Smart Heating · Thermal flexibility · All asset types
Your heating system
is a grid asset.
It just doesn't
know it yet.
A heat pump. A hot water cylinder. A district heating buffer. A commercial HVAC system. These are not just heating assets, they are thermal batteries that can charge and discharge on demand. AmpVerve connects them to the UK grid flexibility market and earns contracted revenue from capacity you are already running.
£600
per year from a domestic heat pump
£280K
per year from a 2MW hospital district heating system
3
UK markets stacked from the same boiler
Zero
change to comfort or temperature schedules
The thermal advantage
Thermal inertia is your
hidden superpower.
Thermal systems have one unique advantage over electrochemical batteries: inertia. A well-insulated building pre-heated to 21.5°C can coast through a 30-minute grid event without anyone noticing. A hot water cylinder charged to 65°C holds that energy for hours.
This makes thermal assets ideal for the kind of sustained demand flexibility the UK grid needs most, and the kind that earns the best contracted rates from DNOs who have been struggling to find it at scale.
AmpVerve is the only UK platform that orchestrates thermal and electrical flexibility assets, EV fleets and smart heating, through the same AI engine, in the same operational window, into the same markets. One platform. One contract. One monthly settlement.
Only AmpVerve does both
No other UK flexibility platform orchestrates both smart heating and EV fleet assets simultaneously from the same AI engine, into the same grid markets, under a single aggregator registration. This is protected by our two UK patent applications.
How thermal pre-charging works
00:00–06:00 · Overnight cheap window
Pre-charging
Heat pump runs at full output. Thermal buffer or cylinder charges to maximum. Energy cost: near zero.
07:00–09:00 · Morning peak
Holding
Minimal electrical draw. Stored heat serves building demand. Grid earns £180–200/MWh from your flexibility.
09:00–17:00 · Daytime
Optimising
AmpVerve continuously optimises between heating need and market price. Revenue earns throughout.
🌡️ Building stays at target temperature throughout. Occupants notice nothing.
Compatible assets
Every thermal asset.
Residential to industrial.
AmpVerve supports every type of smart heating and hot water asset, from a home heat pump to a hospital district heating network with a 5MW buffer tank.
Residential
Domestic heat pumps & hot water
Home heat pumps with thermal buffer tanks, smart hot water cylinders and hybrid heat pump/solar systems. AmpVerve pre-heats during cheap overnight windows and earns DNO flexibility and ancillary service revenue automatically.
Air source heat pumps (ASHP)
Ground source heat pumps (GSHP)
Smart hot water cylinders and immersion heaters
Electric storage heaters with smart controllers
Heat pump / solar thermal hybrid systems
£300–£600
per year from a domestic heat pump in SSEN or UKPN territory
Small commercial
Commercial hot water & small HVAC
Hotels, care homes, schools, small offices and retail units with commercial hot water cylinders, calorifiers or small HVAC systems. AmpVerve earns from the same thermal flexibility that residential assets access, at commercial scale.
Commercial calorifiers and hot water cylinders
Hotel and hospitality HVAC systems
Care home and school heating plants
Retail and leisure building HVAC
Commercial air source heat pumps (50–200kW)
£4K–£25K
per year from a 100–500kW commercial heating system
Large commercial & NHS
Large buildings, hospitals & campuses
NHS trusts, universities, large office campuses and industrial facilities with significant HVAC loads and large thermal buffer capacity. The combination of high load and operational flexibility makes large commercial heating systems among the most valuable flexibility assets in the UK.
Hospital and healthcare campus HVAC
University building management systems
Large office building air handling units
Industrial process heating with demand flexibility
Multi-building estate heating networks
£25K–£140K
per year from a 500kW–2MW large commercial heating system
District heating
District heating networks & heat networks
Local authority district heating networks, development heat networks and community energy schemes with centralised heat generation and large buffer storage. At scale, district heating is one of the most valuable flexibility assets available to any UK organisation, with revenue potential that dwarfs most EV fleet deployments.
LA and council district heating networks
New development heat networks (PAS 2030)
Combined heat and power (CHP) with buffer
Heat network with large thermal storage
Industrial waste heat recovery systems
£140K–£700K
per year from a 2–5MW district heating network, DNO flexibility alone
Revenue by asset size
What heating assets
earn in the UK right now.
Based on current SSEN, UKPN and NGED contracted flexibility rates combined with wholesale market spreads and Balancing Mechanism premium revenue.
Heating asset
DNO flexibility
Wholesale + BM
Combined annual
Domestic heat pump (10kW)
£200–£360
£100–£240
£300–£600
Small commercial HVAC (100kW)
£2,500–£5,000
£1,500–£3,000
£4K–£8K
Commercial heating plant (500kW)
£15,000–£30,000
£10,000–£20,000
£25K–£50K
Hospital district heating (2MW)
£80,000–£140,000
£60,000–£100,000
£140K–£280K
Large industrial heating (5MW)
£200,000–£350,000
£150,000–£250,000
£350K–£700K
Estimates based on combined SSEN, UKPN and NGED contracted flexibility rates, N2EX/EPEX wholesale spreads and Balancing Mechanism premium. Actual earnings vary by location, asset type and availability window.
How it works
Pre-charge. Hold. Earn.
Repeat every day.
01 / 03
Pre-charge during cheap periods
AmpVerve runs your heat pump, immersion heater or district heating system at maximum output during overnight low-price periods, storing heat in cylinders, thermal buffers or building fabric. Your energy costs fall because you are buying at the cheapest rates of the day. The stored heat is free capacity for tomorrow.
02 / 03
Hold during peak periods
During high-price or high-demand periods, AmpVerve reduces the heating system's electrical draw. The stored thermal energy continues serving your building's heating and hot water needs. Nobody notices. Comfort is unaffected. AmpVerve's Safety Agent verifies this before any dispatch instruction is issued.
03 / 03
Earn from the grid
This demand shift is equivalent in grid terms to discharging a battery. It accesses the same DNO flexibility tender revenue, the same Balancing Mechanism premium and the same wholesale price spread, contracted, verified and settled monthly. Your boiler earns from the same market as a grid-scale BESS.
Compatible hardware
Works with the equipment
already in your building.
Residential heat pumps
·Vaillant arotherm+
·Worcester Bosch Compress
·Samsung EHS / Gen6
·Mitsubishi Ecodan
·Daikin Altherma
·Octopus Cosy Cab
·Viessmann Vitocal
BMS platforms
·Trend Control Systems
·Schneider EcoStruxure
·Siemens Desigo CC
·Johnson Controls Metasys
·Honeywell Enterprise BMS
·Modbus / BACnet compatible
·Open REST API integration
Hot water & storage
·Mixergy smart cylinders
·Grant Aerona smart cylinder
·Sunamp heat batteries
·Commercial calorifiers (Enerpack, Andrews)
·Smart immersion controllers
·Electric storage heaters (Dimplex)
·District heating buffer tanks (all makes)
Heating revenue estimate
Find out what your
heating assets could earn.
What we deliver
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Market eligibility assessment for your specific asset type and DNO territory
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Revenue model across DNO flexibility, wholesale price shifting and Balancing Mechanism
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Seasonal revenue breakdown showing winter vs. summer earnings differential
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Comparison with DNO tender windows currently open in your area
48-hour turnaround
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Your heating is
ready to earn.
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