AI-powered energy management. Saving money and creating cleaner, greener homes.
Kettle Energy is building an AI platform that helps housing providers and residents use electricity more intelligently. By coordinating connected homes, the platform is designed to store energy when it is abundant (cheaper) to use at peak times when electricity is typically more expensive. This reduces costs and the carbon footprint. We are inviting UK housing providers to help shape and validate the first pilots.
- Programme
- Founding pilot recruitment
- Partner opportunity
- UK housing providers
- Resident model
- Fully funded pilot ambition
Founding pilot programme · Housing-provider partners invited
A smart way to match energy with demand.
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Cleaner electricity becomes available.
Wind and solar output can sometimes exceed what the country is using at that particular moment. For example, it is night time and extremely windy. This pushes the price of electricity down.
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Supply and demand do not always align.
The network cannot always move that electricity to where it is needed, so some clean generation is turned down, or switched off entirely. Balancing the grid, so that supply and demand match at every moment, is the job of the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
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Kettle's AI platform coordinates the response.
Kettle's AI platform is designed to interpret energy availability, time and expected household demand all of which impact the cost. The platform connects the home assets so electricity can be stored and made available at more useful times.
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Homes access energy at better (by better we mean cheaper) times.
Participating households would draw on stored electricity when they need it most (which is typically when demand is high). This approach reduces waste and cost.
The signature problem
Matching cleaner electricity with the moments homes need it.
Follow a typical day. Kettle's AI platform identifies opportunities to shift energy use and coordinate connected home batteries between periods of availability and demand.
01:00 · Overnight
Wind blows while the country sleeps
Generation is high and demand is low. This is the cheapest, cleanest electricity of the day — and the moment fewest people are using it.
Battery charging · 37% stored
- Clean electricity available
- What homes use
- Surplus that could be shifted
- Stored in the battery — 37%
For illustration purposes only.
The Kettle platform
One intelligent platform. A connected community of homes.
Kettle brings together energy signals, expected demand and connected home technologies in one coordinated system. The platform is designed to identify when electricity can be stored and when it can be made available for homes, while giving housing providers an estate-wide view of pilot performance.
- Understands. Energy availability, time and expected demand.
- Identifies. Opportunities to store and use electricity at better times.
- Coordinates. Connected energy assets across participating homes.
- Measures. Pilot performance and estate-level learning.
Benefits
The pilot goals.
Kettle Energy is built to help housing associations create warmer, more affordable and better-performing homes, turning household energy use into clear, actionable insight for residents and your organisation alike. The first pilots will measure how effectively the Kettle platform can deliver value for residents, housing providers and their communities.
01
Help residents manage household energy costs
Give residents clear, real-time insight into their energy use so they can reduce waste, change everyday habits and take greater control of household costs.
02
Strengthen fuel-poverty support
Identify unusual or inefficient consumption patterns and enable earlier, more targeted support for residents struggling to heat and power their homes affordably.
03
Turn energy data into actionable asset insight
Use real-world energy insights to direct investment more effectively, strengthen funding cases and protect the long-term value of housing stock.
04
Support EPC and decarbonisation planning
Measure energy consumption and carbon across housing stock to support EPC improvement plans, sustainability targets and stakeholder reporting.
05
Build resident confidence and engagement
Turn complex energy data into simple, useful guidance that helps residents understand their homes, participate in energy-saving initiatives and recognise the value of energy improvements.
Latest
Evidence and updates.
Grid and policy
The electricity isn't missing. It's arriving at the wrong time.
Discover why renewable electricity can be underused, how distributed batteries could help, and what Kettle Energy's ambition could mean for households and the Liverpool City Region.
Updated 30 July 2026 · 12 min read
Community battery
What is a community battery, and how does it work in the UK?
A plain-English explanation of community batteries in the UK — what they are, how shared storage differs from a home battery, and what they mean for social housing.
Updated 30 July 2026 · 7 min read
News · Energy Explained
Why Is Renewable Electricity Still Being Wasted?
On windy nights, Britain can produce more clean electricity than the network can deliver to the places using it. Understanding why that surplus goes unused is the starting point for using it better.
28 July 2026 · Kettle Energy
Next step
Explore a Kettle Energy pilot for your housing portfolio.
Tell us about your portfolio, resident priorities and sustainability goals. Together, we can explore how a pilot could be structured around your organisation and what meaningful success would look like.
No obligation. We reply to enquiries at hello@kettle.energy.co.uk Alternatively, use the contact form and a member of the team will be in touch as quickly as possible.
Where we are today
Start here
Different approaches, depending on your needs.
A pilot touches residents, asset teams, sustainability leads, finance and procurement. Each needs something different before they can say yes.