The first spark of the company appeared in 2020, when electricity prices on smart tariffs fluctuated wildly as a result of industry shutting down in the first COVID lockdown.

  

The original concept was a battery storage based small scale energy trading system, buying and storing when electricity was cheap, and selling it back to the grid when it was expensive.  

  

As electricity prices stabilised (after the first prototype parts were bought, integrated and installed), the lack of difference between import and export rates no longer made the original concept worthwhile.  

  

A small change to the original concept allowed the components to be used in a different configuration, alongside a different smart tariff (this time designed for Electric Vehicle charging), to significantly reduce household electricity bills.  

  

This new configuration, buying and storing electricity when it’s cheap, and then consuming it only from storage for the rest of the day, was established as a viable business opportunity. 

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We took the existing setup and optimised it for use in this application, in doing so creating a highly cost effective battery pack and the interface hardware to make a smart energy system.