Ohme, the UK’s largest home EV charging company, has rewarded its EV drivers more than £750,000 during the course of the Crowdflex energy trialss.
UK drivers paid £750,000 to charge electric cars at home in trial
Drivers across the UK are being paid £750,000 to charge electric cars at home in a landmark energy trial. Ohme, the UK’s largest home EV charging company, has rewarded its EV drivers more than £750,000 during the course of the Crowdflex energy trialss.
Crowdflex was the UK’s largest home energy flexibility trial running from May 2024 until September 2025 and was a study into how households can help increase flexibility in the electricity grid by shifting when energy is used.
“The Crowdflex energy trials have shown that companies like Ohme can play a crucial role in domestic flexibility by engaging customers and helping to save consumers more than £470 million per year in energy costs by 2036,” said David Watson, Ohme CEO.
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“We’ve demonstrated that our customers will shift their plug-in behaviour when needed, delivering significant flexible capacity through dynamic automated charging.
“But to move this knowledge on from trial to reality, we need more coordination across the Government and energy industry to give greater value and more rewards to our customers for the full system value that their home EV chargers can offer.”
Marzia Zafar, Deputy Director of Governance for Data and Digitalisation, Ofgem: “Crowdflex is more than a trial, it’s a blueprint for the future of domestic flexibility.
“By developing real life data driven models that demonstrate how households can reliably support the grid, were laying the foundation for a smarter, more decentralised energy system.
“This work is critical to delivering the ambitions of Clean Power by 2030 and ensuring that consumers are at the heart of the energy transition.”
Crowdflex was awarded funding through Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund, which is managed in partnership with Innovate UK.
The project is being delivered by a consortium of partners: Ohme, OVO, Centre for Net Zero, ERM, AWS, National Grid Electricity Distribution and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks.
