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Analysis
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.
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Analysis
Future of Utilities - Expert Voices - Lennart Van Walsum - Global Solar Council
Lennart Van Walsum of the Global Solar Council brings a worldwide view to an industry he calls the "solar coaster," one prone to sharp swings as policy and incentives shift from market to market. He charts the UK's fall from more than 30,000 solar jobs to fewer than 2,000 and its current revival on the back of energy security, arguing that no further renewables build-out is viable without storage alongside.