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.
Yesterday Whitby residents were given the choice of staying with Natural Gas instead of being forced to take part in a Hydrogen home heating & cooking trial as a result of a tremendous amount of pressure by residents on the local council, government, and Cadent. It’s worth witnessing the
Yes: If you buy a new home in a few years time the chances are it will be built to the forthcoming Future Homes Standard 2025 and should be much more energy efficient, all electric and have the latest energy tech included. UK homes are draughty and poorly insulated. We
Security is often top of mind when making hardware - no one wants their data stolen, device used as part of a bot-net or their controls taken over. All reputable hardware manufacturers I speak to take security seriously and ensure their devices and services are meeting security requirements, update firmware
75% of electric car drivers charge their cars at home but that's only possible if you have a driveway or garage. Ubitricity lamp post charger Street charging is becoming much more important as the growth of EV sales accelerates. We're not going to see many examples
At events I've spoken recently at I've started to refer to heat pumps as an energy generator so want to explain why. If it feels wrong to call it a generator it’s because we use them to heat our homes and hot water and it’
This was the third Fully Charged Live I’ve attended and the second I’ve spoken at. I was invited to talk about energy disruption and what’s coming next so chose to focus on storage. Storage is going to become important because our energy generation is becoming more intermittent
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
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
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