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Your assets, earning

Earn money from the assets you already own

Two routes to revenue: carbon allowances bought and surrendered online, and the flexible equipment already on your site earning in the energy markets. We work for you, not the suppliers.

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Two routes to revenue.

One is a market you trade in because you are obliged to, or because you have chosen to retire allowances. The other is equipment you have already bought, sitting idle between production runs. Both pay.

Carbon Allowances

UKAs and EUAs at live market pricing. The whole journey runs digitally from quote to surrender, which keeps execution costs lean.

  • One allowance covers one tonne of CO2 equivalent.
  • Four steps, no phone calls required. Your quote is priced against the live UKA or EUA market, the same numbers we publish on our live price pages.
  • The trade routes through regulated broker counterparties, and the trade ticket shows the allowance price and the broker fee side by side.
  • UK ETS surrender falls due on 30 April each year; the EU scheme moved its deadline to 30 September from 2024. We track both and alert you before each one.
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Virtual Power Plant

The batteries, EV chargers, heating, cooling and machines you already own can earn when the grid is tight. We connect them, run them in the energy markets, and pay you.

  • Approved with every UK distribution network operator (DNO) and NESO. Purely Energy is the registered Capacity Provider, so there is no aggregator sitting on top of us.
  • Up to four revenue streams stacked on the same megawatt hour: the Capacity Market, NESO's Demand Flexibility Service, local flexibility tenders run by DNOs, and bill-side schemes.
  • Half-hourly metering is required; from there, assets join from 10 kW.
  • Dispatch hardware comes under our capex, so there is no upfront cost, and we earn from a share of the revenue we create.
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What the flexibility side looks like

Dispatch runs from our 24/7 control room, where you set what is allowed to flex and production always comes first. Read what a virtual power plant is before you decide.

revenue streams on the same MWh
4revenue streams on the same MWh
more than one scheme alone
3 to 6xmore than one scheme alone
minimum size per asset
10 kWminimum size per asset
to first revenue (DFS and DNO Flex)
4 to 12 wksto first revenue (DFS and DNO Flex)

Programme figures and the example earnings below are as published for recent auctions and events. Your assessment shows the numbers for your sites.

Who each route is for

Carbon allowances

Installations regulated under the UK ETS or EU ETS, which must surrender allowances equal to their verified emissions each compliance year. Also businesses choosing to retire UKAs or EUAs voluntarily as part of a Scope 1 net zero claim. If you are not sure which scheme applies to you, start with the UK and EU schemes compared and what a carbon allowance actually is.

Flexible assets

UK industrial and commercial sites with half-hourly metering and controllable load that can shift by minutes, or shed for a short window, without hurting operations. Assets join from 10 kW. Three examples of what that looks like in practice:

  • A 500 kW cold-storage warehouse earning around £15,000 a year from the Capacity Market, DFS and local flexibility.
  • An EII-eligible plastics manufacturer saving £150,000 to £225,000 a year through EII and NCC, with the Capacity Market layered on top as a separate revenue line.
  • A hospital trust earning £24,000 a year on its 2 MW combined heat and power (CHP) engine, with theatre load excluded from flexing entirely.

If your flexibility sits in a battery, read battery storage revenue. If it sits in process load, read demand side response.

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Find out what your assets are worth.

Send us your sites and your scheme, and we will come back with the numbers in writing. No obligation, and dispatch hardware is supplied under our capex, so there is no upfront cost to you.

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