Piclo

Piclo operates an independent marketplace for energy flexibility that connects flexibility sellers - such as electric vehicle and battery operators and aggregators of distributed energy resources - with flexibility buyers including utilities, transmission and distribution system operators, and energy retailers. Its platform, Piclo Flex, provides end-to-end support for procuring, dispatching, operating and settling local flexibility services, using competitive auctions in which flexibility providers bid for contracts. The stated mission is to accelerate decarbonization of electricity grids by giving sellers access to commercial opportunities across multiple markets and geographies while giving buyers access to a vetted pool of flexibility providers.

Alongside the marketplace, Piclo publishes a Data Hub containing publicly available flexibility market datasets, including UK and Portugal competition and bid reports, exchange listings, Local Constraint Market (LCM) results, and GeoJSON constraint-zone boundary files for network operators such as NESO, Northern Powergrid, UK Power Networks, SP Energy Networks and Electricity North West.