Autonomous energy assistant to facilitate domestic DSR in new Living Lab trial

20 Jan 2021, 10:49

An autonomous digital energy assistant is to be trialed by Edinburgh-based Amp X in 50 Living Lab homes run by the Energy Systems Catapult.

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Current± Disruptors: Equiwatt’s Johnson Fernandes and Geoff Phillips on gamification and flexibility

20 Nov 2020, 17:16

Current± caught up with Equiwatt founder and CEO Johnson Fernandes and CMO Geoff Phillips to talk about how the app works and what’s next for the startup.

Image: Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce.

EV Energy Taskforce can't 'rest on its laurels' as key actions for electrification identified

23 Oct 2020, 11:41

The Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce has reconvened with an aim of turning its proposals for facilitating the transition to EVs into action.

The Energy Systems Catapult’s Data Best Practice guidance provides key 12 principles.

Ofgem to introduce new licence condition for Presumed Open data

12 Jun 2020, 11:48

Ofgem is set to introduce a new licence condition, based on the Energy Systems Catapult’s Data Best Practice guidance.

Less than 20% of people said that they’d consider switching to low carbon heating.

Innovation needed to drive down cost of low carbon heating transition

20 Apr 2020, 10:30

Innovation is needed to make the switch to low carbon heating affordable, and to ensure that it delivers comparable or superior performance to natural gas boilers.

Anastasios Oulis Rousis, CEO and co-founder (right). Image: Smart Power Networks.

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Current± Disruptors: Smart Power Networks' Anastasios Oulis Rousis on creating a smart local energy network

8 Apr 2020, 13:09

Current± spoke to Smart Power Network's co-founder and CEO, Anastasios Oulis Rousis, about securing government support and enabling a digitalised energy system.

Living Lab 2.0 is a “first-of-a-kind” real-world test environment for businesses in the home energy market.