A light switch moment for smarter energy Piers Daniell, Tewke

Tewke founder reveals to PC Pro how he’s building a smart grid in the home

There are few technologies as simple or as ubiquitous as a light switch. Tewke founder Piers Daniell hopes that by replacing two or three of them in the home with his smart energy consoles – dubbed Taps – he’ll be able to cut your energy bills in half. We met up at CES 2025 to find out how it works. PC Pro: Where did you get the original idea for Tewke from? Piers Daniell: I’d set a company up called FluidOne. We built data networks, and we were trying to put data over power lines, and it just opened my eyes to how antiquated our energy generation system is. So there’s a real opportunity for a smart grid, where we optimise how we consume energy, and hence we can generate…

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