Water and sewerage company Severn Trent has partnered with Open Energi to unlock demand flexibility from its equipment. The company, which provides water to 4.5 million households and businesses across the Midlands and Wales, aims to provide over 20MW of flexible capacity from across its network by 2020.

Open Energi’s dynamic-demand technology is already operating at two of Severn Trent’s sewage-treatment works, in Redditch and Leicester. Together these two sites are providing National Grid with about 1.2MW of real-time flexibility.