Launching the sensible grid
In the event you discovered your means right here, you may know all about Agile Octopus, our world-first sensible time of use tariff, passing on actual half-hourly wholesale costs to customers.
Early prospects have already unlocked unimaginable financial savings by making the most of Agile’s filth low cost off-peak charges, however this tariff’s true potential is finest unlocked through integration with sensible residence tech.
This all kicked off at our Agile HackDay, which noticed 22 organisations from Toshiba to Tesla coming collectively to combine their services and products with our open Agile API. The groups paired their tech with our Agile information to unravel challenges from bringing inexpensive electrical heating to social housing at costs rivalling gasoline, to pairing a robotic push button with Amazon’s Alexa to remotely flip a tumble dryer on when vitality charges are lowest, or greenest.
Meet the Agile neighborhood
We’re delighted to be persevering with to work with the next tech-led organisations to maximise the potential of time of use tariffs like ours:
Thanks additionally to Power Methods Catapult, UKPN, coverage innovator Laura Sandys, James Heappey MP and Graeme Cooper, EV Director of Nationwide Grid for his or her ongoing assist of the revitalisation of the vitality business by way of time of use tariffs.
The work we have began with all these phenomenal collaborators has been lauded far and extensive, even making it into Reuters’ assessment of European Good Grid developments:
“Begin ups [Octopus] main the way in which on Good Grid”
We had been a bit bit happy to be the one UK provider talked about within the piece.
As avid campaigners for client rights, we’re no stranger to politics. Agile even made its means into that sphere. James Heappey MP stated:
“Rebel firms similar to Octopus Power are relishing bringing the brand new time-of-use tariffs to the market, giving prospects the advantages of fluctuating wholesale vitality costs.”
The great of us over at Power Institute lined Agile HackDay of their July-August 2018 Power World journal and broke down among the day’s finest creations.
