Axle Energy // axle.energy // Onsite London, UK

We build software to run decarbonized electricity grids. Our platform controls vehicle charging, heating systems, and home batteries, adjusting their usage in line with the needs of the grid.

We control hundreds of thousands of energy assets across the UK, monetizing the demand flexibility we create in electricity markets. We're growing rapidly, backed by Accel, and looking for data scientists and engineers looking to make a dent in climate change.

https://www.axle.energy/careers

Lovely landing page, appreciate the care over the icons!

I've just moved back to Bristol (grew up here) and delighted to see this on HN.

Since this post is likely to be a good honeypot: can anybody recommend any good tech meetups here? I run an energy tech company and looking to meet like-minded folk

PyData Bristol often has good talks. It used to be hosted in the Ovo building (the energy company), but travels around. https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Bristol/

Lots of other meetups for various aspect of tech. It's Bristol Tech Festival this week too. https://techspark.co/tech-festival/

SWMobile https://www.meetup.com/swmobile/ is good if relevant.

Also SWUX https://www.meetup.com/swux-meetup-com/ which is UX (so not technically tech), but has an excellent tech-adjacent community, and lot of members who work for tech companies even if they're not techies themselves.

I've always enjoyed going to the MLops meetup (https://www.meetup.com/mlops-community-bristol), always very good talks on a wide range of subjects.

There is also PyData Bristol (https://www.meetup.com/pydata-bristol/)

Very curious to hear from users - definitely addresses a real pain point, does it do so successfully?

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, thanks!

Workflow I've used previously:

1. Render html (easy with a templating language e.g. Jinja for Python)

2. Turn the html into a pdf (e.g. wkhtmltopdf in Python)

But this is a rather bloated and slow approach since it's based on a webbrowser, right? I think it also requires some desktop environment like x11?

I inherited a codebase that uses this approach. You can use xvfb to get around the x11 frame buffer requirement. It works, but we are looking to migrate to another solution, since it appears that wkhtmltopdf is no longer maintained.

Headless Chromium is the way. Bloated maybe, but does the job.

I tried wkhtmltopdf some months ago and the PDFs it generated where nowhere near the original documents.

Love this. Bought a couple of books similar to "Midnight's Children' - author should definitely think about adding affiliate links!

I thought the OP was great, and am also a fan of Refactoring UI.

What's the "next level" from these handy rules of thumb? I'm looking for a UI 201

For the brave!

But seriously (author of article here) I think that agile tariffs and more demand flexibility are probably a big part of the solution

I have the luxury of a 13khw battery, so it might make sense. But I suspect that when I need to use the grid will be uber peak £1.04 per kwhr.

Edit: for those who are curious, here is some data on prices over the last month: https://agileprices.co.uk/

I guess you can’t have two suppliers, one on a traditional fixed contract and one on the octopus stuff, and choose the best one

You can, but you need to own two neighbouring houses and be willing to install an (illegal) cable between them.

Octopus Agile cap the prices at £1/kwh.