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Deploys are blocked for us, as our deploy needs to run a release_command. It really seems that this issue should have been foreseen and prevented, and is making my question the choice to rely on fly.io for a production environment.

Upgrading the power lines isn't the full answer, certainly some upgrades will be required, but the wires are designed for peak demand. EVs have flexibility, and can mostly be charged in non-peak times, drastically reducing the powerline and power station upgrades required.

This flexibility has to be managed, and there are many companies working on this. For example: https://ev.energy/

The post title misses the important "without investment and changes in charging habits". Most EVs can already be controlled to set charging preferences to match lower cost, off-peak charging overnight. However, this isn't the full solution as it can create secondary demand peaks. For example, if everyone in one region has an off-peak rate starting at midnight, you will get a step-change in demand at that time. Midnight onwards may also not be the lowest carbon time to charge as this will change every day as renewables are not predictable. In California right now, charging during the day would have lower emissions Source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO

Many people are already thinking about this problem, including https://ev.energy. We go one step further and actively control EVs and EV Chargers to match their charging to when the grid is most clean. This may be overnight, but it could also be during the daytime when solar generation is highest. It is better for the grid not to use simple peak/off-peak pricing, but instead create tariffs that reward flexibility and move the exact charging times to best suit the grid.

I would like an API which provides consumer electricity cost data globally. There is a huge amount of potential for internet connected energy consumers to optimise their usage against carbon emissions and energy costs. Carbon emissions are available for a lot of countries through APIs like https://app.electricitymaps.com/map and https://www.watttime.org/, but consumer energy costs is much harder to find. There are some APIs that give some pricing data for the purposes of comparing suppliers in competitive markets, but few of these give accurate time-of-use costs for energy. https://www.genability.com/signal/ covers the US and a few other markets quite well, but doesn't have complete and global coverage.

ev.energy | Senior Backend (Python/Django), Senior ReactNative, React Web, Platform Engineers, Lead Engineers and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy/careers

ev.energy is making electric vehicle charging greener, cheaper and simpler for everyone.

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world. Our users are across Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 100,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge, and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS, TypeScript and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

Small Robot Company have a robot called Dick which uses "Non-Chemical Weeding", i.e. they zap the weed to kill it, and it's root. They use other small robots to do the mapping and planting. I really like the idea of small, specialised robots for different tasks.

https://www.smallrobotcompany.com/weed-killing

ev.energy | Senior Backend (Python/Django), Charger Technicians, Senior ReactNative, Platform Engineers, Lead Engineers and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy/careers

ev.energy is making electric vehicle charging greener, cheaper and simpler for everyone.

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world. Our users are across Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 80,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge, and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS, TypeScript and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

ev.energy | Senior Backend (Python/Django), Charger Technicians, Senior ReactNative, Platform Engineers, Lead Engineers and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy/careers

ev.energy is making electric vehicle charging greener, cheaper and simpler for everyone.

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world. Our users are across Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 80,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge, and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS, TypeScript and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

ev.energy | Senior Backend (Python/Django), Charger Technicians, Senior ReactNative, and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy/careers

ev.energy enables consumers to charge their EVs in the most cost-effective and least carbon-intensive way possible!

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world, with users in Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 50,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

Ripple Energy (https://rippleenergy.com/) in the UK are offering exactly that, but with Wind Farms. You buy into a cooperative that builds and owns the wind farm. The generated energy is sold back to your utility and taken off you energy bill. It's very much like having local renewable generation, but can be used by those like me who live in an apartment and have no way to install solar.

ev.energy | Senior Backend (Python/Django), Charger Technician, Engineering Managers, Senior ReactNative, and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy/careers

ev.energy enables consumers to charge their EVs in the most cost-effective and least carbon-intensive way possible!

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world, with users in Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 50,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

ev.energy | Senior ReactJS, Senior ReactNative, Senior Backend (Python/Django), Technician, Engineering Manager, and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy

ev.energy enables consumers to charge their EVs in the most cost-effective and least carbon-intense way possible, whilst saving them money! We partner with energy companies such as Silicon Valley Clean Energy, ESB and VW (Elli) to deliver tariffs and products which integrate smartly with electric vehicles and their chargers.

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world, with users in Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 50,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

ev.energy | Senior ReactJS, Senior ReactNative, Senior Backend (Python), Technician, Engineering Manager, and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy

ev.energy enables consumers to charge their EVs in the most cost-effective and least carbon-intense way possible, whilst saving them money! We partner with energy companies such as Silicon Valley Clean Energy, ESB and VW (Elli) to deliver tariffs and products which integrate smartly with electric vehicles and their chargers.

We’re a small team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world, with users in Europe, North America and Australia.

Since we started three years ago, we’ve grown to 50,000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved many tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python3, React Native, React JS and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/ and mention that you saw this post on HN.

ev.energy| Senior Frontend, Senior Backend, Full Stack, Data Engineer, and more | Remote | Full-time | https://ev.energy

ev.energy enables consumers to charge their EVs in the most cost-effective and least carbon-intense way possible, whilst saving them money! We partner with energy companies such as Igloo Energy, Rolec Services and ESB to deliver tariffs and products which integrate smartly with electric vehicles and their chargers.

We’re a small and agile team, but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world with pilots ongoing in Europe and North America.

Since we were incorporated two years ago, we’ve grown from 0 to 15000+ users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved over 25 tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge and were named “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons 2019.

We are hiring across our technology stack which includes Django, Python 3, React Native, React JS and AWS. If you are interested, see the full list of roles and apply at https://ev.energy/careers/

Not exactly what you are asking for but https://leaddev.com/ and their slack channel are very good.

There are apps that can automate this whole process for you, monitoring the charge your cars needs each night and the dynamic energy prices either on an Economy 7 or Agile tariff and then controls the charging to optimise the price. If you're car needs less charge than your off peak rate time period then it will charge at the lowest carbon times. https://ev.energy

ev.energy | Senior Python Engineer, Senior React & React Native Engineer, Python Engineer | London, UK | ONSITE (some flexibility) | https://ev.energy/careers/

ev.energy is helping consumers charge their EVs in the most cost effective and least carbon intense way possible, whilst saving them money! We partner with energy companies such as Igloo Energy, Rolec Services and ESB to deliver tariffs and products which integrate smartly with electric vehicle and their chargers.

We’re a small and nimble team but we already serve electricity companies and their customers across the world with pilots ongoing in Europe and North America.

Since we were incorporated 18 months ago, we’ve grown from 0 to a large number of users, raised a funding round, collaborated with 15+ energy companies and saved over 5 tonnes of CO2. We were part of Microsoft’s first AI for Good cohort, recently won the EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge and were named the “Best Energy Startup in the World” by Free Electrons!

Our backend platform is mostly Django with a Postgres database. We use some common Python & Django libraries such as Numpy and Django Rest Framework as well as Django’s built in testing framework and Selenium. All our native apps are built using React Native using common React Native libraries such as Redux and Sagas for state management. All of our infrastructure is hosted in AWS and deployments are managed with Ansible and CloudFormation.

Find more details about each role at https://ev.energy/careers/

There is an example of this at the Lumawan Copper Mine in Zambia. It's trucks are powered by overhead cables and electric motors whilst driving up the fixed ramps, It then switches to diesel when moving around away from the ramp. What is really interesting is that this not only reduces fuel use but allows them to move up the ramps much more quickly and improves productivity of the mine.

GemFair | React Native Developer | London | ONSITE | gemfair.com

GemFair is a digital solution which connects artisanal miners to global markets. GemFair is a London based, dynamic and fast-growing startup which is financially backed by the De Beers Group, making it well positioned to become a game changer in a market primed for innovation.

GemFair has been operating for a year, piloting the first version of its digital solution in Sierra Leone. Its digital solution can be used to on-board and manage member mines and then allow the logging and selling of ethical sourced diamonds to GemFair. The users of the technology are the miners who own and operate the mines, the GemFair team who manage the membership and the expert diamond buyers who ensure a fair price is paid. You will join a 4-person product team to continue development of the products based on the learnings from the pilot and help GemFair scale.

We are looking for a React Native Developer to join the team to help grow our product, if you want more details: https://gemfair.com/#join_us

BBOXX | Python Developers, Lead Python Developers, Frontend Angular Developer, Mechanical Design Engineers, Support Engineers | London | ONSITE, http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/

BBOXX is a company developing proven solutions to provide affordable, clean energy to off-grid communities in Africa, so far we have over 120,00 households accessing electricity through our systems. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. Our market leading products and appliances allow people to gain access to energy for an affordable monthly fee. Our Pulse platform is used to futher reduce to cost of servicing a distbuted solar generation by utlising the latest in IoT, Machine-learning, mobile payment and data analytics technologies. Our ground-breaking financing structure has brought off-grid solar into the World’s financial markets. Whilst our human centred and system design approach to our retail business ensures that the BBOXX ecosystem is poised to massively scale during 2018.

We are looking for Python Developers, Lead Python Developers, Frontend Angular Developers and Mechanical Design Engineers to join the Engineering team in London. To find out more go to http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/ and in your application mention you saw this post.

Yes, the hardware product is designed by our team in London. It is connected over a GSM conenction to a python backend which integrates with our customer managment system which manages installs, payments and customer service. All of these systems are designed and developed here, often based on existing open-source solutions to best fit the customer need.

BBOXX | Python Developer, Lead Python Developer, Frontend Angular Developer, Mechanical Design Engineers | London | ONSITE, http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/

BBOXX is a company developing proven solutions to provide affordable, clean energy to off-grid communities in Africa, so far we have over 120,00 households accessing electricity through our systems. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. Our market leading products and appliances coupled with our SMART Solar platform bring machine-learning and customer experience optimisation to rural Africa. Our ground-breaking financing structure has brought off-grid solar into the World’s financial markets. Whilst our human centred and system design approach to our retail business ensures that the BBOXX ecosystem is poised to massively scale during 2018.

We are looking for Python Developers, Lead Python Developers, Frontend Angular Developers and Mechanical Design Engineers to join the Engineering team in London. To find out more go to http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/ and in your application mention you saw this post.

There is a lot of work going on using tech to bring energy access to the 1.2 billion people currently living without grid access.

BBOXX are using the combination of developments in renewable, battery tech, big data and IoT to bring down the cost of offering solar energy to people living in the most rural areas of the world. Briefly, we use the above technology to enable a pay-as-you-go solution to energy whereby a customer can sign up for a small and affordable down-payment. We will then dispatch one of our installers to fit the system in the customers house and teach them about how it works. We will then remotely monitor the system over the GSM network to ensure it is providing a reliable source of energy. The customer then pays weekly or monthly using mobile money to keep the system enabled. The data-side of what we do enable us to prove to investors and financiers that we understand our customers and can control repayment rates which means we can continue to grow the number of systems we have deployed.

We currently have most of our units deployed in Rwanda and Kenya through our fully owned retail network but more recently have launched partnerships in Nigeria, Cameroon and Pakistan.

BBOXX | Full Stack Developer, Frontend Developer, Embedded Systems Engineer, Python Developer | London | ONSITE, http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/

BBOXX is a venture backed company developing solutions to provide affordable, clean energy to off-grid communities in Africa. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. Our market leading products and appliances coupled with our SMART Solar platform bring machine-learning and customer experience optimisation to rural Africa. Our ground-breaking financing structure has brought off-grid solar into the World’s financial markets. Whilst our human centred and system design approach to our retail business ensures that the BBOXX ecosystem is poised to massively scale during 2017.

We are looking for Full Stack, Frontend (AngularJS) and Python Developers as well as Embedded Systems Engineers to join the Engineering team in London. To find out more go to http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/ and in your application mention you saw this post.

BBOXX | Data Engineer, Frontend Developer, Embedded Systems Engineer, Python Developer | London | ONSITE, http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/

BBOXX is a venture backed company developing solutions to provide affordable, clean energy to off-grid communities in Africa. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. Our market leading products and appliances coupled with our SMART Solar platform bring machine-learning and customer experience optimisation to rural Africa. Our ground-breaking financing structure has brought off-grid solar into the World’s financial markets. Whilst our human centred and system design approach to our retail business ensures that the BBOXX ecosystem is poised to massively scale during 2017.

We are looking for Data Engineer, Frontend (AngularJS) Developers, Python Developers and Embedded Systems Engineers to join the Engineering team in London. To find out more go to http://bboxx.co.uk/careers/ and in your application mention you saw this post.

BBOXX | Embedded Systems Engineer, Python Developer | London | ONSITE, bboxx.co.uk/careers/

BBOXX is a venture backed company developing solutions to provide affordable, clean energy to off-grid communities in Africa. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. Our market leading products and appliances coupled with our SMART Solar platform bring machine-learning and customer experience optimisation to rural Africa. Our ground-breaking financing structure has brought off-grid solar into the World’s financial markets. Whilst our human centred and system design approach to our retail business ensures that the BBOXX eco-system is poised to massively scale during 2017.

We are looking for both Python Developers and Embedded Systems Engineers to join the Engineering team in London. To find out more go to bboxx.co.uk/careers/ and in your application mention you saw this post.

This sounds very similar to a programme in London called Entrepreneur First where they recruit individuals based on their technical skills and then form ideas and teams during the programme.

Canonical have been doing work on this with Ubuntu Core http://www.ubuntu.com/internet-of-things

What hosting services would you recommend when targeting users in East Africa? Currently I use AWS's European regions but the latency to these is high.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by non-GSM comms stack but if you want comms for IoT like devices then LoRa could be of interest. I don't know of any large scale networks active outside of Europe and the US but it's quite feasible to operate a base station yourself.

If your looking for something targeted at consumers then Facebook have started a large scale wifi project in Kampala: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35000544