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1. 2026 Flexibility plan progress assessment.
You can only manage what you measure. The 2026 Flexibility plan progress report is now available. Check it out to find out how the flexibility experts across the FlexForum membership rate flexibility progress.
2. A deep dive on pricing and physical orchestration mechanisms is underway.
FlexForum Members took a hard look at wholesale signals on 20 October with the generous help of some experts.
Notes from the session will be available just now.
Notes from the first workshop (on 4 June) looking at the factors determining the design and offer of customer proposition are available here.
FlexForum is taking a trip through the electricity supply chain considering what pricing and physical signals are needed to get a smart system which routinely uses flexibility to benefit households, businesses and communities.
The purpose of this deep dive is to produce a much-needed shared whole-of-system view of how value signals, dispatch signals and customer propositions fit together and establish a clear, shared view of the range of pricing and physical signals that are collectively required to underpin a smart, flexible power system (ie, priority #1 from the 2026 progress assessment).
3. Knowledge sharing is a FlexForum focus with Members - and the wider flex community is pretty keen on more regular and more detailed information on flex-y activity.
We can help fill a critical gap by collating and sharing the many and complex practical details of activating flexibility. Please get in touch to share your progress - no matter what stage it is at.
Keep an eye out for updates to the FlexForum Knowledge Hub.
FlexForum Members get together (virtually) on the first Wednesday of each month to hear about flex-y stuff:
Note - these are Member only sessions.
4. Supporting learning-by-doing by assisting coordinated exploration of gnarly questions - to produce an expert consensus on how flex works (or doesn't). Some of the activities we are undertaking in this space now are:
FlexForum advice to the Commerce Commission – achieving better customer outcomes from electricity networks
FlexForum advice to ERGANZ – flexibility options to benefit vulnerable and low-income households
FlexForum advice on enabling flex capable residential end-use products
FlexForum advice on proposals to improve access to electricity product data
FlexForum advice to the Electricity Authority on a MTR proposal
FlexForum advice to the Electricity Authority on a digitalised electricity system.
FlexForum advice to the Electricity Authority on rewarding industrial demand flexibility.
FlexForum advice to the Electricity Authority on enabling a more decentralised electricity system.
FlexForum advice to the Commerce Commission on the Western Bay of Plenty draft decision.
Here is the podcast generated from the FlexForum advice to the Energy Competition Taskforce. It’s not 100% accurate, but is worth a listen.
FlexForum advice to the Energy Competition Taskforce on 3 proposals to empower electricity consumers.
FlexForum advice on the Electricity Authority 2025-26 levy proposal and indicative
workplan.
FlexForum’s submission on the proposal to expand the permitted voltage range for electricity supply.
FlexForum advice to the Commerce Commission on making sure next DPP delivers the most reliable and affordable distribution services possible and makes it easier for households, businesses and communities to electrify and maximise the value of their flexibility.
FlexForum advice to the Electricity Authority on how to get to the future market and power system.
FlexForum’s webinar with Ed Chan examined Australian lessons for advancing New Zealand’s energy flexibility through collaboration, co-ordination and practical initiatives.
FlexForum November 2022 Webinar. Next in the FlexForum speaker series: Playing in the sandpit and experience regulatory learning-by-doing.
FlexForum November 2022 Webinar. Next in the FlexForum speaker series: Playing in the sandpit and experience regulatory learning-by-doing.
Randolph Brazier – ENA UK
Director of Innovation and Electricity Systems
A discussion of ideas and perspectives on how the electricity ecosystem can coordinate and collaborate to enable people.
A discussion to collect ideas about the role flexibility could play in the future to deliver affordable, reliable and zero carbon electricity.
