Flexibility Plan 2.0 provides a checklist of tasks and actions to make flexibility easy and routine for households, businesses and communities.
The Plan provides a reference point for coordinating a complex and inter-related set of tasks and actions, and is intended to make delivering a smart, flexible and consumer-centric power system easier, faster and more affordable by supporting more effective coordination and prioritisation of scarce resources through identifying tasks, dependencies, gaps in effort and opportunities.
This is an upgrade to version 1.0 published in August 2022 with a more explicit focus on the actions and choices people have when considering and saying yes to flex and reflecting the flexibility lessons and experiences gained since 2022.
You can find the Flexibility Plan 1.0 here.
Delivering the Plan will underpin the evolution to a smart, flexible, and consumer-centric power system which supports affordable and reliable operation of the electricity market and power system through accelerated electrification by households and businesses as part of the transition in Aotearoa New Zealand to a zero emissions economy.
FlexForum is committed to regularly reviewing progress with delivering the Plan and updating the Plan as learning identifies new tasks and tasks are ticked off. This iterative approach allows course correction and adaptation to changing circumstances.
Flexibility Plan 2.0 lists 41 steps, each involving a task which is intended to deliver an output – a capability, process or practice – to make it easier and more routine for people to undertake their flexibility journey.
Each step identifies a responsible party which is considered most able to progress the step based on its interests and role. FlexForum is ambivalent about who delivers steps and has no authority – other than reporting on progress – to get anyone to deliver a step.
FlexForum will check in on progress with the Plan with the responsible parties and with the wider ecosystem. FlexForum will regularly check in with the responsible party about progress with the step and task as part of the progress monitoring and assessment.
Monitoring progress is intended to highlight the outcomes of learning-by-doing, assist course corrections, identify tasks which can be checked off, adjusted or added, and highlight gaps in effort and steps which deserve more priority.
