Watt The Hack - Energy & AI Hackathon
Homes are becoming more electrified. Rooftop solar, batteries, EVs, smart devices and flexible demand are already changing how people use energy.
At the same time, the grid is becoming harder to balance. Weather, price swings, peak demand, and new loads like data centres make energy planning more complex than it used to be.
Watt The Hack turns those ideas into something people can see, code, and understand.
It helps participants learn that energy is not just about being green. It is about balancing cost, comfort, resilience, and real-world system limits.
Watt The Hack is a live AI and energy hackathon built around one simple idea: what happens in the home affects the grid, and what happens in the grid affects the home.
In one track, teams run households. In the other, teams run the city energy system that supports those households.
This is a practical event. People will build, test, and improve working systems during the program. The goal is to make energy trade-offs visible and hands-on: energy, money, comfort, and reliability.
Watt The Hack has two connected tracks.
Track 1: Smart Home Sprint
Teams manage individual homes. They do chores, respond to the people living in the house, buy upgrades, and write simple automation code.
Track 2: Grid Guardian
Teams manage the wider city energy system. They balance supply and demand, manage storage and infrastructure, and respond to weather and grid stress.
What makes the event interesting
The houses create real demand for the grid.
The grid changes the conditions the houses live under.
This lets participants learn at two levels at once: the home level and the systems level.