Companies and consumers must be ‘active players’ in UK energy system

  • Gas
  • June 17, 2025

Encouraging companies and consumers to be ‘active players’ in the UK energy system will release the equivalent energy of 16 gas plants and enable the country to hit clean power targets, according to a new report from UK non-profit trade body the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE).

The report, , calls for urgent reforms to allow any consumers using heat pumps, solar panels, electric vehicles, factory machinery, or data centres to earn cash for using energy when there is high capacity, or deferring use when renewables output is low.

Sarah Honan, Head of Policy at ADE: Demand, said the era of treating energy consumers as passive bill payers was over.

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