Phil is the Future Technologies Evangelist at Octopus Energy. Phil is a frequent speaker, runs the Octopus user forum, and leads the global R&D team inventing, exploring, testing and launching new energy innovations.
We moved house a year ago (April 2021) and one of the things I was keen to do was move off our gas combi boiler to an Air Source Heat Pump which we did early January 2022. Ours is an EcoForest EcoAir 3-12 Pro providing heat for a 1960s detached
1. Transitioning to a net zero energy system: smart systems and flexibility plan 2021 2. Digitalising our energy system for net zero: strategy and action plan 3. Facilitating the deployment of large-scale and long-duration electricity storage: call for evidence 4. Role of vehicle-to-X energy technologies in a net zero energy
Our experience of charging an EV isn't perfect but it's probably typical and that's something we're working hard to improve with new offers such as Intelligent Octopus. I'm on one of our Go Faster tariffs so I charge the car
I started nCube in 2013 as a smart home platform. From the beginning the focus was always on energy management based around a smart home hub. As I wrote on the original About Us page (still available on the Wayback Machine*) I'd previously hacked together a method to