There could be at least 13% more households with electric vehicles and solar panels on the low voltage electricity network than previously thought.

This was revealed in the Low Carbon Technologies (LCT) Detection Project, led by ElectraLink in partnership with IBM and funded by Western Power Distribution (WPD). It looked at six years’ of structured and freeform data using advanced analytics and machine learning and found indications of a combined total of 15,000 previously unknown electric vehicles and solar panels connected to WPD’s local low voltage electricity network.