Grid Services · All markets · Stacked simultaneously
Every flexibility market.
One platform.
Stacked simultaneously.
DNOs, NESO and wholesale operators all pay for the flexibility your assets can provide. AmpVerve is the platform that connects every one of those markets to a single asset base.
3
GB market registrations held: SSEN, UKPN and NESO DFS
£133
per MWh, NESO DFS volume-weighted clearing price, 2025-26
£1
per kW per year, evidenced DNO local flexibility rate
2
DNO registrations held, SSEN and UKPN
Revenue streams
Three revenue streams.
Stacked simultaneously.
Most flexibility platforms access one market. Some manage two. AmpVerve's proprietary multi-market orchestration participates in all three from the same asset base at the same time.
01 / 03
DNO Local Flexibility
£0.50–1.00/kW/yr
Contracted annual payments from distribution network operators for demand flexibility. Predictable, annually tendered, and small: AmpVerve’s own market evidence puts realistic value at £0.50 to £1.00 per kW per year, against a typical dispatch of about 2 MWh per MW registered. AmpVerve is registered with SSEN and UKPN. NGED and Electricity North West are in progress.
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Wholesale Energy Trading
£40–80/MWh margin
N2EX day-ahead and EPEX SPOT intraday price arbitrage. Buy cheap overnight. Reduce demand at peak. AmpVerve's AI forecasting engine optimises every asset across both platforms automatically.
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Balancing Mechanism
Pending accreditation
NESO’s continuous balancing market. AmpVerve’s Elexon interfaces are built and pending accreditation, so this route is not open to customers today. Secondary BMU registration carries a 1 MW minimum under BSC P344, and no reliable published benchmark exists for sub-MW aggregated units.
Combined, for a well-stacked commercial asset
£15–60/kW/yr
A well-stacked commercial asset earns this range across the markets AmpVerve can open today. Routes AmpVerve cannot open, including the Balancing Mechanism and the Capacity Market, are priced separately and excluded from the total.
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DNO local flexibility
Four network operators.
Two registrations held, two in progress.
Every Distribution Network Operator runs local flexibility tenders paying contracted annual rates for demand that can be turned up or down on request. AmpVerve handles registration, bidding and dispatch in the territories where it is registered.
● Registered
SSEN ElectronConnect
South East England · South of Scotland
AmpVerve is a registered SSEN flexibility provider under designation VAOU_WA. SSEN runs regular contracting windows through 2026. Assets in the SSEN territory can be onboarded for the next window. SSEN is targeting 5GW of flexibility by 2028.
5GW
SSEN flexibility target by 2028
VAOU_WA
AmpVerve provider designation
Registered
UKPN LocalFlex & MegaWatt Dispatch
London · South East · East of England
Power Networks covers the highest-density area for public sector EV fleets and commercial buildings in the UK. UKPN's LocalFlex platform and MegaWatt Dispatch Service both pay for demand flexibility. UKPN launched the MegaWatt Dispatch Service in March 2025 - one of the most commercially attractive new flexibility products in the market.
8M
customers in UKPN territory
March 2025
MegaWatt Dispatch Service launch
Registration in Progress
NGED - National Grid Electricity Distribution
Midlands · South West · South Wales
NGED serves the Midlands and South West - areas with significant NHS, local authority and logistics fleet concentrations. NGED's annual flexibility tender reached 196GWh in 2025 and the programme is growing. AmpVerve’s NGED registration is in progress, so this territory is not open to customers yet.
196GWh
NGED tender volume in 2025
7.8M
customers in NGED territory
Registration in Progress
Electricity North West
North West England · North Wales
ENW covers North West England and North Wales. In autumn 2025, ENW tendered 1,588MW across 220 locations - one of the largest single DNO flexibility procurement rounds. AmpVerve’s ENW registration is in progress, so this territory is not open to customers yet.
1,588MW
ENW tender volume autumn 2025
220
locations in ENW tender round
Balancing Mechanism
The highest-value
behind-the-meter market.
The Balancing Mechanism is NESO's continuous market for matching supply and demand. Assets dispatch at up to £200 per MWh during tight supply periods - the highest per-unit revenue available to any behind-the-meter operator. Until recently, participation required generator-scale infrastructure and Elexon compliance overhead that no small fleet or building could afford.
AmpVerve has built the Elexon interfaces for this route, including Physical Notifications, bid-offer submission and EDL dispatch. They are pending accreditation. Virtual Lead Party, Asset Metered VLP and Virtual Trading Party roles are in qualification, not held, so the Balancing Mechanism is not a route AmpVerve can open for a customer today.
What AmpVerve handles for you
✓Balancing Mechanism Unit (BMU) registration with Elexon
✓Physical Notification (PN) submission every settlement period
✓Offer and Bid submission within ESO timescales
✓Virtual Lead Party aggregator accreditation
✓Monthly settlement reconciliation and payment processing
How BM dispatch works for your fleet
1
AmpVerve submits your Physical Notification
Every settlement period (30 min), AmpVerve submits your expected consumption or generation to Elexon as your Physical Notification - the baseline that defines your flexibility capacity.
2
NESO issues a dispatch instruction
When the ESO needs demand reduction or increase, they send a dispatch instruction to your BMU. AmpVerve receives this continuously and validates it against your operational constraints.
3
AmpVerve dispatches your assets safely
If the dispatch is safe within your constraints, AmpVerve executes it across your fleet or building assets within the required timescale. If it would breach a constraint, it is declined automatically.
4
Revenue settles monthly
BM revenue settles via Elexon's BSC settlement process at the accepted offer price - up to £200/MWh at peak. AmpVerve reports this in your dashboard alongside DNO and wholesale revenue.
Ancillary services
Frequency response services
for fast-responding assets.
NESO procures Dynamic Containment, Dynamic Regulation, Dynamic Moderation and Firm Frequency Response to maintain grid frequency. EV batteries and heat pump thermal buffers are particularly well-suited due to their fast response capability.
Ancillary service
Response time
EV fleet eligible
Heating eligible
Dynamic Containment (DC)
Within 1 second
✓ Fast-response inverters
◐ Buffer storage only
Dynamic Regulation (DR)
10–30 seconds
✓ All smart chargers
✓ Heat pumps + district
Dynamic Moderation (DM)
30 seconds–1 min
✓ All OCPP chargers
✓ All smart heating
Firm Frequency Response (FFR)
Primary + secondary
✓ Assessed by AmpVerve
◐ Case by case
AmpVerve assesses ancillary service eligibility for every connected asset during onboarding. Dynamic Containment and Dynamic Regulation participation is modelled, not held: these routes are priced separately and excluded from any revenue total until AmpVerve can open them for you.
Capacity Market
Annual contracted revenue
for committing to be available.
The Capacity Market pays assets for committing to be available during periods of tight supply, typically winter peaks. AmpVerve models eligibility for T-4 and T-1 auctions. Registration is not held today.
£20–40
per kW per year
contracted in advance
contracted in advance
T-4 + T-1
auctions AmpVerve
participates in
participates in
T-4 Auctions
Held four years before delivery - gives AmpVerve time to register your assets, model eligibility and submit bids well in advance of the delivery period. Contracted payments begin from the delivery year.
T-1 Auctions
Held one year before delivery for additional capacity. Higher clearing prices than T-4 in recent auctions. T-1 is modelled for assets that missed T-4 or whose eligibility changed.
Eligibility Assessment
Not all assets qualify, and de-rating is decisive: demand-side response de-rates at 71 to 86 per cent. AmpVerve models Capacity Market eligibility during onboarding. AmpVerve is not a registered Capacity Market participant, so it cannot enter assets into an auction on your behalf today.
Market trends 2026
What Europe's flex
operators are building next.
Conversations with eight European flex leaders this year converged on three structural shifts in how distributed assets are coordinated, colocated, and commercialised. AmpVerve's architecture is aligned with all three. Here is what is changing and how the platform maps to it.
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Multi pool coordination
Pool by asset class, one balancing layer above
Operators are abandoning the idea of stacking virtual power plants on top of each other. The cleaner pattern is one pool per asset class (EVs, heat pumps, batteries, home energy systems), each run by a specialist, all rolling up into a single balancing layer inside the utility. AmpVerve Connect runs the pool adapters, AmpVerve Brain runs the optimisation, and AmpVerve Trade exposes the balancing interface.
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Colocation and portfolio optimisation
One site, one owner, multiple revenue streams
Standalone batteries are getting harder to permit, so storage is being added to existing solar sites and optimised across multiple value streams in time blocks: ancillary services overnight, self consumption by day, peak shaving at the industrial peak. The constraint is fragmented behind the meter ownership, not technology. AmpVerve Brain runs the joint optimisation across solar, storage, load, and EV, with AmpVerve Twin used to model tolling and shaped delivery scenarios upfront.
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Value chain consolidation
Retailers go upstream, producers go downstream
Retailers are moving into asset ownership. Independent producers are pushing into retail and aggregation. Small energy management vendors are climbing into trading. The structural blocker for incumbents is a customer data model built around consumers and delivery points rather than physical assets that can be aggregated. AmpVerve is asset centric from day one, with Connect, Brain, Trade, Settle, and Comply exposed as composable layers so partners can integrate selectively.
Eight European flex leaders agree
Colocation is the
new operating reality.
new operating reality.
Standalone single revenue stream models are running out of headroom. Operators that joint optimise across asset classes, contracts, and markets pull ahead. AmpVerve's twelve awareness layers (price, weather, travel, comfort, demand, solar, battery, grid, tariff, carbon, asset, settlement) were built for exactly this workload. Talk to us about your behind the meter portfolio.
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