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Energy Unplugged: Aurora Energy Research podcast

Our CEO Lucy Yu joins Jon Norman, President of Hydrostor, to discuss how flexibility plays a crucial role in enabling a clean power grid

Evaluating the impact of solar PV and battery installations on vulnerable households

CNZ shares initial analysis of the impact of solar PV and battery installations on vulnerable households, using real-world evidence.

EPRI Artificial Intelligence & Digital Transformation in Electric Power Summit

CNZ joined EPRI's AI & DX in Electric Power Summit to examine one of the key barriers and enablers that shape AI development in the energy sector: data access.

The Financial Times: Letter to Editor

A letter from CNZ arguing for the importance of reducing public EV charging costs - and trailing the results of a trial we'll be reporting on in April.

NBER: spotlight on CNZ heat pump research

The National Bureau of Economic Research has highlighted our latest working paper on the impact of heat pumps and time-of-use tariffs on energy demand

Winner: OpenUK Awards 2024

CNZ won the sustainability category at "the Oscars of Open Source", OpenUK's 5th annual awards, for advancing the creation & adoption of synthetic energy data

CNZ CEO appointed at Clean Power 2030 Commissioner

The UK government appoints CNZ CEO Lucy Yu to the Clean Power 2030 Advisory Commission to help accelerate UK's mission to decarbonise the electricity grid.

OpenSynth: new data release

We announce the release the outputs of our generative AI model on OpenSynth - an open data community democratising access to synthetic smart meter data

Business Green: Cooling in a warming world

CNZ's latest op-ed for Business Green discusses recent findings from our analysis of the historic behaviours of consumers in Texas with smart thermostats.

CrowdFlex project successfully completes first phase of large-scale consumer trials

Centre for Net Zero is leading on trial design for CrowdFlex, the UK’s biggest home energy flexibility study - and the first set of results are in.

The Times: Letter to Editor

A letter from our Director of External Affairs, Izzy Woolgar, arguing why accelerated energy transition efforts are the opposite of ‘delusional and reckless’

CNZ Chief Economist appointed Professor of Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA

Our Chief Economist, Robert Metcalfe, is joining Columbia University as the endowed Professor of Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA.

Semafor: The solution to the AI power boom is a better grid, not a bigger one

Our CEO Lucy Yu sat down with Semafor to discuss why the scramble to supply power for the AI boom doesn't just have to focus on new infrastructure.

CNZ at ICLR 2024: The international conference on learning representations

Centre for Net Zero recently presented generative AI work at the world's leading machine learning conference, ICLR 2024

Business Green: Lessons for energy policy modelling from Peter Higgs

The scientific principles championed by the Nobel prize winning physicist are key to delivering the future of energy and an electrified grid, writes Lucy Yu.

Talking New Energy podcast: intelligent demand

We speak to energy experts Delta LCP about our work on intelligent demand, the growing role of automation, and open synthetic smart meter data.

Accelerating the climate action agenda with AI

Speaking at the BNP Paribas Sustainable Future Forum Gareth Jones discusses how AI modelling can help forecast and optimise energy consumption.

Size of the prize: How flexible heat and transport demand can be a foundation of the future energy system

Senior Policy Adviser Andy Hackett's latest blog for UKERC, exploring our latest modelling and the value of domestic demand flexibility.

BBC News: Heat pumps still too expensive, government warned

Director of External Affairs Izzy Woolgar comments on The UK National Audit Office latest report on consumer adoption of heat pumps.

Democratising access to global synthetic smart meter data with LF Energy

Centre for Net Zero launches a new open data community - OpenSynth - in partnership with The Linux Foundation's LF Energy.

The New Statesman: ‘The policy ask’ with Lucy Yu

The CEO of Centre for Net Zero is profiled by the New Statesman, discussing the UK’s approach to AI, scrapping the heat pump tax, and meeting Al Gore.

Carbon Brief: How Great Britain’s ‘demand flexibility service’ is cutting costs and CO2 emission

Carbon Brief's review of last year's National Grid ESO trial, ’The Impact of Demand Response on Energy Consumption and Economic Welfare’.