Voltaware and Net0 have forged a partnership in the face of rising electricity prices and the pressing need for carbon reduction.
Net0, with its AI-driven data, empowers users to monitor and track their energy use down to the appliance level. Together, they aim to offer actionable insights into carbon reduction, optimizing energy spending, and promoting greener businesses and buildings. This collaboration provides businesses with a comprehensive solution to oversee, diminish, and report their carbon emissions while maximizing energy efficiency and cost savings.
The Challenge
Electricity prices have surged, affecting millions globally. There’s a pressing need for actionable insights to help businesses and households reduce energy costs and carbon footprints. Voltaware’s AI-driven insights and Net0’s comprehensive carbon accounting platform address this challenge head-on.
The Solution
Voltaware’s AI algorithm disaggregates energy use down to each appliance, providing real-time insights. Features include:
- VoltaScore: Energy efficiency score based on historical consumption, P2P comparisons and tariff information driving engagement via gamification.
- Appliance status checks when out of home to prevent customers from leaving critical appliances being left on.
- Intelligents alerts on appliance overconsumption which help customers to detect inefficiencies or misused appliances.
- Elderly Monitoring alerts to the next of kin to non-intrusively monitor an elderly relative living alone and track inactivity levels.
Net0 offers an AI-powered, automation-first carbon accounting platform, packed with sophisticated tailored tops. This allows businesses to:
- Full-spectrum emissions tracking, ensuring that businesses have a comprehensive view of their carbon footprint across all operational levels.
- Real-time Carbon Reporting, now using advanced analytics, businesses can access real-time carbon emission data.
- Industry-specific solutions that are tailored to the unique challenges and requirements of each industry.
- Cutting-edge Financial Strategies and Tools that ensure that profitability and environmental responsibility go hand in hand.
Sergey Ogorodnov, CEO:
Net0 provides a scalable carbon emissions measurement tool which combines greatly with our energy insight platform. Our utility customers can now use both softwares to unlock new business opportunities and achieve their climate targets. We look forward to working with Net0 across our key European markets.
The Impact
Onda Più’s Success Story: Onda Più, an energy retailer in Sicily with a customer base of 50,000, integrated Voltaware’s solutions:
- Deployed over 10,000 rebranded Voltaware sensors, incorporating real-time actionable insights into their customer app.
- Achieved an 8% annual energy bill reduction for their customers.
- Witnessed a fourfold decrease in customer churn rate.
- Observed a 5x increase in customer engagement on the Onda app.
- Enhanced brand awareness and loyalty, setting themselves apart from traditional utilities.
François Gruber-Magitot, Voltaware, Head of Business Development:
Deploying Voltaware across Onda customers has helped them to take command of their energy use while democratizing energy literacy in Southern Italy. This clearly shows that actionable energy insights are the key to reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions at scale. It also strengthened Onda’s position in the market as a challenger utility with a differentiated customer proposition.
The alliance between Voltaware and Net0 transcends the conventional business partnership. It stands as a testament to the transformative power of technology-driven solutions in the face of today’s environmental challenges. As businesses worldwide grapple with the intricate dance of fiscal responsibility and environmental stewardship, this collaboration offers a compelling narrative of success.
The metamorphosis of Onda Più, under the aegis of this alliance, serves as a testament to the transformative power of technology and collaboration. But it’s more than just a success story; it’s a call to arms. Voltaware and Net0 partnership sends a clear message to businesses everywhere: the path to sustainability is paved with innovation, and the journey, while challenging, is worth every step.