Buildings that help the grid

kuafu lets solar panels, batteries, electric cars and heat pumps in buildings work with the power grid. This can lower costs and CO₂.

Supported by

  • ETH Zurich Start-up
  • Empa spin-off
  • Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
  • City of Zurich
  • KlimUp, funding programme of the City of Zurich
  • BRIDGE Proof of Concept, SNSF and Innosuisse
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • BRYCK
  • Innosuisse – Swiss Innovation Agency: Core Coaching, Innovation Cheque, BRIDGE
  • MassChallenge
  • ESA BIC Switzerland
  • Grid2050
  • Innovation Booster powered by Innosuisse
  • Climate Launchpad, EIT Climate-KIC
  • Imperial Techcelerate Programme
  • Founderful Campus
  • NCCR Automation
  • Bluelion

More solar panels, electric cars and heat pumps. The same grid

Buildings are switching to electric heating and charging. When many devices run at the same time, the local grid reaches its limits, and upgrades are slow and expensive.

kuafu orchestrates these devices so that they run at better times: when there is plenty of solar power, when electricity is cheaper, or when the grid has room.

Line drawing: kuafu in the middle, connected by dotted lines to a house with a solar roof, a heat pump, a battery and a large solar field behind one shared grid connection, an apartment building with solar panels and an electric car at a charger; a power cable under the ground connects them all to a local transformer station, whose load stays below its power limit

How kuafu works

  1. 1

    Connect

    kuafu connects through the energy management system that already runs in the building.

  2. 2

    Learn

    kuafu learns how each building uses energy, and how much it can shift.

  3. 3

    Orchestrate

    Devices run when solar power is plentiful, prices are lower, or the grid has room.

See the platform in detail

See what your flexibility is worth

Tell us about your portfolio or grid area. We reply by email and show how kuafu fits.