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Spärck at the museum
The Spärck scholarship launched a few weeks ago at the Manchester science & industry museum. DSIT are sponsoring 80 MSc students studying AI over the next year and part of the two-day launch was a Hackathon for the students to work with businesses supporting the scholarship on a tailored
Useful tools
If you've seen me at events this summer I've quite often referred to grid frequency, grid balancing and system inertia. Keeping the grid at around 50Hz is essential so there's a lot of forecasting and planning months, weeks, days in advance and finally in-
The students prototyped a smart thermostat in 30 minutes
During the first two weeks of July I had the pleasure of running a couple of mini hackathons with GCSE students in our Slough research centre and Manchester office. I started with a 30 minute primer of the world of smart energy tech - everything from how the grid is evolving
Prime Outgoing
At the Energy Tech Summit yesterday I published a quick video about our new export tariff, Prime Outgoing. Octopus Prime - almost out now. If you’ve got a decent size battery it probably makes more sense to use our peak time export tariff. And it’s great for the grid