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Future of Utilities Summit 2026: the industry's take on flexibilityFuture of Utilities Summit 2026: the industry's take on flexibility
Flexibility dominated this year's Future of Utilities Summit, with broad agreement that the technology has stabilised and none at all on where the economic case lies. Across the interview series, Sean Layerle, David Watson and Kate Mulvaney set out three different viewsaccounts of what stands between flexibility and the mainstream: risk appetite, consumer trust, and automation that removes the question entirely.