Talking New Energy: Inside gridX - what does scaling flexibility software actually take?

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In this episode, Jon Slowe speaks to Anne Bickings, CEO of gridX, a flexibility software company operating across 15 European countries with nearly a quarter of a million connected distributed energy assets. Anne shares her journey from consulting in mobility and transportation, through grid infrastructure at E.ON, to leading a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) clean-tech scale-up celebrating its 10th birthday.

We discuss:

• What it takes to scale a SaaS clean-tech business.
• The strategic priorities shaping gridX's next chapter: connectivity, flexibility forecasting, and product development.
• How gridX connects and optimises distributed energy resources: hybrid cloud-to-cloud and gateway approaches.

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

• The flexibility market is already happening at scale today and for utilities still sitting on the fence, the commercial case is clear: smart tariffs and flexibility monetisation can reduce churn and grow margin and revenue.