Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Energy & Climate

WEBSITE

https://www.kiwipowered.com

About the company

Kiwi Power is an energy technology business focused on distributed energy resources and “virtual power plant” capability, best known for demand response and flexibility optimisation. The company started in 2009 and built a track record in Great Britain’s flexibility markets before expanding internationally. ENGIE first invested in Kiwi Power in July 2015, then took a majority stake around late 2018. Kiwi Power is now positioned as part of ENGIE’s wider flexibility and energy solutions activity.

Locations and presence

Kiwi Power is registered in London and is strongly associated with UK flexibility operations. Public company and market materials also describe activity beyond the UK, but the hiring footprint is not consistently visible from a single official careers hub.

Palpable Score

48.8

/ 100

Kiwi Power has some early-career entry points in its history and can offer meaningful learning if a junior lands in the right team. The score is pulled down by limited evidence of recurring 0–3 year hiring, thin pay transparency, and mixed signals on management quality and retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

8.4

/ 20

The company has at least one clearly early-career hiring signal on record through a “Graduate Technology Engineer” interview path, which suggests juniors have been hired in technical roles.
Kiwi Power appears to have employed junior-leaning titles such as Analyst and Operations Analyst, but current recurring 0–3 year openings are not consistently discoverable.
The company does not publish a stable, official vacancies page that makes entry-level access easy to verify year-to-year.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

10.6

/ 20

The company has at least one reported process that responded quickly to applicants and used a remote first-round interview, which reduces friction for early-career candidates.
Kiwi Power has at least one interview account describing structured CV-based questioning plus feedback at the end, which is a strong fairness signal when applied consistently.
The company has mixed interview sentiment overall in public interview feedback, which suggests uneven interviewer quality and experience.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

10.9

/ 20

The company works in a technically complex space (flexibility markets, optimisation, grid services), which can provide steep learning for juniors placed with the right mentors.
Kiwi Power is described in employee feedback as a smaller environment where day-to-day work can expose staff to core commercial and operational decisions, a useful early-career accelerator.
The company does not publish onboarding, mentoring, or progression frameworks, and public feedback includes concerns about management quality that can undermine learning consistency.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

8.7

/ 20

The company does not consistently publish salary ranges on publicly visible job listings, which makes early-career offer comparison harder.
Kiwi Power has employee feedback alleging below-par pay, but the evidence is not specific enough by role level to score this as a clear negative across the board.
The company appears to hire into standard employment roles rather than relying on unpaid or trial labour signals, but benefits and stability signals for juniors are not clearly described.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.2

/ 20

The company has public employee feedback raising retention concerns, including claims of high turnover, which is a direct early-career risk signal.
Kiwi Power has mixed overall employee sentiment on career opportunities, which suggests progression may depend heavily on team and manager rather than a repeatable pathway.
The company does not publish early-career outcomes such as promotion timelines, junior tenure ranges, or internal mobility examples, so outcomes evidence remains thin.