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Highlights OCF’s first focus is on developing short-term solar forecasts that will decrease emissions and help electricity network operators integrate more renewables into their power grid. In this…

Over the last couple of months, we have focused on our Machine Learning () research around solar electricity short-term forecasting. The work is progressing nicely: in early March we released our…

Open Climate Fix has recently completed the first phase of our flagship solar Nowcasting project, which we have been working on with National Grid (NG-) since July 2021. With Nowcasting, we are…

With January already coming to an end, we thought it would be good to take a moment to reflect on everything that happened at OCF in 2021 and bring everyone up to speed on all the exciting…

Wow, where do we start? So much has happened in the last few months! It’s definitely time to provide another progress update. Keep on reading to learn more about how our projects are doing, news about…

This morning Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, announced the successful applicants to the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. The challenge commits €10M to fund “bold ideas that aim to…

In Yuval Noah Harari’s excellent book “Sapiens”, he outlines a fascinating history of how Homo Sapiens pulled apart from other species. That was through the use of our language to describe things that…

All of our values here at Open Climate Fix can be linked back to one word: Sustainability. Let’s start with the obvious: Environmental Sustainability. We are terrified by climate change and want to…

We’ve been quiet for a while, but that’s not because we were enjoying the summer on a small beach island (I wish!), but because we have been super busy with all our projects. Now that things are a…

Say you want to build an innovative new information service for the energy system. Maybe that’s an interactive map of energy assets; or a resource assessment tool that automatically determines the…

Last week, the Open Data Institute, a research institute founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, announced funding for seven initiatives and projects as part of their Innovate funded R&D programme. Open…

How do you get all of those distributed energy assets talking to each other to enable the smart use of power around the grid, given the electricity grid is sometimes described as the most complex…

To give a feel for why we're so excited about sharing energy data, let me tell a science fiction story to illustrate what we hope a 'web of linked energy data' could enable…. It's 2030. You buy a new…

Back in the 1980s, computers communicated over a hodge-podge mix of clunky, complex protocols. Building new services spanning more than one machine (or just maintaining existing services) was painful…

There is certainly a lot going on in the world right now, and we hope everyone reading this blog post is in good health. While it is hard to think about anything else right now, the challenge of…

If you'd like to use computer science to help mitigate climate change, then check out these resources: ClimateChange.AI - All about using AI to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Check out their…

Solar mapping is a sub-project of our nowcasting project. Nowcasting will provide solar yield predictions for any location. To be able to arrive at an accurate forecast for solar power generation…

At Open Climate Fix, we're about to start work on our solar electricity () nowcasting project. The aim of this project is to help reduce emissions (and costs) by forecasting solar electricity power…

I'm building a non-profit called Open Climate Fix, entirely focused on using open-science to help fix climate change ASAP. We'd love help :) This blog post lists a few concrete things we need help…

Solar is the single biggest source of uncertainty in the National Grid's forecasts. To mitigate against the risk of a large cloud sweeping across the country (and hence the grid losing gigawatts of…

Two days ago I tweeted a link to a blog post I wrote stating that I'd left DeepMind to start a non-profit research lab, focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I've been absolutely blown away by…

I left Google DeepMind. This is a particularly odd decision because I love the team I worked with at DeepMind. Since joining DeepMind, I've been constantly amazed by this team's compassion, focus…