Mick Wall, the brains behind EnergyStats UK has recently purchased an EV been using the Agile API to automate his charging, and his increasingly smart home! You can read more about his journey here. He also has solar generation and so he can direct his solar power to either his smart car charger or hot water. One of our own smart energy pioneers, GreeningMe, has used a Raspberry Pi and an add-on circuit board with our API to switch his electric car charger on/off and set the best time for his hot water immersion heater to run. Whilst on the subject of EV charging, a popular open source energy monitoring and control system, OpenEnergyMonitor have included support for Agile too for access to the tariff and consumption data within their system and also for their OpenEVSE charger too. It works with our Agile Tariff and works with the Go and Go Faster tariffs too, using the API to pump your EV with electrons when it is cheapest and greenest to do so.
Ohme’s electric vehicle charging cable was probably the first EV charger to use the Agile API. Systems like Sunamp, Boxergy, and Tepeo can be heated using the cheapest half-hours of the day, store that heat, and then release it throughout the day according to the thermostat schedule. If you much prefer a specific target temperature rather than a comfort range, then another solution is heat storage. Karolis has also built an app that by way of the thermostat, learns the ‘heat up’ and ‘cool down’ cycle of the home, continually updating its predictions to heat his home for the lowest possible cost automatically. Instead of setting a target temperature, you set a comfort band and the thermostat will work with our API to warm your home to the upper threshold when prices are low and let the home cool to the lower threshold when prices are high. Karolis from Homely contacted us sometime ago to let us know about their smart thermostat, which is geared towards ground and air-source heating solutions. Smart Electric HeatingĮlectric heating is another area where smart energy cost-tracking can have huge benefits, especially when used with smart ground and air source heat pumps, storage heaters or electric heaters.
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The trial is over, but Powervault systems now have this capability built in. We paired up with Powervault as part of a BEIS funded research project that focussed on using the battery’s brain to heat water more efficiently. Their home energy storage system uses it to fill up when the energy in the grid is cheapest and greenest, and to share energy with your home when the grid’s energy is most demand (and therefore dirtier and more expensive). Powervault was one of the first pieces of tech to use our API. As we’ll see in a moment, it’s super easy to automate your home so you can most of cheap, green energy without ever having to think about it. You can connect up smart hot water systems, electric heating, electric vehicle chargers and anything else that can be told when to use energy – from smart plugs to smart home helpers like Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa. Automating your appliances allows you to make the most of the cheapest, greenest energy without even having to think about it when you’re sleeping, or out and about. This smart tariff relies on a smart meter to track the variable cost of your energy, but Agile’s savings are truly unlocked with other smart home products and app integrations. However, if you want to really reap the benefits of changing your energy consumption, you can save hundreds with a smart tariff like AgileOctopus. Customers receive massive benefits from changing energy consumption and automating appliances to run during the cheapest and greenest times.Īgile or not, you can get involved – if you’re on a fixed, flat rate tariff, using energy off peak is still ‘greener’ because the power coming down the wires will be less carbon intensive. With dynamic pricing based on half-hourly wholesale energy prices, Agile empowers customers with super low (sometimes free, or even negative) prices to change when they use energy to off-peak times when the grid is under less strain – making energy far less carbon-intensive, and much cheaper. We’re doing that with our AgileOctopus Tariff. One way to reduce the need for dirty fossil fuels is to shift our collective consumption patterns and better distribute energy usage throughout the day - to times when energy is greenest (and cheapest). We’re building the groundwork for an all renewable, all-electric future.
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