Turn your buildings into powerstations
for savings and revenues

Challenge faced by consumers

Did you know?

Only 45% of electricity bill is actual energy costs, the rest is made of charges based on when you use the energy and government levies to manage the network

The situation is set-to get worse for instance , the capacity market levy is rising four times this year.

The future of the energy markets

2020

Electric Vehicles
Growth from 100,000 to 1.2 million
2023

Decarbonisation
Coal power stations to stop, 80% reduction by 2050
2030

Increase in Renewable
Renewable energy target – 34% with 33 GW Solar
2035
Electrification of Heat
40 GW added to peak winter demand

Our Value Proposition

We provide energy consumers (building owners) with new revenue streams and savings on energy bills, by enabling them to become prosumers proactively managing their consumption, production and storage of energy

How we do it?

Qbots operates a Federated Power Plant (FPP) that aggregates and utilises flexibility in consumer demand along with renewables & battery storage to enable localised trading and balancing, for building smart energy systems of the future.

Qbots AI powers two levels of prediction and control; one at the site level and one at the network level. The AI model on-site enables buildings to respond to notifications from the electricity grid to shift their electricity demand & use battery storage, while maintaining thermal comfort for its tenants and any constraints.

The Benefits

Smarter energy systems could save consumers upto £2 billion/year in 2030

– (Carbon trust, 2016).

Benefit from Becoming a Prosumer

Benefit from Becoming a Prosumer

Reduce your bills & earn revenues from energy markets by

Getting the best returns for your generation assets

Unlocking the value of flexibility in your energy consumption

Making use of battery storage and EV batteries

Start your own Local Aggregation

Start your own Local Aggregation

Actively manage your distributed energy resources (DERs) for optimised energy trading

Provide high value balancing services to the DSO and TSO

Contribute to your local community’s energy requirements

Be part of a federated power plant

Be part of a Federated power plant

Peer-to-peer energy-trading platform with transactions between self-organizing prosumers
Facilitates the participation of groups of prosumers in wholesale electricity markets, including ancillary services
Automated system matching prosumers with similar preferences including environmental, risks, community interests, location, time

Our Projects

Take a look at what we’ve been working on over the past year

CityVerve
Through the smart city programme worked with Bruntwood and University of Manchester, identified 3 buildings : Citylabs 1.0, Bright building and James Chadwick Building , carrying out flexibility modeling and analysis using energy data, BMS data to deliver demand side response & energy saving along with carbon reduction outcomes for stakeholders.
HoneyComb V2G
Vehcile-to-Grid project design along with Manchester city council and various stakeholders to enable the large-scale deployment of bidirectional EV charging points and sharing their available battery storage along with smart buildings and renewables to build a 50 MW virtual power plant
Exeter City Futures
4 months project with Exeter City council (ECC) estates, carrying out detailed analysis of the energy data from 5 sites, designed a smart system with battery storage (500 KW/500 kWh) for a site with existing 1.5 MW solar installation. The outcomes were better utilisation of on-site generation, savings on bill and provision of additional income through ancillary services to grid with energy trading.

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CityVerve
Through the smart city programme worked with Bruntwood and University of Manchester, identified 3 buildings : Citylabs 1.0, Bright building and James Chadwick Building , carrying out flexibility modeling and analysis using energy data, BMS data to deliver demand side response & energy saving along with carbon reduction outcomes for stakeholders.
HoneyComb V2G
Vehcile-to-Grid project design along with Manchester city council and various stakeholders to enable the large-scale deployment of bidirectional EV charging points and sharing their available battery storage along with smart buildings and renewables to build a 50 MW virtual power plant
Exeter City Futures
4 months project with Exeter City council (ECC) estates, carrying out detailed analysis of the energy data from 5 sites, designed a smart system with battery storage (500 KW/500 kWh) for a site with existing 1.5 MW solar installation. The outcomes were better utilisation of on-site generation, savings on bill and provision of additional income through ancillary services to grid with energy trading.
CityVerve Demo

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Who are we?

Qbots was founded in 2017 by Dr Li Yao along with co-founder, Vijay Natarajan with a vision to bring Internet of Things(IoT), data analytics , machine learning and automation capabilities to energy management utilising energy storage while helping to accelerate the adoption of renewables.
Everyday along side our team we strive to achieve our goal to optimise the performance of energy systems, lower costs and maximize return on investment throughout the system’s life.

Meet the team