Smart Heating · Thermal flexibility · All asset types
Your heating system
is a grid asset.
It just doesn't
know it yet.
A heat pump. A hot water cylinder. A district heating buffer. A commercial HVAC system. These are not just heating assets, they are thermal batteries that can charge and discharge on demand. AmpVerve connects them to grid flexibility markets, starting with Great Britain, and earns contracted revenue from capacity you are already running.
£600
per year from a domestic heat pump, Great Britain, modelled
£280K
per year from a 2MW hospital district heating system, Great Britain, modelled
3
Great Britain markets stacked from the same boiler
Zero
change to comfort or temperature schedules
The thermal advantage
Thermal inertia is your
hidden superpower.
Thermal systems have one unique advantage over electrochemical batteries: inertia. A well-insulated building pre-heated to 21.5°C can coast through a 30-minute grid event without anyone noticing. A hot water cylinder charged to 65°C holds that energy for hours.
This makes thermal assets ideal for the kind of sustained demand flexibility every grid needs most. In Great Britain it is the kind that earns the best contracted rates from DNOs who have been struggling to find it at scale.
AmpVerve orchestrates thermal and electrical flexibility assets, EV fleets and smart heating, through the same AI engine, in the same operational window, into the same markets. One platform. One contract. One monthly settlement.
Heating and fleet, one engine
AmpVerve orchestrates smart heating and EV fleet assets simultaneously from the same AI engine, into the same grid markets, under a single aggregator registration. Two UK patent applications covering the multi-market dispatch methodology are filed and pending. Neither has been examined or granted.
How thermal pre-charging works
00:00–06:00 · Overnight cheap window
Pre-charging
Heat pump runs at full output. Thermal buffer or cylinder charges to maximum. Energy cost: near zero.
07:00–09:00 · Morning peak
Holding
Minimal electrical draw. Stored heat serves building demand. Grid earns £180–200/MWh from your flexibility.
09:00–17:00 · Daytime
Optimising
AmpVerve continuously optimises between heating need and market price. Revenue earns throughout.
🌡️ Building stays at target temperature throughout. Occupants notice nothing.
Compatible assets
Every thermal asset.
Residential to industrial.
AmpVerve supports every type of smart heating and hot water asset, from a home heat pump to a hospital district heating network with a 5MW buffer tank. Revenue figures below are modelled for Great Britain in GBP.
Residential
Domestic heat pumps & hot water
Home heat pumps with thermal buffer tanks, smart hot water cylinders and hybrid heat pump/solar systems. AmpVerve pre-heats during cheap overnight windows and earns flexibility and ancillary service revenue automatically, from DNO tenders in Great Britain.
Air source heat pumps (ASHP)
Ground source heat pumps (GSHP)
Smart hot water cylinders and immersion heaters
Electric storage heaters with smart controllers
Heat pump / solar thermal hybrid systems
£300–£600
per year from a domestic heat pump in SSEN or UKPN territory
Small commercial
Commercial hot water & small HVAC
Hotels, care homes, schools, small offices and retail units with commercial hot water cylinders, calorifiers or small HVAC systems. AmpVerve earns from the same thermal flexibility that residential assets access, at commercial scale.
Commercial calorifiers and hot water cylinders
Hotel and hospitality HVAC systems
Care home and school heating plants
Retail and leisure building HVAC
Commercial air source heat pumps (50–200kW)
£4K–£25K
per year from a 100–500kW commercial heating system
Large commercial & NHS
Large buildings, hospitals & campuses
NHS trusts, universities, large office campuses and industrial facilities with significant HVAC loads and large thermal buffer capacity. The combination of high load and operational flexibility makes large commercial heating systems among the most valuable flexibility assets in Great Britain.
Hospital and healthcare campus HVAC
University building management systems
Large office building air handling units
Industrial process heating with demand flexibility
Multi-building estate heating networks
£25K–£140K
per year from a 500kW–2MW large commercial heating system
District heating
District heating networks & heat networks
Local authority district heating networks, development heat networks and community energy schemes with centralised heat generation and large buffer storage. At scale, district heating is one of the most valuable flexibility assets available to any organisation in Great Britain, with revenue potential that dwarfs most EV fleet deployments.
LA and council district heating networks
New development heat networks (PAS 2030)
Combined heat and power (CHP) with buffer
Heat network with large thermal storage
Industrial waste heat recovery systems
£140K–£700K
per year from a 2–5MW district heating network, Great Britain DNO flexibility alone
Revenue by asset size
What heating assets
earn, market by market.
Great Britain, modelled, GBP. Figures come from published SSEN and UKPN flexibility rates and wholesale market spreads. Routes AmpVerve cannot open today, including the Balancing Mechanism, are excluded.
Heating asset
DNO flexibility
Wholesale + BM
Combined annual
Domestic heat pump (10kW)
£200–£360
£100–£240
£300–£600
Small commercial HVAC (100kW)
£2,500–£5,000
£1,500–£3,000
£4K–£8K
Commercial heating plant (500kW)
£15,000–£30,000
£10,000–£20,000
£25K–£50K
Hospital district heating (2MW)
£80,000–£140,000
£60,000–£100,000
£140K–£280K
Large industrial heating (5MW)
£200,000–£350,000
£150,000–£250,000
£350K–£700K
Modelled estimates from published SSEN and UKPN flexibility rates and N2EX/EPEX wholesale spreads. NGED is in progress and the Balancing Mechanism is pending accreditation, so neither is included. Every figure is modelled, not measured, and actual earnings vary by location, asset type and availability window.
How it works
Pre-charge. Hold. Earn.
Repeat every day.
01 / 03
Pre-charge during cheap periods
AmpVerve runs your heat pump, immersion heater or district heating system at maximum output during overnight low-price periods, storing heat in cylinders, thermal buffers or building fabric. Your energy costs fall because you are buying at the cheapest rates of the day. The stored heat is free capacity for tomorrow.
02 / 03
Hold during peak periods
During high-price or high-demand periods, AmpVerve reduces the heating system's electrical draw. The stored thermal energy continues serving your building's heating and hot water needs. Nobody notices. Comfort is unaffected. AmpVerve's Safety Agent verifies this before any dispatch instruction is issued.
03 / 03
Earn from the grid
This demand shift is equivalent in grid terms to discharging a battery. In Great Britain it accesses the same DNO flexibility tender revenue, the same Balancing Mechanism premium and the same wholesale price spread, contracted, verified and settled monthly. Your boiler earns from the same market as a grid-scale BESS.
Compatible hardware
Works with the equipment
already in your building.
Residential heat pumps
·Vaillant arotherm+
·Worcester Bosch Compress
·Samsung EHS / Gen6
·Mitsubishi Ecodan
·Daikin Altherma
·Octopus Cosy heat pump
·Viessmann Vitocal
BMS platforms
·Trend Control Systems
·Schneider EcoStruxure
·Siemens Desigo CC
·Johnson Controls Metasys
·Honeywell Enterprise BMS
·Modbus / BACnet compatible
·Open REST API integration
Hot water & storage
·Mixergy smart cylinders
·Grant Aerona smart cylinder
·Sunamp heat batteries
·Commercial calorifiers (Enerpack, Andrews)
·Smart immersion controllers
·Electric storage heaters (Dimplex)
·District heating buffer tanks (all makes)
Heating revenue estimate
Find out what your
heating assets could earn.
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Market eligibility assessment for your specific asset type and DNO territory
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Revenue model across DNO flexibility, wholesale price shifting and Balancing Mechanism
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Seasonal revenue breakdown showing winter vs. summer earnings differential
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Comparison with DNO tender windows currently open in your area
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ready to earn.
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Markets
Where this works.
Thermal flexibility is the same physics everywhere. The mechanism that pays for it is not.
Great Britain
AmpVerve is a registered flexibility provider with SSEN and UK Power Networks, so a heat pump, cylinder or district heating buffer in their territory can be dispatched into DNO local flexibility tenders without you standing up a market entity. Since 9 April 2026 NESO's Demand Flexibility Service also procures zonally with reduced eligibility thresholds, and every asset carries the settlement grade half hourly series that MHHS will settle on.
Europe
Germany's section 14a EnWG, in force since 1 January 2024, obliges the network operator to connect a heat pump above 4.2 kW in exchange for the right to dim it, with reduced network charges in return, including time variable charges since April 2025. AmpVerve handles the dimming instruction as a setpoint that keeps at least 4.2 kW available, and in the Netherlands the same setpoint control is what makes a non firm connection for a heat network bankable, behind your licence rather than instead of it.
Australia
Thermal storage is a load that can be moved into the middle of the day, when 18.9 per cent of NEM dispatch intervals cleared at or below zero in Q3 2025, and held through an evening peak that AEMO says more rooftop solar alone will not touch. AmpVerve schedules it on a control path that carries IEEE 2030.5 with CSIP-AUS and AS/NZS 4777.2, behind your market entity, and holds no AEMO or AER registration of its own.
Middle East
Across the Gulf the thermal load that matters is cooling, and there is no wholesale flexibility market, capacity market or residential time varying tariff to settle it against. The exception is Abu Dhabi, whose Demand Response Policy, effective 1 January 2024, targets 200 MW of contracted demand response by 2030 and lets a licensed provider aggregate a portfolio of customers: pre-cooling a building is the same mechanism as pre-heating, and AmpVerve runs it behind a licence holder, holding no licence in the region itself.
United States
Behind the meter heating and hot water assets earn through utility and virtual power plant programmes, whose deployments grew more than 33 per cent in a year, while wholesale aggregation under FERC Order 2222 is still being implemented state by state and PJM's lands in 2028. The stated blocker on residential VPP capacity is third party data access for enrolment and settlement, so AmpVerve supplies the per asset, per interval evidence behind your registration, holding no US market registration of its own.
Revenue figures on this page are modelled for Great Britain in GBP. Other markets are modelled on request in local currency.