Robin Hawkes

A chaos project to silence the heat pump haters? I live for this shit

One morning in March, I got a message: Greg (yup, CEO Greg) wants a public dashboard showing the realtime data from our fleet of Cosy heat pumps. Oh, and it needs to be live before the end of next week. It’s exactly this kind of pressure that I and my colleagues thrive under. Let’s do this! Here’s a window into the beautiful chaos that followed as we made the Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Fleet Performance Dashboard. I’m Robin and I lead the Data Visualisation team at Octopus. I’ve been working here for just over four years and I’ve been involved in a number of projects that you might have seen, such as Balance Forecast, Wasted Wind, and my personal GB Renewables Map. This one — time-sensitive, highly transparent and something no energy supplier has done before — was right up my street.