What changes in everyday life?
Homeowners and occupants could benefit when comfort is maintained.
THE YOTTABIT ERA / INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
What if your building knew the cleanest and cheapest time to use energy?
A building shifts some flexible electricity use to a period when power is cleaner or less expensive.
IMAGINE WHAT THIS COULD CHANGE
Buildings might lower some operating costs while supporting a more flexible grid.
HERE IS HOW IT COULD WORK
A building shifts some flexible electricity use to a period when power is cleaner or less expensive. Smart controls could respond to electricity prices, emissions signals and occupancy. Homeowners and occupants could benefit when comfort is maintained. Operators need to test savings after weather, comfort and equipment wear are included. Many buildings use electricity according to fixed schedules, even when prices and the mix of power sources change throughout the day. Smarter controls could shift some flexible activities to better times without disrupting the people inside. That could lower costs and help use clean electricity when it is available. Comfortable, safe buildings still matter more than achieving an impressive-looking optimization score.
THE QUESTION THAT MATTERS MOST
What could this mean
for my world?
Where's the new opportunity?
Operators need to test savings after weather, comfort and equipment wear are included.
A QUESTION TO TAKE INTO TOMORROW
Where could one load shift by an hour without affecting anyone's experience?
About Jim Carroll and the idea behind YottaBit ↗BEHIND THE POSSIBILITY
Is this real already?
This is an opportunity we're exploring, not a promise that the complete result is already available. The research below explains the difference.
What still has to happen READ THE RESEARCH CONTEXT +
This idea comes from the Yottabit research foundation's Opportunity Atlas. It is a proposed application rather than a quantified forecast or evidence of a broadly deployed product.
What would demonstrate real progress? A useful result that works reliably outside a demonstration, withstands appropriate testing and improves an outcome people care about.