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Open Climate Fix in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute are named as 1 of 10 finalists in the Manchester Prize for AI innovation.
In its inaugural year, the Manchester Prize called upon the ingenuity of innovators, academics, entrepreneurs, and disruptors to submit their solutions utilising AI for public benefit. The prize garnered nearly 300 entries from UK-led teams, showcasing a diverse array of groundbreaking ideas.
May 21, 2024
Dan Travers
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Open Climate Fix forecasting on an upward trajectory
October 10, 2023
Bhavika Sharma
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Government unveils £3.75m funding for AI decarbonisation projects
DSIT has selected 12 green AI initiatives to receive a share of £1m. Among them is Open Climate Fix, which is developing an AI system to support the connection of solar electricity to the energy grid.
August 16, 2023
Bhavika Sharma
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Can AI help solve the climate crisis?
Great to be name-checked by Google DeepMind as a project using AI to address climate change. We love that Sims Witherspoon sees the opportunity that we see, of AI being used outside of the largest tech firms can ensure transparency and accelerate the application of AI solutions to climate and other SDGs.
July 20, 2023
Bhavika Sharma
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Sunny Side Up: Nonprofit Uses AI to Forecast Solar Energy for British Grid
With the help of Open Climate Fix, a British-based nonprofit product lab, the control room of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) is testing AI models that provide granular, near-term forecasts of sunny and cloudy conditions over the country’s solar panels.
May 3, 2023
Bhavika Sharma
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Commonwealth joins forces with global tech organisations to empower Commonwealth citizens in AI
We are delighted to be invited to be part of this AI for good project sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat. Our experience shows that our open-source solar forecasting platform not only lowers energy generation costs but also delivers significant carbon reductions by reducing fossil fuel use in balancing power grids. We have designed our platform to be globally scalable, and being open source, local engineers can tailor the AI model and data inputs to their specific climates, allowing AI to act locally to have a global climate impact.
April 19, 2023
Bhavika Sharma
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Sun in Their AIs: Nonprofit Forecasts Solar Energy for UK Grid
With the help of Open Climate Fix, a nonprofit product lab, the control room of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) is testing AI models that provide granular, near-term forecasts of sunny and cloudy conditions over the country’s solar panels.
February 24, 2023
Bhavika Sharma
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Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto
Ex-DeepMinder Jack Kelly's nonprofit Open Climate Fix is backed by Google. What it does: Open Climate Fix is a London-based nonprofit "focused entirely on helping the energy community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at scale," according to the organization's website.
September 20, 2022
Bhavika Sharma
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New open digital solutions to speed up the energy revolution
State-of-the-art solar PV generation forecast for individual PV systems Led by Open Climate Fix. Developing a state-of-the-art open-source method for forecasting power generation from solar photovoltaic systems. This will help solar farms, solar storage, and smart homes to optimise and manage their systems, reducing both costs and CO2 emissions.
May 23, 2022
Bhavika Sharma
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EN_TECH_TALKS SESSION 01: THE READOUT
A few weeks ago, the Centre for Net Zero invited Jack Kelly, co-founder of Open Climate Fix and ex-DeepMind engineer, and Dr Ramit Debnath, former Gates Scholar and Fellow at the University of Cambridge, to join us at the launch of en_tech_talks to answer this question.
April 5, 2022
Bhavika Sharma
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Life after Deepmind: the businesses set up by the AI geniuses who quit after it sold out to Google
Open Climate Fix (OCF) founded by Kelly in 2019, it aims to use AI and satellite imagery to forecast cloud movements much earlier than existing tech, enabling the National Grid to use solar energy more efficiently.
October 31, 2021
Bhavika Sharma
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Getting Support and Funding from the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate
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 use technology to accelerate Europe’s progress toward a greener, more resilient future”...
April 13, 2021
Flo Wirtz
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From our blog:

Lazy loading: Making it easier to access vast datasets of weather & satellite data
AI has developed at a stunning pace over the last few years in fields such as natural language processing and image recognition. Given all this development, it's surprising that we haven't seen similarly rapid advancement in the application of AI to electricity forecasting given its critical role in people's lives and the transition to net zero carbon emissions. We'd love to live in a world where it's super-easy to work with huge NWP and satellite datasets. We are already dedicating significant time and effort towards this, and would love to hear from people who support this vision and who can help!
Sep 10, 2024
Dr. Jack Kelly
Can AI Supercharge the Potential of Solar Power?
Open Climate Fix and Alan Turing Institute are working on a project to predict cloud cover and solar energy generation.
Jul 8, 2024
Dan Travers
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