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For residents · Founding pilot programme

Your evening, powered by cheaper hours.

Kettle is developing a service that helps decide when a home battery charges and when it supplies electricity to the house. If your housing provider takes part in a pilot, your home could be fitted with one of these batteries. Below is what that would involve. Taking part always happens through your housing provider.

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Cost to you
Intended to be fully funded
Your supplier
Stays the same
To remember
Nothing
A wall-mounted home battery unit in a utility space, cabling neatly clipped to the wall
A typical installation: one cabinet, one isolator, no change to your meter or supplier.

A day in one home

One day, one home, nothing you have to remember.

Step through an ordinary day. The routine never changes — only the hour the electricity was bought does.

Night · 3:00am

The battery fills up quietly

While the house is asleep, there is more clean electricity around than the country can use. That is when the battery takes its fill — no noise, nothing to switch on.

Battery charging82% charged
You
Asleep. Nothing to do.
The battery
Charging from the cheaper, cleaner hours.
Your bill
Charged by your own supplier, on your own tariff, as usual.

Illustrative. Kettle is at prototype stage, and what a battery can cover in a real home depends on the property and the household.

What changes

Here is what changes.

These are the main changes a pilot would bring to your home.

  1. 1

    A battery is fitted, at a time that suits you

    A qualified installer fits a battery in or near your home, on a day arranged with you. There is one short, planned interruption while it goes in.

  2. 2

    Software decides when the battery charges and discharges

    The battery charges up when electricity is cheaper and supplies your home during the busiest, most expensive hours. Everything in the house carries on working as before.

  3. 3

    Your supplier, your tariff and your tenancy stay put

    Nothing about who you pay or the agreement you hold changes because a battery has been fitted.

  4. 4

    Pilots are being designed with no cost to residents

    Pilots are set up so residents are not asked for payment, bank details or a deposit. Exact terms are confirmed with each housing provider before a pilot starts. If anyone asks you for money to take part, it is not us.

And what stays exactly as it is

  • Your electricity supplier and your tariff
  • Your tenancy agreement
  • When you cook, wash, heat or charge things
  • Who you call in an emergency or a power cut

Being straight with you

We are not promising you a specific saving.

Kettle is still developing this service and setting up pilots with housing providers. Anyone quoting you a precise figure today would be guessing. Each pilot is intended to test whether shifting when electricity is bought and used makes a real difference to what households pay, and to work out how any saving would be shared once that is confirmed.

If you are struggling with energy costs right now, please do not wait for a pilot. See help and support for organisations that can help today.

What is collected
How much electricity is used at the property over time, and how the battery is performing.
What it is used for
Running the battery and checking whether the pilot has made a difference.
What never happens
It is not sold, and it is never used to make decisions about your tenancy.
Read the full privacy notice

Questions

Resident questions, answered.

Next step

Register your interest.

This is an expression of interest, not an application for a product you can have today. Kettle cannot install directly for individual households: if a pilot goes ahead, it runs through a participating housing provider. Registering is not a contract and does not guarantee that your home is eligible.

  • No payment and no bank details, at any stage
  • No installation date is implied, and no pilot is confirmed
  • Participation would be arranged through your housing provider

For example M14. We do not need your full address at this stage.

Registering is not a contract

It does not commit you to anything and does not guarantee that your home is eligible. Your supplier, tariff and tenancy do not change when you register. We never ask for payment or bank details on this page.

We only collect what we need to reply and to check eligibility. Read our privacy notice.

Where we are today

Kettle Energy is in development and setting up its first pilots with UK housing associations. Taking part will depend on your landlord's participation, property eligibility, resident consent and agreed pilot terms.