Project Mercury, a new alliance of providers aims to set global standards for the integration of clean tech with smart energy systems.

First announced at the Wired x Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin last Thursday, Octopus Energy aims to establish a consortium of hardware manufacturers to simplify the integration of the 200 million clean tech devices that are predicted to be in use by 2030.

Known as Mercury Enabled, the new technical guidelines will certify device interoperability and functionality to support energy grids by balancing supply and demand.

The new standard will simplify the switch to clean tech devices like heat pumps, batteries, solar panels and EV chargers for millions of customers, and allow systems from different manufacturers to ‘talk’ to each other, a recurring issue in connecting solar, batteries, charges and EVs for example.

Greg Jackson, founder of Octopus Energy Group, says: “Just as Bluetooth set a global standard for tech devices, we need a similar approach for energy, allowing millions of smart energy technologies to seamlessly integrate with each other.”

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