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The 3am Problem: Why Your Building Wastes Energy Overnight | GridEdge

GridEdge — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:45:15 GMT

Your building is heating itself right now. Nobody is there. The lifts are parked, the cleaning crew has gone, the security desk is dark, and the air-handling unit on the third floor is pulling fresh air at full speed.

COMFORT FIRST, OR YOUR SAVINGS DON'T SURVIVE WINTER

GridEdge — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:24:45 GMT

Cold offices have killed more energy projects than any other failure mode. It almost never shows up in the post-mortem.

The maths on cost and carbon is well-rehearsed. The maths on whether the building stays comfortable when the schedule changes is almost never in the spreadsheet. So the project gets sold on cost, lands on carbon, and dies on comfort — usually in the third week of January, when somebody important sends an email about the heating.

Once that email lands, the energy programme reverts to the safe schedule, and a year of good work goes with it.

Your Building Is Making People Uncomfortable. Here’s What It’s Costing You.

GridEdge — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:47:00 GMT

It’s 7:14am. Your phone buzzes. Third floor is freezing. Fifth floor is roasting. The BMS says everything is running normally.

Flexibility Update 2024

Seb Belcher — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:44:41 GMT

⚡Carbon Load Shifting ⚡

Enabling Net Zero through enabling grid interactive efficient buildings.

We’ve been working with our customers & partners to adjust their power consumption to align with periods of lower carbon production.

We are doing this through demand side flexibility.

What do you know about flexibility?

If you know us, you’ll know we’re passionate about accelerating the journey to Net Zero and the power of flexibility in commercial buildings, so speak about it often, but in case you want to brush up:

Flexibility in the energy system is the ability to change how much energy is being used. On the generation side, this means being able to increase or decrease generation based on changing demand.

On the demand side, this could mean turning down equipment use to prevent electricity bottlenecks or turning equipment up to use more wind energy to avoid paying twice for energy.

We’re working with our clients and partners to avoid carbon emissions by reducing consumption when, for example, a cloud passes over a solar farm and a gas station needs to be turned on to make up the difference.

Doing this not only reduces carbon but avoids the need to install expensive technologies on the grid, reducing the costs of electricity.

Want to get involved? Get in touch with us here.

2030 Vision Of A Net Zero Theatre

GridEdge — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:46:00 GMT

Take a look through our crystal ball and be transported to an unusually hot summer’s day in 2030, where theatre-goers are due to attend the two performances taking place at the local theatre. Despite the heat, humidity and subsequent need to have a cool space, the facilities management teams aren’t worried about an increased use of air conditioning. Why? Because they aren’t going to increase the air conditioning at all! Fear not! This does not mean the audience will spend the next few hours in discomfort. Indeed, increasing the comfort of the theatre’s occupants doesn’t necessarily mean sacrificing carbon neutrality or Net Zero goals.

AI Turns Historic Royal Opera House Into A Digital Twin To Reduce Carbon

GridEdge — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:45:00 GMT

The Royal Opera House in London is taking an innovative step forward on its journey to become Net Zero. As part of its renewed focus on sustainability, the Royal Opera House is embracing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning working with its new clean-technology partner Grid Edge. Due to the size and complexity of the building, two months were spent creating a full digital ‘twin’ of the 163-year old building using the latest technology. 12,000 pieces of data per second are now being analysed by the digital twin from 1400 different data points, which will ultimately optimise energy use throughout the building to cut carbon emissions.