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Axle Energy
Company blog · axle.energy/blog · on HN as archydebbusinesseconomics
Axle Energy is the company blog at axle.energy, writing about business and economics. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Stabilising grid frequency with domestic batteries”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Axle Energy as a startup that pays for battery charging and discharging, and one comment links the site as an example. The comments do not discuss its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Connect distributed energy assets to electricity markets. Cut costs, cut carbon, create revenue via a single API integration.
Most-linked posts?
- Stabilising grid frequency with domestic batteries2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-28
What Hacker News says?
Mike_hearn's comment was grey but was correct: phase following is indeed done through software in the inverter. Phase matching is still required, wherever the phase difference is not zero there is a deadweight loss of power as heat. Currently the main driver of battery deployments is not so much energy price time arbitrage as "fast frequency fresponse": you can get paid for providing battery stabilization to the gri…
Comment linking /blog/frequency
on “Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal”Submitted Britain's power prices hit historic summer high as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAxle Energy // axle.energy // Onsite London, UK We build software to run decarbonized electricity grids. Our platform controls vehicle charging, heating systems, and home batteries, adjusting their usage in line with the needs of the grid. We control hundreds of thousands of energy assets across the UK, monetizing the demand flexibility we create in electricity markets. We're growing rapidly, backed by Accel, and lo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted Stabilising grid frequency with domestic batteries as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If you had a big enough battery, could you sell electricity back to the grid later? Get paid to charge the battery, get paid to discharge the battery? Yes, some people do this. There's even a startup built around the idea: https://www.axle.energy/
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on “Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026”