For residents · Founding pilot programme
Your evening, powered by cheaper hours.
If your housing provider takes part in a Kettle pilot, your home could be fitted with a battery managed by the Kettle platform, storing electricity at better moments and using it when you need it. Here is exactly what that would involve, in plain English. Taking part always happens through your housing provider.
- Cost to you
- Intended to be fully funded
- Your supplier
- Stays the same
- To remember
- Nothing

The signature move
One day, one home, nothing you have to remember.
Step through an ordinary day. The routine never changes — only the hour the electricity was bought does.
Night · 3:00am
The battery fills up quietly
While the house is asleep, there is more clean electricity around than the country can use. That is when the battery takes its fill — no noise, nothing to switch on.
- You
- Asleep. Nothing to do.
- The battery
- Charging from the cheaper, cleaner hours.
- Your bill
- Charged by your own supplier, on your own tariff, as usual.
Morning · 7:30am
Kettle on, shower running
The morning rush happens exactly as it always has. Nobody has to wait, delay a wash or think about the time of day.
- You
- Same routine, same appliances.
- The battery
- Covering part of the morning burst.
- Your bill
- Charged by your own supplier, on your own tariff, as usual.
Midday · 1:00pm
A quiet house, a topped-up battery
Demand across the country dips in the middle of the day. If there is room, the battery tops itself back up ready for the evening.
- You
- Out, or getting on with the day.
- The battery
- Topping up for later.
- Your bill
- Charged by your own supplier, on your own tariff, as usual.
Evening · 6:00pm
The hour everyone gets home
Dinner, laundry, the telly, the heating. This is the most expensive hour on the grid — and the hour your home leans on the battery instead.
- You
- Cooking, washing, warming the house.
- The battery
- Doing the heavy lifting through the peak.
- Your bill
- Charged by your own supplier, on your own tariff, as usual.
Late · 11:00pm
Winding down
The peak has passed. Whatever is left in the battery carries the last of the evening, and the cycle starts again overnight.
- You
- Lights off, house settling.
- The battery
- Nearly empty, ready to refill.
- Your bill
- Charged by your own supplier, on your own tariff, as usual.
Illustrative. Kettle is at prototype stage, and what a battery can cover in a real home depends on the property and the household.
What changes
Four things happen. That is the whole list.
No hidden steps, no small print waiting further down the page.
- 1
A battery is fitted, at a time that suits you
A qualified installer fits a battery in or near your home, on a day arranged with you. There is one short, planned interruption while it goes in.
- 2
Some of your evening electricity comes from the battery
In the busiest, most expensive hours, your home draws from the battery instead of straight from the grid. Everything in the house works exactly as before.
- 3
Your supplier, your tariff and your tenancy stay put
Nothing about who you pay or the agreement you hold changes because a battery has been fitted.
- 4
Pilots are intended to be fully funded
Pilots are designed so that residents are not asked for payment, bank details or a deposit. Exact terms are confirmed with each housing provider before a pilot begins. If anyone asks you for money to take part, it is not us.
And what stays exactly as it is
- Your electricity supplier and your tariff
- Your tenancy agreement
- When you cook, wash, heat or charge things
- Who you call in an emergency or a power cut
Being straight with you
We are not promising you a specific saving.
Kettle is at prototype stage. Anyone quoting you a precise figure today would be guessing. What a pilot is for is finding out — honestly, and in real homes — whether shifting when electricity is bought makes a real difference to what households pay.
If you are struggling with energy costs right now, please do not wait for a pilot. See help and support for organisations that can help today.
- What is collected
- How much electricity is used at the property over time, and how the battery is performing.
- What it is used for
- Running the battery and honestly evaluating whether the pilot worked.
- What never happens
- It is not sold, and it is never used to make decisions about your tenancy.
Questions
Resident questions, answered.
Next step
Register your interest.
This is an expression of interest, not an application for a product you can have today. Kettle cannot install directly for individual households: if a pilot goes ahead, it runs through a participating housing provider. Registering is not a contract and does not guarantee that your home is eligible.
- No payment and no bank details, at any stage
- No installation date is implied, and no pilot is confirmed
- Participation would be arranged through your housing provider
Where we are today