# Maplewell Energy

> Maplewell Energy is a Boulder energy-technology company whose JANiiT platform forecasts, optimizes and controls batteries, solar, generators and flexible building loads. It sells to distributed-energy developers and operators, commercial and industrial facilities, and defense users that need peak-demand savings, grid-service revenue or resilient control when networks are unreliable. Its distinction is a cloud-to-edge architecture that joins AI forecasting with deterministic local control and an exclusive license to NREL's distributed OptGrid technology.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Boulder, United States
- **Founders:** Matthew Irvin (CEO and Co-Founder), Karin Irvin (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 5 employees in the supplied company record; the current public team page lists seven staff and senior advisors.
- **Products:** JANiiT Energy Management System, JANiiT Cloud, JANiiT Cloud Edge, JANiiT Controller and Metering, Battery Energy Storage Project Services
- **Notable:** Reported a 25% reduction in peak energy use in a two-site Parkland USA refrigeration and HVAC pilot in 2023; a projected 42% figure assumed added storage and was not reported as an achieved result., Won the Internet of Things category in the 2023 Product Awards presented by Products That Count with Mighty Capital and Capgemini., Secured an exclusive 2022 license to NREL's OptGrid technology, which NREL tested in simulations exceeding one million devices.

## Products & services

- **JANiiT Energy Management System** — A predictive-control platform for behind-the-meter, front-of-meter and virtual-power-plant applications. It forecasts demand, generation and market prices, then optimizes batteries, solar, backup generators and flexible loads.
- **JANiiT Cloud** — Cloud database, customer dashboard, portfolio monitoring, forecasting and optimization with API support for DERMS, ADMS and SCADA systems.
- **JANiiT Cloud Edge** — Optional on-site AI computing, local data storage and real-time inference for low-latency, data-restricted or low-bandwidth environments.
- **JANiiT Controller and Metering** — A deterministic local controller, revenue-grade meter and managed control network that can keep operating through a cloud or network outage.
- **Battery Energy Storage Project Services** — Simulation, feasibility, financial modeling, procurement, EMS integration, commissioning, ISO integration, SCADA support and predictive maintenance across the storage-project lifecycle.
- **Defense Energy Management** — Autonomous microgrid optimization and remote monitoring for shipboard, shoreside and mission-critical installations, including disrupted or air-gapped networks.

## Achievements

- Reported a 25% reduction in peak energy use in a two-site Parkland USA refrigeration and HVAC pilot in 2023; a projected 42% figure assumed added storage and was not reported as an achieved result.
- Won the Internet of Things category in the 2023 Product Awards presented by Products That Count with Mighty Capital and Capgemini.
- Secured an exclusive 2022 license to NREL's OptGrid technology, which NREL tested in simulations exceeding one million devices.
- Received a $250,000 Colorado Advanced Industries Early Stage Capital and Retention grant in 2022.
- Advanced from Navy SBIR Phase I work into Phase II development for shipboard and shoreside energy management.
- Joined Intel Liftoff in 2024 and reported a 25% forecasting-accuracy improvement in an Intel-hosted experiment using language-model techniques.
- Built a JANiiT deployment architecture spanning cloud, cloud edge and deterministic local control, with published controller execution below 40 milliseconds.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Intel published a Maplewell case study describing JANiiT's commercial-building use cases, Intel edge hardware and a reported 25% forecasting-accuracy improvement from a Liftoff experiment.
- **2024-09** — CEO Matt Irvin published an argument in pv magazine USA for demand-side flexibility as a response to tightening electricity supply and rising capacity prices.
- **2024-04** — Maplewell joined Intel Liftoff and outlined plans to use oneAPI, OpenVINO and Intel-optimized machine-learning frameworks for JANiiT's AI and edge roadmap.
- **2023-04** — Maplewell announced both the Parkland USA refrigeration pilot result and a virtual-power-plant partnership with Urban Electric Power.

## Links

- Website: https://www.maplewell.energy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maplewellenergy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maplewellenergy

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