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UK company 09115827, incorporated on 3 July 2014.
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Company number 09115827
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Upside has a cloud service which enables households and small businesses to get paid to reduce their energy usage at peak times. This will help reduce the cost of energy in the UK while also reducing the environmental impact of energy generation.
Upside was created for the Nesta Dynamic Demand Challenge in London, October 2013. As one of five finalists from a field of more than seventy Hackathon entries, Upside found a way to reduce energy costs and environmental impacts. At peak times, the electricity grid runs dangerously short of capacity. In order to meet demand, it turns on all its oldest, dirtiest, most expensive power stations. Upside has found a cheaper and greener way, by paying people to not use electricity at peak times.
During my EPSRC fellowship I partnered with Upside to help them build their cloud service. This partnership was formalised by a linked EPSRC-Innovate UK grant of £472,388 (or £829,488 including in-kind contributions) which funded an 18 month pilot project for the Upside business. I was principal investigator on the EPSRC part of the grant (£47,463). This partnership is described at http://upsideenergy.co.uk/2016/10/19/upside-delivers-successful-innovate-uk-project/
The CO2 prediction and stochastic optimal control algorithms which the research produced helped the company to develop.
1 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2020
Offshore wind will be pivotal in helping the UK meet its net-zero 2050 target but successfully increasing the proportion of offshore wind in the energy mix will require the industry to aggressively pursue measures to facilitate the smooth integration of energy generated into the grid. There are a range of technical challenges that must be overcome to achi...
1 Sep 2019 to 30 Sep 2021
GRIDSERVE are bringing to the UK market a revolutionary product: the Solar Electric Forecourt(r) that will make electric vehicle charging as easy as using a petrol station and be supplied by clean, low-cost solar energy. Our national network will address public concerns around mass-market EV charging that is currently preventing widespread adoption while ...
1 Feb 2019 to 31 Jul 2019
"One of a number of strategic investment projects within the £875 million City Leap Programme, the BESST (Bristol Energy Smart System Transformation) project will design a customer focused way to deploy smart energy (heat and power) and digital technology at scale, to reduce energy system costs and deliver a radically new customer experience for local ene...
1 Jan 2019 to 31 Mar 2019
"GRIDSERVE are bringing to the UK market a revolutionary product and concept: the Electric Forecourt(tm) that addresses the current public concerns about mass-market charging of electric vehicles whilst simultaneously generating renewable energy and solving grid challenges. The concept is highly aligned to the UK Government's 2018 Road to Zero strategy. O...
1 Jan 2019 to 30 Jun 2019
"The Greater Manchester Local Energy market (LEM) project will test the feasibility of a GM region wide local energy market which responds to \`place-based' constraints and market needs. The key driver for the project is to enable and increase the flexibility in the energy distribution network through: novel management tools (including building management...
1 Sep 2018 to 29 Feb 2020
40% of UK population live in urban environments without access to off-street parking, so cannot install home Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers. If these people cannot access on-street charging infrastructure, we will not hit national targets for EV uptake and electrification of transport. Charging infrastructure suffers from a chicken-and-egg problem: people...
1 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2019
"EV batteries can provide significant flexibility to the grid and hence value to the consumer, but this must be considered in the context of consumers' wider lifestyle and systems. HAVEN will examine the value that V2G and V2H (vehicle-to-home) enabled EVs can provide to consumers within the context of other energy storage systems (e.g. LI-Ion batteries a...
1 Jun 2018 to 30 Nov 2020
V2GO (Vehicle-To-Grid Oxford) will develop, trial and evaluate potential business models, on- and off-vehicle hardware and products and services by engaging with UK fleet operators. Fleet vehicles account for 56% of new registrations and are quickly (i.e., ?3 years) turned over into the private market. A better understanding of fleet operators' attitudes ...
1 Mar 2018 to 29 Feb 2020
To design and implement a novel unified security framework that expands the currently deployed OpenADR protocol and complies with the ISO27001 standards.
1 Aug 2017 to 31 Jul 2019
To develop a machine learning architecture and embedded capability to enable Upside Energy to continuously evolve its ensemble of algorithms for grid prediction and demand response portfolio management.
1 Jul 2017 to 31 Dec 2019
The DESIRE project will explore supply chains that integrate grid demand response services with domestic hot water and battery storage. If successful, the project will open up new supply chains and income streams for markets that can underpin the intergation of large-scale intermittent energy into the grid. Upside Energy has developed a novel, cloud-based...
1 Nov 2016 to 31 Jan 2017
The 12 month First Of A Kind "GBDESC: Grid Balancing via the Domestic Energy Supply Chain" project is focused on installing Home Energy Storage Systems (HESS; including Batteries, Inverters, Meters, and Control Systems) into 400 homes with PV systems, and then in using these systems to provide balancing services to the grid. In doing so the project will f...
