News, practical guidance and expert insights exploring smarter energy use, battery technology and the transition to a more flexible energy system.
On windy nights, Britain can produce more clean electricity than the network can deliver to the places using it. Understanding why that surplus goes unused is the starting point for using it better.
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Britain sometimes pays wind farms to stop generating because the grid cannot move the power to where it is needed. We explain why, in plain language.
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Read moreA battery is not a power station. It is a way of moving electricity from a moment of surplus to a moment of need, which is exactly what a renewable grid lacks.
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Read moreA resident's view of a smart battery pilot: what is installed, what changes day to day, what data is collected and what safeguards should be written down first.
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Read morePractical changes that genuinely reduce a household electricity bill, ordered by impact rather than by how satisfying they feel to do.
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Read moreHow a Kettle pilot is designed: baselines agreed before installation, a measurement framework in writing, and a commitment to publish the result either way.
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Read moreWhere machine learning genuinely improves battery control — forecasting, scheduling and fault detection — and where the industry oversells what it can do.
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Read moreUpdates for housing providers, energy-sector partners and anyone following Kettle Energy's pilot development. It is not a consumer service sign-up.
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