The energy system is changing.
Be part of the change.
ZUoS allows you to be greener and not even notice.
By providing intelligent control over your power and heating, ZUoS can profile your energy demand to better match variable renewable energy generation. All without any disruption - in fact, the only thing we want you to be sure to notice are the savings on your energy bill.
If you want to do something to reduce your energy bills and your climate impact, but don’t know where to start, ZUoS provides a powerful recommendations engine to identify individual or combined measures - from insulation and heating systems to Smart Control and EV charging, and everything in between.
Individual control, collective impact
ZUoS is unique in that it applies control over individual devices in a building to deliver three different and complementary levels of optimisation: in buildings, within communities, and at the network level. ZUoS operates the individual devices to collaborate as a team to achieve both individual and collective benefits - and like any team the impact is greater than the sum of the parts.
We apply the same principles to the installation stage - identifying the right measures for you as an individual, but allowing you to connect with others to harness collective buying power.
Automated, intelligent control of your energy
ZUoS learns how you use energy across different devices, and then applies smart controls to reduce your overall energy consumption, and adjusts your usage up and down throughout the day to respond to energy pricing, renewable energy generation, grid carbon intensity and network congestion. ZUoS is automated, leaving you free to focus on what’s important to you, while providing override control and all the information you need on cost, carbon and consumption through the interface.
This understanding of how your energy needs change across the day and year allows us to provide you with a better understanding of the impact on your home energy from making changes - whether that be installing loft insulation or getting an Electric Vehicle.
Act Local, Impact Global
ZUoS focuses at the local scale to tackle the global impacts from Climate Change. We harness the power of the community, to increase your buying power when it comes to retrofitting your home. This is particularly helpful in rural communities where getting tradesmen out for smaller jobs can be difficult.
ZUoS then optimises energy flows at the local level to match local energy demand with renewable energy generation, ZUoS allows more renewables and more low-carbon technologies to be installed in each neighbourhood, and makes the most efficient use of existing infrastructure to keep costs down for everyone.
The low-carbon technologies for a net-zero energy system already exist - ZUoS provides the planning and control capabilities to seamlessly coordinate their operation.
Technological innovation for social and environmental good
ZUoS has been developed across three interlocking and complementary platforms - ZUoS Home provides clear recommendations on the most appropriate energy efficiency and carbon reduction measures to install to reduce costs and/or carbon emissions; ZUoS Simulations forms digital twins of local networks to model how smart control can allow more low-carbon technologies can be installed without the need for network upgrades; and ZUoS Operations supports residents to be in control of their energy, automating services and providing visibility of use, cost and carbon. Our community approach is designed to support a just transition to the net zero energy system, which is fair, inclusive and affordable.
