-scale flexibility. It also noted that data systems are fragmented and consumers lack trust.
It calls for urgent reforms to a regulations to allow small-scale flexibility to participate fully and earn fair value and said that participation in grid‑balancing programs should be simplified.
It also recommended a Delivery Board, co-chaired by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and a ministerially appointed consumer-led flexibility Champion be created to enforce binding targets and secure open data infrastructure.
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