How Lumo worksin the background
Lumo connects to your solar and battery system, understands your tariff and energy usage patterns,and then automatically manages energy to help you get more value with less manual effort.
Case study
Set up once. Optimised every day.
“Lumo makes the system feel much easier to manage. Instead of constantly checking tariffs and battery settings, it works in the background.”
- Smarter daily optimisation
Automatically manages when energy is stored, used or exported.
- More value from your system
Helps unlock savings and flexibility earnings where eligible.
- Clearer performance visibility
Monitors your system to help spot issues and underperformance early.
The challenge
Solar and batteries are powerful, but hard to manage manually
Most households don't want to spend time checking tariffs, changing battery settings, deciding when to charge, when to export, or whether their system is performing properly. As energy tariffs and flexibility markets become more dynamic, the best outcome often depends on making the right decision at the right time.
Tariffs change throughout the day
Solar generation varies with the weather
Household usage is hard to predict
Batteries need the right charge and discharge strategy
The process
What happens behind the scenes
Connect your system
Lumo securely connects to supported solar, battery and home energy devices through existing device APIs.
Understand your home
Lumo reads your system data, tariff information and energy patterns to understand how your home uses, stores and exports energy.
Forecast what's coming
Lumo uses solar, consumption and tariff information to plan when energy is likely to be most valuable.
Optimise automatically
Lumo manages battery charging, discharging and export decisions so your system can work harder without you constantly adjusting settings.
Monitor performance
Lumo tracks your system over time, helping identify connectivity issues, underperformance or unusual behaviour early.
A day in the life
A better daily plan for your battery
Lumo looks ahead across the day and makes decisions based on expected solar generation, home usage and tariff prices. This helps your battery charge when energy is cheaper or abundant, discharge when it is more valuable, and export when there is an opportunity to create more value.
- Charge smarter
Stores energy when it is cheapest or most useful.
- Use more of your own energy
Helps reduce unnecessary grid import.
- Export at better times
Where possible, exports energy when it may be worth more.
Flexibility earnings
What are flexibility earnings?
As the UK electricity grid becomes more renewable, there are times when the grid needs households and devices to shift when they use, store or export energy. Eligible homes with batteries can help provide this flexibility. Lumo is designed to help suitable systems participate in these opportunities where available.
The grid needs flexibility
More renewables means the grid needs better ways to balance supply and demand.
Your battery can help
A home battery can store, use or export energy at useful times.
Lumo manages the process
Where eligible, Lumo helps coordinate participation without the homeowner needing to manage it manually.
No disruption to you
Lumo's algorithms maximise the value we capture for you, while minimising any impact on how you use energy day to day.
Ongoing monitoring
Keeping an eye on system performance
Even well-installed solar and battery systems can experience connectivity issues, underperformance or changes in behaviour over time. Lumo helps provide ongoing visibility so problems can be spotted earlier.
Connectivity checks
Helps identify when devices stop sending data properly.
Performance visibility
Tracks whether the system appears to be operating as expected.
Installer support
Gives installers better information to support customers after installation.
Homeowner experience
Less manual checking. More automatic optimisation.
- No tariff optimisation
- Savings usually around 60-80%
- Zero flexibility earnings
- Manually changing battery settings
- Guessing when to charge or export
- Limited visibility of performance
- Around 30% in additional tariff optimisation
- Savings usually 100-120%
- Flexibility earnings of around £150 every year
- Automatic daily optimisation
- No day-to-day management
- System performance & health checks
Compatibility
Lumo works with your devices and utilities
Most manufacturers offer little or no optimisation. Those that do can usually only optimise within their own ecosystem. Lumo sits above the noise, connecting across devices, brands, tariffs and utilities to optimise the whole home energy system in the most valuable way.
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