We’re born out of a simple observation:

We are obsessively focused on achieving maximum climate impact, and we constantly remind ourselves of the huge scale and urgency of the problem. We don’t want to just conduct research, but to deliver solutions for real-world users and to inspire and enable the wider energy community. Every part of the organisation is designed to maximise climate impact; such as the non-profit legal entity we incorporate, our open and collaborative approach, and our devotion to rapid prototyping.

Our goal is to bring the best of open-science & open-source software development to climate change mitigation. Our work is more accessible than most academic projects and focuses on building products with real-life use cases. We want our solutions to scale easily. Anyone can access, use and contribute to all our code via GitHub; and similarly all data is published openly on Hugging Face where permitted. Through such an approach we want to encourage more collaboration and lower the barrier to entry for researchers and innovators creating solutions for a smart electricity grid.

The challenge in front of us is a multi-faceted one, and we see the need for skills in not just research and the energy system, but also implementation, communication and product design. We have carefully grown a fantastic team with diverse backgrounds and skills from the worlds of energy, design, deep learning, product management and communication. This ensures we can tackle hybrid challenges while simultaneously and continually learning from each other.