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Centre for Net Zero
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🐙 Energy research institute, founded by the Octopus Energy Group. Operating autonomously.

⚡️ Advancing tech-enabled energy systems that benefit humanity.

📊 Check out our research, papers & data: www.centrefornetzero.org
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🚨 We’ve updated our open access generative AI model, Faraday, which outputs synthetic smart meter data

❓ This latest version has locational awareness AND is trained on even more of the latest @octopus.energy customer data

🚪 Want access? You can sign up directly - check out details & 🔗 in 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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This recent working paper by @rmetcalfe.bsky.social e.a. for @centrefornetzero.bsky.social shows how effective automated EV smart charging is:

"42% reduction in household electricity demand during peak hours, with 100% of this demand shifted to low-cost, low-emission off-peak periods."
Figure shows electricity consumption throughout the day for a baseline and with an EV tariff. During the off-peak period in the middle of the night, consumption is much higher with the EV tariff, while during the peak in the early evening it is much lower.
October 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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💡 Can the UK leverage renewables to power data centres at speed and low cost?

🆕 Our latest analysis compares the cost & speed to power data centres in the UK by leveraging renewable microgrids versus nuclear small modular reactors

Check it out 🔗 + 🧵 microgridai.centrefornetzero.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🚗 Can AI make EV charging cheaper and greener?

CNZ ran the world’s largest AI-managed EV charging trial with 13,000 UK households. Check out the results 👇

Summary & working paper 🔗 www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/ai-in...
September 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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⚡ Britain's high electricity costs aren't a net zero problem — they're a legacy of outdated markets designed for fossil fuels

🖊️ CNZ’s Chief Economist @rmetcalfe.bsky.social wrote to @economist.com about the root causes of high UK energy prices

👇 Check out this week’s print edition or see link in 🧵
September 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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📢 Open data community OpenSynth is expanding beyond demand data. Our first grid topology dataset, RTE7000, is now live!

It contains a series of snapshots in node-breaker topology of the 7k nodes across the 🇫🇷 transmission grid

👇 Learn more via our blog: www.centrefornetzero.org/news/opensyn...
August 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A thread, a working paper, a chart, all from real user data!

(𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥! 𝘵𝘢𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 #𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 + #𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 🙌)
centrefornetzero.bsky.social Centre for Net Zero @centrefornetzero.bsky.social · Jul 29
🤔 What happens when homes switch to heat pumps?

🌡️ Check out NEW updates to our HP paper - ft additional temperature analysis: www.centrefornetzero.org/news/what-ha...

🔗 Working paper: www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/decar...

@rmetcalfe.bsky.social @lbernard.bsky.social @the-scheining.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🏘️ CNZ is leading the trial design for CrowdFlex, the largest multi-year consumer flex trial in the UK. It tests the impact of incentives on demand response, working with @neso-energy.bsky.social, Ovo, Ohme, @awscloud.bsky.social & others

🆕 findings from the Winter trials are out today - see 🧵
CrowdFlex publishes latest results and insights from large-scale domestic flexibility trials | National Energy System Operator
CrowdFlex, is a NESO led innovation project, funded by Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), w
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August 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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How well do heat pumps perform in homes under different temperatures—& what does that mean for households and the grid?

Our updated paper @centrefornetzero.bsky.social reveals that heat pump efficiency varies sharply with outdoor temperature.

www.centrefornetzero.org/news/what-ha...
Impact of switching to heat pumps and smart tariff on demand
Our team highlight some recent revisions we've made to our heat pump working paper, which investigates impacts on energy demand using customer data, at scale.
www.centrefornetzero.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🤔 What happens when homes switch to heat pumps?

🌡️ Check out NEW updates to our HP paper - ft additional temperature analysis: www.centrefornetzero.org/news/what-ha...

🔗 Working paper: www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/decar...

@rmetcalfe.bsky.social @lbernard.bsky.social @the-scheining.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🚗 Everyone deserves access to affordable EV charging – not just those with a driveway

📣 Our CEO Lucy Yu is in @reuters.com this week promoting our trial with @octopus.energy Electroverse which proved that EV drivers respond to dynamic pricing outside their own home 👇
Everyone needs to be able to plug into the electric vehicle revolution
Electric vehicle charging has a pricing problem. While at-home charging can cost as little as 7p per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the UK, drivers reliant on the public charging network face rates up to 10 times higher, a factor that could undermine the UK’s ambition for 100% of new vehicles for sale to be electric or hybrid by 2035.
www.reuters.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🥵 As @metoffice.gov.uk has highlighted today, extreme weather is a new UK norm. But how to harness the corresponding abundance in ☀️ & get the benefits to consumers that need it most?

Check out results from CNZ's research trials in @businessgreen.bsky.social👇 www.businessgreen.com/opinion/4516...
July 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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⚡ 'Demand-side approaches to managing energy have been disregarded in the past, but no longer.'

🗞️ Check out @economist.com latest article on the power of VPPs & distributed energy resources, featuring CNZ's modelling that quantifies the whole-system benefits of domestic flexibility in GB 👇
How managing energy demand got glamorous
Technology and power come together
www.economist.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🚗 Can dynamic pricing slash the cost of public EV charging?

🔍 Last month we released the results of the world's first national study evaluating the impact of a demand flexibility approach to public EV charging - covered by @politico.com @eenews.bsky.social 👇

See 🧵 for more info
June 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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EV drivers are highly responsive to public charging price signals. A 40% price reduction led to a 117% increase in charging demand!

Great findings from a @centrefornetzero.bsky.social field experiment with Octopus Electroverse:
EV drivers are highly responsive to public charging price signals. A 40% price reduction led to a 117% increase in charging demand.
It's great to see the results of a field trial of dynamic pricing for public charging! Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group) worked with charging app provider (or MSP in e-mobility jargon) Octopu...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NEW RESEARCH: Dynamic pricing at public chargers works—drivers shift charging to off-peak times.

Great to see data @centrefornetzero.bsky.social @octopus.energy backing what we at @regassistproj.bsky.social long supported.

www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/the-i...
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🚨🚗⚡️How responsive are EV drivers to public charging prices?

I'm excited to share our new @centrefornetzero.bsky.social working paper:

“The Impact of Dynamic Prices on Electric Vehicle Public Charging Demand: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Field Experiment”
May 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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🚗 Are EV drivers responsive to public charging prices?

🆕 Check out our latest paper: 'The Impact of Dynamic Prices on Electric Vehicle Public Charging Demand: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Field Experiment'

Find out more 🔗 www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/the-i...

Details in 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🔨 In the UK, all eyes are on the speed of energy infrastructure roll out. We need to rapidly build more renewables to meet the #CP2030 target

💡 Our CEO Lucy Yu argues for a similar strategic approach to develop digital infrastructure & unlock clean energy systems in @businessgreen.bsky.social 👇
Infrastructure in the digital age: A call for nationally critical datasets
The UK urgently needs a data-driven modern conception of infrastructure rollout that is fit for our rapidly changing digital age, writes Centre for Net Zero CEO Lucy Yu
www.businessgreen.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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rmetcalfe.bsky.social
Worth listening to this excellent podcast on decarbonization with Lucy and David, including some of the research coming down the pipe at @centrefornetzero.bsky.social.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Apr 18
Today on Volts: how is decarbonization going over in the UK? I talk with Lucy Yu of the Centre for Net Zero about the country's success in getting rid of coal, the challenge posed by its leaky, aging building stock, and the recent political tensions over the net-zero goal.
How is decarbonization going in the UK?
The UK's journey from coal powerhouse to offshore wind leader and the challenges ahead
www.volts.wtf
April 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🚀 NEW policy paper: Synthetic Data for Smart Energy: Applications for AI-Generated Smart Meter Data

📣 Our latest paper details 5 key applications, from green finance to network modelling, featuring insights from UK, US & Europe

Check it out 🔗 www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/synth...

Summary in 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
centrefornetzero.bsky.social
❓ How's decarbonisation going in the UK?

⚡ Thanks to @volts.wtf for inviting our CEO & CP2030 Commissioner Lucy Yu to chat about the journey so far!

You can listen to the episode now 👇
www.volts.wtf/p/how-is-dec...
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Apr 18
Today on Volts: how is decarbonization going over in the UK? I talk with Lucy Yu of the Centre for Net Zero about the country's success in getting rid of coal, the challenge posed by its leaky, aging building stock, and the recent political tensions over the net-zero goal.
How is decarbonization going in the UK?
The UK's journey from coal powerhouse to offshore wind leader and the challenges ahead
www.volts.wtf
April 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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❓ How is #GenAI being used to create high value synthetic energy datasets at speed and scale? And how can we use this to decarbonise global energy systems?

📅 Join us online next week to find out, on 24th April at 16.00 BST

🎟️ Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decarbonis...

See 🧵 for details
April 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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UPCOMING EUROPE EVENT: #Research shaping #ClimatePolicy 🌍

Join us 14 May, 5:30–7pm CEST in Bonn 🇩🇪 for a roundtable on using evidence to shape climate policy—w/ speakers from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, @dgap.org, & @centrefornetzero.bsky.social.

Register 👉 conference.iza.org/conference_f...
April 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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❓ How can we use synthetic smart meter data to accelerate global energy transitions? What do emerging, real-world applications look like?

📣 Join us for the online launch of our new policy paper on 24 April at 16.00 BST to find out!

🎟️ Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decarbonis...
April 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM