Talking New Energy: Can flexibility finally scale across Europe? Insights from Powernaut

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In this episode, Stephen Harkin speaks to Florentijn Degroote, Co-founder and CEO of Powernaut, about the evolution of flexibility markets and virtual power plants (VPPs) across Europe.

As power systems become increasingly decentralised and electrified, flexibility is becoming a critical enabler of the energy transition. Florentine shares his perspective on how utilities, retailers and independent power producers can unlock value from distributed energy resources, from batteries and EVs to solar and commercial assets. 

We discuss:

• How flexibility is moving from pilot projects to large-scale commercial deployment across Europe.
• The challenges of aggregating and optimising diverse energy assets within virtual power plants.
• The role of AI, standardisation and customer engagement in scaling flexibility markets.

What’s one thing you would like listeners to take away from this?

• Flexibility is no longer an emerging concept. The technology is proven, the market opportunity is growing, and the focus is now on overcoming the operational, regulatory and customer adoption challenges needed to scale.