Future energy systems built with future energy data.
Centre for Net Zero is an open research institute, founded by Octopus Energy Group.
We operate autonomously, delivering research and leveraging AI to forecast the future of energy demand - for the benefit of governments, policy-makers and grid operators.
Our mission is to accelerate the journey to a fully sustainable, global energy system.
We are 15 leading venture builders, data scientists and engineers, economists, strategists, and policy experts.
Our focus
We build cutting-edge AI and ML models
These are trained on billions of datapoints from real-world consumers.
We run international field trials
These explore current and future evolutions in consumer energy behaviours.
Relationship with
Octopus Energy Group
Our relationship with the Octopus Energy Group (OEG) allows us to learn from millions of global customers, through billions of data points generated each day - and international field trials.
OEG is a global clean energy tech business, driving the affordable, green energy system of the future. Its operations span 32 countries and the entire energy value chain, and it services 9 million households and businesses globally.
We operate autonomously, pursuing our mission to accelerate the journey to a fully sustainable, global energy system.
Funded by a blend of industry (OEG), government, and philanthropy, we share our data openly with local and national governments, grid operators, and researchers to empower decarbonisation efforts.
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Octopus Energy Group spans 32 countries across 5 continents, and services 9 million households globally.
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Rows of data that Octopus Energy produces each day, that Centre for Net Zero can access.
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The number of Octopus Energy customers in the largest randomised control trial run by CNZ to date, as part of the Demand Flexibility Service '23-'24.