Charlotte Johnson
The future of carbon pricing: coal-ling out the fossil fools
Carbon pricing is considered one of the most important policies to reduce emissions by increasing the operating costs of high carbon...
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Simon Hilton
- Aug 15
- 4 min
Flexing Domestic Assets
The challenges, improvements and what's next The UK energy system is going through the largest change in decades, in a bid to transition...
Martin Tejada
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Back to School
Guiding the Talent of the Future At KrakenFlex we are committed to tackling climate change utilising innovative technology solutions. We...
Charlotte Johnson
- Jul 19
- 6 min
Roads to Net Zero: A view on NGESO’s latest Future Energy Scenarios
Yesterday, National Grid ESO (NGESO) released its Future Energy Scenarios 2022. A report published annually which outlines NGESO’s views...
Andrew Walker
- May 13
- 6 min
The day in the life of a Data Scientist
The internet would have you believe that Data Science is simultaneously the sexiest job of the 21st century and the role most likely to...
Andy Molineux
- May 3
- 4 min
Winning ideas: What happened at our annual ‘Krakathon’?
Tech innovation is something we’re hugely passionate about here at KrakenFlex. We live and breathe it - it’s simply in our DNA! One of...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Apr 22
- 2 min
KrakenFlex and Danske Commodities partner up to flexibly manage green assets globally
Octopus Energy Group’s KrakenFlex to enable Danske Commodities to access the UK and other flexibility markets Manchester, 22 April 2022 -...
Charlotte Johnson
- Apr 8
- 2 min
Dynamic Regulation: Ready, set, go!
Currently, the GB electricity system is experiencing lower inertia and larger, more frequent imbalances than ever before. A few years ago...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Apr 5
- 2 min
Manchester Born and Bread!
Seven years ago, on a cold wet day in Lancashire, our founders pondered over a falafel how their idea for controlling millions of energy...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Apr 1
- 5 min
Lessons from the Reframe conference
The end of March marks the end of Women’s History Month in the UK. It’s a good time to reflect on the events and conversations that took...
Fiona Law
- Mar 7
- 11 min
Day in the life of a software engineer at KrakenFlex
Hi I'm Fiona and I am a Software Engineer at KrakenFlex. It's hard to sum up what a Software Engineer does, because there’s so many...
Rebecca Mahoney
- Mar 7
- 7 min
The books that have shaped my leadership journey
“Which training courses do you recommend?” In the course of my career as consultant delivery manager, mentor, agile coach, and now...
Charlotte Johnson
- Mar 7
- 4 min
IWD 2022: Celebrating women in energy
The energy sector has traditionally been a male-dominated environment but thanks to efforts that are being made, including to nurture the...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Hydro REIN and KrakenFlex partner on energy flexibility rollout
Hydro REIN to use Octopus Energy Group’s KrakenFlex platform to optimise the output of its solar panels and batteries New partnership to...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Feb 22
- 1 min
Announced as contenders for the 19th annual Green Energy Awards
We are among those shortlisted for the whole system innovation award at this Regen Green Energy Awards 2022. The whole system innovation...
Mike Lowe
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Into the Multiverse
Multidisciplinary Development Teams Here at KrakenFlex, we don’t just have dedicated teams of front-end engineers, back-end engineers,...
Charlotte Johnson
- Dec 20, 2021
- 5 min
Energy and flexibility in 2021: A year in review
The pandemic may yet again have dominated the headlines in 2021 but it’s also been a year to remember for the UK energy industry; from...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Tackling Climate Change Together!
KrakenFlex optimising Emirates Stadium's 2.6MW battery Arsenal are on a mission to become “the most sustainable football club”. To help...
Matt Wapples
- Dec 3, 2021
- 5 min
To flex or not to flex? 5 common barriers to companies embracing energy flexibility
The UK government was the first major economy in the world to pass into law a commitment to ending its contribution to global warming by...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
Podcast with our CEO
KrakenFlex and software for distributed energy resource management as told by Devrim Celal For our first episode under our rebrand we...