Introducing EnergyKit
EnergyKit provides a grid forecast for your app to help people choose when to use electricity by identifying times when there‘s relatively cleaner electricity on the grid.
Optimize home electricity usage with EnergyKit
Powered by Grid Forecast
Utilizing data sources that power Grid Forecast and Clean Energy Charging on iPhone, EnergyKit delivers a forecast for your app that’s personalized to each person‘s Home location, and based on various environmental and grid inputs.
Utility electricity rates
Electricity rates have a key influence on when people use electricity. A person‘s electricity rate plan information is incorporated into EnergyKit when they have connected to their utility account in the Home App and are on a time-of-use rate plan.
Optimize home electricity usage
EnergyKit is designed to help reduce or shift the two largest home electric loads – heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and electric vehicle (EV) charging.
Usage insights
Create valuable insights in your app — to help people understand the electricity consumption or runtime of their home devices, relative to cleaner energy periods and peak or off-peak cost periods.
Privacy preserving
Users’ Home app data, including the energy data that you provide through EnergyKit, is stored and synced across devices in a way that Apple can’t read. Users can delete their EnergyKit data at any time.
How EnergyKit works
The electricity that powers your local grid comes from different sources — such as renewable energy, like solar and wind, or fossil fuels, like coal and natural gas — and can change throughout the day. The EnergyKit forecast identifies cleaner times and less clean times to help your smart devices choose when to use electricity.
Cleaner times in EnergyKit guidance are currently based on forecasts of peak renewable energy generation and curtailment, as well as times when other relatively cleaner generators are responding to changes in electricity demand. Shifting load to these times can help reduce carbon emissions in the short term by using cleaner energy sources available on the grid today and in the longer term by shaping smart device usage to better match when renewable energy sources are generating.
Availability and requirements
Apps. EnergyKit is currently designed for use with EV charging and smart thermostat apps, and requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later.
Regions. EnergyKit is only available in the contiguous United States.
Attribution. When using and referring to EnergyKit in your apps, web apps, or websites, you’ll need to follow guidelines and requirements for attributing grid forecast data from Apple. Guidelines will be available later this fall.