Charlotte Johnson
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...
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Mel Mercer-Royce
- Feb 23, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min
She’s won of our own!
Charlotte Johnson wins Young Energy Professional of the Year Our very own Charlotte Johnson has won the Young Energy Professional of the...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Nov 2, 2021
- 4 min
Will it be a COP out?
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is officially underway in Glasgow, with world leaders joining tens of...
Andy Harper
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
A beginners guide to energy flexibility
Here at KrakenFlex we control in real time a variety of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) across a range of industries. In this series...
Charlotte Johnson
- Oct 14, 2021
- 5 min
The (im)perfect storm: a winter outlook
The recent energy crisis has led to questions around whether or not there will be sufficient generation available on the system for...
Mike Lowe
- Sep 24, 2021
- 4 min
See you in a few weeks
Surviving (and Thriving) as a Remote Developer Back on the 13th March 2020, I said what I thought was a temporary farewell to my...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
Part 2: Same same, but different!
The impact of DER on the grid In part 1, we covered how DER could be any form of decentralised generation or storage asset – from wind,...
Mel Mercer-Royce
- Sep 7, 2021
- 3 min
Part 1: Same same, but different!
Australia and the UK grappling with the rise in DER I have recently returned to the UK and joined KrakenFlex after nearly nine years...
Matt Wapples
- Sep 5, 2021
- 1 min
Upside Energy becomes KrakenFlex
Upside Energy has been renamed to KrakenFlex in a move that will enable an international expansion drive. The change marks a further step...
Charlotte Johnson
- Jul 13, 2021
- 4 min
To Net Zero and Beyond: A view on National Grid’s new Future Energy Scenarios
Yesterday, National Grid ESO (NGESO) published its Future Energy Scenarios 2021. A report that the NGESO publishes annually which...
Charlotte Johnson
- Jun 9, 2021
- 5 min
Frequency Response: The Past, The Present and The Future
The UK electricity is an Alternating Current supply at about 230 volts with a frequency of 50Hz (which means it changes direction and...
Charlotte Johnson
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
What does Ofgem’s Targeted Charging Review mean for flexibility?
In November 2019 Ofgem published its much-anticipated decision on the Targeted Charging Review (TCR) — an initiative that aims to ensure...
Charlotte Johnson
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Rise of the Capacity Market
Yesterday, the much anticipated T-1 GB Capacity Market auction cleared at £45/kW with 2.25GW of de-rated capacity awarded contracts,...
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