Households are powering the clean energy revolution across the Midlands, South West and South Wales.
New data from National Grid’s Distribution System Operator (DSO) shows that every single dispatched flexibility service in 2025 has been zero carbon.
Most of that power came from homes using low carbon tech like solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles.
While fossil fuel sources can still take part in flexibility markets, renewable power keeps winning on cost.
The price difference cuts bills for all customers, and participating households earn from shifting their energy use.
Helen Sawdon, Head of Operations at National Grid’s DSO, said: “Increasingly, households are adopting low carbon solutions: electric vehicles, solar panel, heat pumps and more. This shift is transforming our flexibility market, tackling both costs and carbon, while boosting resilience across the electricity network.”
Since April, National Grid has carried out more than 6,400 flexibility events, each one zero carbon. Together they have delivered over 1,110 MWh of clean, affordable flexibility — enough to power 148,648 homes for a day or drive an electric vehicle to the moon and back nine times.
Sawdon said flexibility brings three big wins for consumers.
It helps run the network more efficiently, keeping costs down. It cuts emissions by using mostly zero carbon sources.
And it boosts competition, driving down prices. “We are seeing a big increase in market competition, enabling us to access flexibility services that are up to 34% lower than the ceiling prices we advertised,” she said.
The number of registered flexibility assets has doubled in a year.
Companies offering flexible demand, generation or storage can join the Market Gateway platform at marketgateway.nationalgrid.co.uk
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