💼 New year, new job? 📢 CNZ is hiring for a new Director of External Affairs to work with our CEO Lucy Yu and the rest of our talented team 👀 We're looking for highly motivated candidates with strong energy, comms & policy creds 📅 Deadline - 12pm, 18th Jan 2026 jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/f...

NEW ANALYSIS: Electric vehicles are entering the mid-transition space starting to replace ICE vehicles. History shows that shifts like this can happen faster than expected: in the early 20th-century US, horses and mules virtually vanished from roads in under 30 years. cdn.sanity.io/files/lrxd4j...

Excellent recommendations to make public charging cheaper (for users and the overall system):

🚗 NEW report from CNZ + @rockymtninst.bsky.social + @ecioxford.bsky.social answers a critical Q for policy-makers: how can we scale the EV S-Curve - and tip into the phase of mass adoption❓ 🔗 centrefornetzero.org/papers/doc/s... Details in 🧵 Thanks to @carbonbrief.org for featuring!

📢 DESNZ & DSIT’s Lord Vallance have launched an Independent Review of AI for Electricity Networks, led by @centrefornetzero.bsky.social CEO, Lucy Yu. The review will explore opportunities, risks and enablers for deploying AI across the grid.

💬 CNZ features in @theguardian.com on the implications of the UK #Budget for the #WarmHomesPlan: “Cutting levies on electricity is welcome and overdue, but it can’t come at the cost of cutting the very investments in homes that help make bills fall for good – especially for those in fuel poverty”

🌍 Do EV drivers charge in the same way across the world? At @centrefornetzero.bsky.social, we analysed anonymised data from @octopus.energy ’s Intelligent Octopus tariff in the 🇬🇧UK, 🇪🇸Spain, 🇩🇪Germany & 🇺🇸Texas to find out. 🔗 Explore the analysis & 10 charts: www.centrefornetzero.org/news/watts-t...

🚨 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 🧵

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."

💡 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

🚗 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...

⚡ 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 🧵

📢 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...

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 🙌)

🏘️ 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 🧵

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...

🤔 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

🚗 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 👇

🥵 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...

⚡ '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 👇

🚗 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

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:

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...

🚨🚗⚡️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”

🚗 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 🧵

🔨 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 👇

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.

🚀 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 🧵

❓ 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...

❓ 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

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...

❓ 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...

🚨 OpenSynth update alert! Check out release v0.0.6 on github & PyPI 🔗 github.com/OpenSynth-en... 🔗 pypi.org/project/open... 👐 OpenSynth is an open data community founded by CNZ, sourced under @linuxfoundation.org's LF Energy, democratising access to synthetic energy demand data What's new? See 🧵

On Monday, I'm talking with Lucy Yu, who runs the Centre for Net Zero, about decarbonization in the UK -- its history, current dynamics, and future prospects. Got any questions about Merry Olde England? Hit me.

Flexibility isn’t optional - it’s essential for a future powered by clean energy ⚡ CNZ is in @thetimes.com promoting the importance of demand flex as we decarbonise: "This is an opportunity to pay people, rather than power plants, to support the energy system" 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/a5d0...

#EnergyUnplugged is back with episode 234! This week features Centre for Net Zero's CEO, Lucy Yu, and Jon Norman, President of Hydrostor. They join @auroraer.bsky.social's Head of Research for Western Europe & India, Marc Hedin to discuss clean power grids 🍃💡 🎧 Check it out 👉 auroraer.com/podcast/

🏠 What happens when you install solar PV and batteries on fuel-poor households in the UK? 📊 Using real-world evidence from @octopus.energy customers, CNZ has done some early analysis whilst we run a randomised control trial. Check it out 👉 www.centrefornetzero.org/news/evaluat...

Nice chart from @centrefornetzero.bsky.social showing reduction in total energy use upon heat pump adoption.

📰 Thanks to @financialtimes.com for publishing our call for the cost of public charging to fall, to unlock the next wave of EV adopters 🚗 We're doing a trial w/ @octopus.energy funded by the Department for Transport to understand the £ elasticity of public charging demand 👀 Results out in April!

❌ Access to data is 🔑 to the acceleration of AI development in energy. But it's hard to share demand data due to privacy issues. 🇺🇸 CNZ joined @eprinews.bsky.social's AI & DX in Electric Power Summit in Cali to show how we're overcoming this via the creation of synthetic smart meter data. Info in 🧵

💡 It’s time to fundamentally rethink building performance as we decarbonise energy systems 📣 CNZ & @energysyscat.bsky.social are calling for a measurement of a building’s ability to flex its demand to align with clean electricity Summary 🔗 bit.ly/3PV1ISE Full report 🔗 bit.ly/40Cpo31 Details in 🧵

🚨 We're formally kicking off CNZ's Bluesky account with a quote from @jakereynolds.bsky.social: 💬 "This is easily the best study in the Net Zero energy behavior space this year" (2024) 🔗 Check out our paper evidencing the impact of heat pumps and a Time-of-Use tariff on demand 👉 bit.ly/3VeWi8f