Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has welcomed two groups from the U.S. Congress to visit its portfolio company, Flexitricity.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Flexitricity was one of the first demand-response aggregators to market in Great Britain, and now manages a virtual power plant with a contracted portfolio of 595 megawatts of distributed flexible energy from a wide range of assets owned by customers across the region. The company looks for flexibility in electricity consumption and generation to enhance grid support during periods of system stress and higher power prices. This, in turn, reduces carbon emissions and generates cost savings for energy consumers.
The addition of Flexitricity takes Quinbrook’s total flexible-energy portfolio toward 1 gigawatts.
Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware), co-chair of the Senate Climate Solutions Caucus and who led the senate delegation’s visit, said, “As we work to develop robust, secure infrastructure for renewables i
