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Andrew Mears and the power of a small connection
A SIM card in a remote solar system helped shape the idea behind SwitchDin. Andrew Mears’s route from BHP apprentice to energy founder has been a continuing search for ways to make useful technology work for people.
Himanshu Saxena and the nine-year journey of a power line
From chemical engineering to energy investing, Himanshu Saxena has built a career around the connections that make infrastructure work. Ten West Link offers a 125-mile illustration of the patience involved.
Matt Jamieson and the value of coming home
He returned to Six Nations to bring his children closer to their culture. His work since then has helped put the community on the ownership side of Ontario’s energy business.
Manan Thakkar and the hours after sunset
From carbon consulting to solar parks, Manan Thakkar has helped build Prozeal around the energy needs of industry. His next challenge begins when the panels stop producing.
Evotrex puts a power station behind your pickup
The PG5 pairs electric camping with a gasoline safety net. Starting at $119,990, Evotrex is betting that travelers will pay to take their comforts farther from the plug.
Monalee made solar instant. Then came the roof.
A ten-second solar proposal was the easy part. Monalee’s reinvention as Artemis reveals what happens when a digital checkout meets the stubborn business of building things.
enSights puts a price on solar's quiet failures
A solar farm can look busy while its business quietly loses money. enSights connects equipment data, repair work, and financial performance so operators can see what a fault actually costs.
Ampcontrol gets trucks charging before the grid catches up
Electric trucks have places to be. Ampcontrol coordinates chargers, batteries and departure times so fleets can work within the power they have - and spend less doing it.
Branch Energy puts your parking space to work
A battery beside a Texas business can earn its keep on the grid. Branch Energy turns that small patch of land into lower electricity bills and backup power - then pays for the equipment itself.
EnergyHub is building a power plant in your thermostat
The Brooklyn software company turns thermostats, batteries and electric cars into capacity utilities can call on. Its revealing lesson: a useful gadget becomes valuable infrastructure when enough people agree to use it together.
Savant taught the house to choose what stays on
The company that put luxury homes on an app has moved into the electrical panel. Its next proposition is practical: when power is scarce, your house should know what matters.
PCI Energy Solutions finds the money hiding in the power bill
A $1.2 million billing recovery reveals the appeal of PCI Energy Solutions: software that connects the power plant, the trading desk and the final invoice. Its next chapter is a $1.4 billion acquisition agreement with Mitsubishi Electric.
PowerFlex knows your car can wait
A Caltech parking garage supplied the clue: a parked car has time to spare. PowerFlex turned that time into a business connecting EV chargers, solar panels, and batteries - with fewer expensive demands on the grid.
EnergySage puts solar sales pitches side by side
Buying solar means comparing equipment, financing and promises about the next 25 years. EnergySage built a business by putting those promises on the same page - and now wants to do the same for the rest of the electric home.
Baker Electric Bought a $4,000 Shop. Then It Rewired Who Owns It.
From cruise-ship shore power to desert batteries, Baker Electric builds the connections behind California’s energy ambitions. Its own big connection is between the people doing the work and the people who own the business.
Kevin Berkemeyer Is Turning Every Building Into an Energy Decision
The Station A co-founder spent years watching viable clean-energy projects stall in spreadsheets and sales cycles. His answer is a marketplace built around a deceptively simple input: an address.
Jesse Gronner Took a Temp Job. Then He Spent 25 Years Rewriting the Grid.
A college graduate headed west by way of national parks, landed in an energy office as a temp, and stayed for the industry’s long conversion. Now Jesse Gronner is betting that clean power runs on turbines, patient capital, and something harder to engineer: trust.
Gregory Green Is Financing the Grid’s Waiting Game
The Australian dealmaker survived a bank collapse, helped build and sell a renewable-gas platform, and now wants batteries to become ordinary infrastructure in Austria. His bet is less about chemistry than patience, permits and bankable cash flows.
Matthew Kozey Read the Rulebook - Then Built a Solar Company Around It
The lawyer-turned-developer learned that solar runs on statutes, queues and trust as much as sunshine. At Arena Renewables, that education became a near-1 GW pipeline and an acquisition before the company’s third anniversary.
Longroad Energy Stopped Flipping Solar Farms - and Bet Billions on the Boring Part
The Boston renewable-energy builder discovered that the valuable part was not merely finishing projects. It was owning the machines, contracts and operational headaches for decades.
Triple Oak Power’s 8-Gigawatt Bet: Turn the Messy Middle of Clean Energy Into Something Banks Can Back
Triple Oak Power does not sell turbines. It sells uncertainty reduction - the patient work that turns wind, land, grid access and local consent into financeable power projects.
The company selling solar the way Netflix sells movies: no download, just a monthly bill
Rooftop solar has always been sold like a mortgage: big money down, decades of commitment. Terra Energy sells it like a phone plan instead - $0 upfront, a three-year term, and up to half off the power bill from day one.
Lancium Bet on Bitcoin’s Power Problem. AI Made the Grid Its Product
Lancium started by teaching Bitcoin mines when to switch off. A delayed rollout and the AI power crunch turned that clever software idea into something much bigger: the land, wires and energy system beneath gigawatt-scale computing.
The Charger Company That Quietly Became an Energy Company
Anker started by selling a better phone charger on Amazon. Fourteen years later it is putting battery walls, robot vacuums, and solar systems in homes across 100-plus countries - and betting its next act is energy, not accessories.
The Henderson Company Betting Your Roof, Your Locks and Your Light Switch Belong on One App
Solar panels, door cameras, thermostats and monitored alarms - most homeowners buy them from four different companies. LivSmart's pitch is that they should have bought them from one.
The Solar Company That Bet on the Buildings Everyone Else Skipped
Isaac Baker and Ben Underwood built a solar company around the customers the industry finds too poor or too complicated. Nearly a decade in, the affordable-housing rooftops are paying them back.
The Solar Team That Builds to Sell, Not to Hold
Three industry veterans bet that community solar's real money is in development, not ownership. Two and a half years later, Headwater Energy bought the whole pipeline.
Maplewell Wants Your Building to Act Like a Battery - Before the Grid Sends the Bill
The Boulder startup is teaching batteries, refrigerators and microgrids to anticipate the expensive hour. Its pitch is simple: make demand flexible before building more supply.
Canopy Power Wants to Turn Every Diesel Island Into Its Own Power Plant
The Singapore engineering company has built a business around the places conventional solar developers tend to avoid - remote islands, awkward logistics and power systems where failure is not an option.
Gridmatic Wants to Turn the Power Grid Into a Forecasting Problem
The former Google engineer behind Gridmatic is applying search-ad automation to a harder auction: electricity. The company now trades across all seven major U.S. power markets, operates batteries in Texas and California, and sells energy to businesses that need cost certainty without giving up cleaner power.