homecell
Plug-and-store green energy.
Affiliated with: Royal College of Art, Final masters group project, 2021
Achievements: Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition Semi-finalist 2022
Role: Design research, technology development, prototyping and impact studies
Project overview
We know that the electricity we consume at home comes from a mix of energy sources, with an increasing proportion being renewable. However, these green sources are heavily dependent on weather conditions, resulting in intermittent and unpredictable supply. We designed homecell to store electricity from the national grid when it is most renewable, allowing clean energy to be used at home, any time, by anyone.
How it works
The mix of energy sources (oil, nuclear, wind etc.) which feeds the UK national grid continuously varies throughout the day. homecell communicates with the National Grid API to determine when the energy coming from our plug sockets is the cleanest and sets its internal batteries to charge. Now when someone switches on an appliance connected to the homecell unit, it will use the energy stored in the batteries from when the energy was cleanest.