About Smart Home Energy
Smart Home Energy was founded in 2010 by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley to provide independent news, views and reviews about smart home energy saving products and technology to help you save money and cut carbon.
We are entirely independent and exist to help homeowners understand and chose the best energy saving products and smart home gadgets to help save money and reduce UK CO2 emissions.
Our vision is a world with a stable atmosphere, in which everyone has access to clean, affordable energy and ‘fuel poverty’ is history.
If you’re interested in smart homes, renewable energy and saving money on your bills, please help us spread the word about the best products on the market and get in touch if you have any questions at all, tips about saving energy, or think we should be promoting a new product which is not featured on this site.
About Oliver
Oliver has spent two decades working in renewable energy.
From 2005 to 2011 he worked at Solarcentury, where he ran the We Support Solar campaign — the public push that led to the introduction of the UK’s feed-in tariff, the policy that kicked off Britain’s domestic solar boom.
He went on to work with SolarAid, helping bring solar light and power to off-grid communities across Africa. Since then he’s consulted for renewable energy companies including Chelsfield Solar, Evo Energy, Footprint Zero, Ineco and Wise Energy.
Most recently, Oliver spent seven years at Vattenfall IDNO, helping grow the company from a startup until it was acquired by Eclipse — a subsidiary of Octopus Energy — in 2026.
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