Solar & Storage Live London 

I was on the floor at Solar & Storage Live London on 29 April. ExCeL, 200+ exhibitors, 150 speakers, more than 10,000 attendees across installers, DNOs, developers, C&I and utilities.

Five things that stood out. UK market, May 2026.

BESS economics have moved from “if” to “how”
↳ Co-location with solar is now the default conversation, not the exotic one. Every stand was talking revenue stacking, not whether storage pays back.

Flexibility is finally on the main agenda
↳ Dedicated tracks on grid connectivity, reform and flex sat next to module and inverter halls. Two years ago flex was a side room. This year it had its own queue.

V2G has crossed from pilot to product
↳ Bidirectional chargers, V2G-ready EVs and the first integrated UK consumer offers were on display. The hardware story is finally catching up to the market story.

The connection queue is the headline blocker
↳ Every developer conversation circled back to grid timelines. NESO’s December 2025 reform (132 GW aligned to Clean Power 2030, 283 GW total pipeline) came up constantly. The queasiness was about what does not make the cut.

Almost nobody was talking about verification
↳ Hundreds of vendors selling assets, optimisation and VPP aggregation. Vanishingly few addressing how the kilowatt is proven, settled and audited across P415, P483 and DFS bidirectional. That gap was the most interesting thing in the building.

The pattern across the day: the UK market has solved hardware availability and is solving market access. Verification is the next bottleneck, and it is still mostly invisible to vendors marketing single-layer products.

That gap is what we have built at AmpVerve. The Trusted Execution Layer for V2G, V2X and Flexibility VPPs. Bid, deliver, verify, settle, in one auditable chain. www.ampverve.com
If you were there, what did you notice that I missed?