ElectronConnect

The market platform for scaling DER flexibility

ElectronConnect enables utilities and system operators to design, launch, and scale local flexibility markets and programs – coordinating distributed energy resources where they deliver the most value.

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The challenge ElectronConnect addresses

As variable loads and generation increase across distribution networks, congestion and curtailment are rising – affecting both the affordability and reliability of the grid.

At the same time, utilities are expected to coordinate growing volumes of distributed energy resources (DERs) through programs, pilots, and markets that often run on disconnected systems, with inconsistent data and limited visibility of where flexibility is actually needed.

ElectronConnect enables the live coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) through local flexibility

Why ElectronConnect

ElectronConnect helps utilities coordinate flexibility, align actions with network needs, and manage DER participation with clarity and confidence.
  • Built for real distribution needs: Configurable to run multiple concurrent market products, at different time scales – from long-term to day ahead and real time.
  • Neutral and interoperable: Works alongside DERMS, VPPs, trading platforms, and utility programs through standardised, API-first data exchange.
  • User-friendly for both utilities and providers: Simplifies asset onboarding, bidding, dispatch, and settlement, reducing operational overheads for all participants.
  • Scalable and field-proven: Trusted by more than half of UK DSOs, coordinating live markets across multiple regions.

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How ElectronConnect works

ElectronConnect’s market software provides an end-to-end flexibility journey.

From resource onboarding to settlement, the flexibility market platform connects system and network operators with distributed energy resources (DERs) to help you manage the use and generation of electricity at the right time, in the right place – and for the right price.

Onboard DERs and qualify for markets

The market platform onboards DERs and qualifies them for markets based on the configurable qualification criteria defined by market operators (resource location, part of the network, technology type, response times etc).

Match and clear trades for configured markets

The flexibility market software matches and clears trades, and enables rules-based multi-market coordination. Customers can choose from pre-defined market templates or configure their own market. The technology supports a variety of flexibility trading protocols, one-to-many and many-to-many trading arrangements. It also supports different payment structures (availability and utilisation, utilisation-only) and clearing methods (pay-as-clear, pay-as-bid).

ElectronConnect can integrate with network management systems and power flow analysis tools to automate flexibility procurement, veto resources using the signals from the network management systems, analyse network impact, and more.

Dispatch ahead of time or in real-time

ElectronConnect schedules DERs to dispatch ahead of time or sends dispatch instructions in real-time.

Watch Nick Huntbatch, Chief Product Officer, deep dive into what ElectronConnect is and how you can use it to deliver flexibility at scale.

Multiple markets across multiple time frames and products, supported with a full ecosystem of extra services such as baselining and performance insights. This is how the flexibility market platform ties it all together.

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How ElectronConnect meets system needs

ElectronConnect enables operators to configure and operate different market types to meet different system challenges – from constraint management to demand response – using the same modular platform.

Demand response

Demand response markets help ensure grid stability and reliability through load shifting and shaping services provided by Industrial and Commercial (I&C) or residential end-consumers. Demand response is typically procured ahead of time by the system operator from multiple resources.

ElectronConnect offers various demand response market configurations to cater for demand response actions. This includes integrations with third parties, such as meter data platforms and consumer-facing apps to communicate upcoming demand response events.

Local constraints

Local constraint markets provide a pre-fault reinforcement deferral to system and network operators, and support for network restoration post-fault.

ElectronConnect offers a wide range of local constraint market configurations. This includes long-term contracts and ahead scheduling for pre-fault markets, as well as near real-time resource dispatching for post-fault markets. You can also include optional coordination between national and local system operators, to suit your requirements.

Local curtailment

Local curtailment markets enable dynamic, near real-time trading of curtailment between Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) – both generation and demand – allowing DERs subject to curtailment to optimise their positions in curtailment queues.

ElectronConnect facilitates trading between many DERs simultaneously and supports several different many-to-many matching algorithms. The trading is directly informed by real-time network management signals that are integrated with the platform.

Part of the Electron suite

ElectronConnect provides the coordination and market activation layer of value orchestration.

Paired with ElectronInsight – which delivers grid-edge visibility and intelligence – it enables utilities to act on network insights, verify flexibility performance, and accelerate data-driven grid operations.

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Frequently asked questions

ElectronConnect enables utilities and system operators to launch, operate, and scale flexibility markets – managing onboarding, bidding, dispatch, and settlement in a single workflow.

ElectronConnect allows the configuration of multiple markets and trading arrangements.

We currently run all five of the standardised flexibility products in the UK and can configure additional arrangements – as with our BiTraDER innovation project, for example.

There is no limit to how many different markets you can run at the same time on the market platform.

ElectronConnect is the coordination layer of value orchestration. It converts network insights from Rhythmos into procurement and dispatch actions, and feeds market performance data back into planning, creating a live feedback loop across the system.

Operators can configure a range of market models, including demand response, congestion management, and local constraint management.

No. ElectronConnect integrates with existing systems through open APIs, providing a unifying layer that connects and coordinates them rather than competing with them.

The platform is configurable, extensible – and easy to use. It is based on proven, scalable underlying technologies – inclusive by design – and supports market operator and provider interactions through UI, flat-file uploads or programmatically via API.

  • For network utilities and system operators: We can integrate with your existing network systems, such as Active Network Management or DERMs. This allows market-based flexibility procurement to be informed by network needs directly.
  • For flexibility service providers: We can integrate with aggregator and optimiser platforms, allowing those organisations to indicate flexible capacity and availability programatically.

By aligning flexibility markets with real-time grid conditions, ElectronConnect helps utilities meet demand more efficiently, reducing reinforcement costs, accelerating flexibility uptake, and improving system resilience.

System operators and flexibility service providers logged into ElectronConnect can see performance insights for past flexibility procurement rounds as well as information about all the opportunities available, all in one place.

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