Smarter electric heat

Heat your home with power the grid can't use yet.

Compute installed inside the buildings it heats — running on surplus electricity, turning it into affordable hot water. Productive when it runs, harmless when it stops.

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The Heat21 Node — charcoal heat-battery unit

The Heat21 Node

01 — How it works

From surplus power to warm water

Scotland pays wind farms to switch off when the grid can't carry their power. Heat21 puts that surplus to work: SHA-256 compute runs on a building's existing supply and captures essentially all the heat it makes.

Surplus wind
grid can't carry
The Node
SHA-256 · on-site
Heat battery
up to 90°C tank
Your home
warm on demand
Step 01

Power in

The Node runs on the building's existing electricity supply, drawing hardest when the grid has power it would otherwise pay to waste.

Step 02

Heat captured

A hydronic cold-plate captures 96.2% of the heat the hardware produces and moves it into a water-tank heat battery.

Step 03

Warmth on demand

The tank holds up to 90°C water, so even a flexing load delivers steady heating and hot water whenever the home calls for it.

02 — Why it works

Productive, flexible, harmless

Going electric is the obvious answer — but heat pumps won't fit many homes, and resistive heat is costly to run. Here, the hardware that heats the water also earns from computing, paying the cost down.

Productive

Every watt does useful work before it warms the tank. The compute pays for itself while it heats — instead of burning energy for nothing.

Flexible

The heat battery decouples heating from load, so the Node can flex with the grid. Aggregated, the fleet behaves as a Virtual Power Plant.

Harmless

When it stops, it simply stops. No combustion, no emissions on site, no waste heat vented to nowhere.

For the home

Product performance

96.2%

heat captured

up to 90°C

water output

For the grid

Why flexible demand matters

8.3 TWh

wind curtailed, 2024

£393m

paid to switch off

03 — Who it's for

Warmth where a heat pump can't go

Homes now

Lower-cost heat and hot water for properties where a heat pump won't fit, won't perform or won't pay, including homes moving away from biomass, oil or gas.

Hotels, multi-flat & district heating next

Constant hot-water demand makes shared buildings a natural fit for the same system, scaled to bigger tanks and higher daily use.

Farms, estates, greenhouses & light industry next

Useful heat for rural and commercial sites with space, power and demand, from plant rooms and workshops to growing heat and process heat.

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