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OATI and the art of keeping the lights on
Solar panels make electricity. Batteries store it. OATI handles the awkward part: getting thousands of separate decisions to work together.
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.
Terry Rohrer Spent a Career Teaching the Grid to Listen
From enterprise software to farm pumps and smart thermostats, the Ohio technologist built a career around making scattered machines behave like one dependable power plant.
Connected Energy Outlived Its First Big Bet - Then Turned 4,500 Farm Pumps Into a Virtual Power Plant
A Pittsburgh smart-grid company survived the collapse of its original broadband thesis by learning to control the least glamorous machines on the grid. Its reward: a utility software business built around farm pumps, real-time measurement and a newly acquired second act inside CLEAResult.
SwitchDin
SwitchDin is a Newcastle, Australia-based energy technology company that builds software and edge hardware to make distributed energy resources (DER) - rooftop solar, home and grid batteries, EV chargers and controllable loads - visible, controllable and orchestrable at scale. Its Stormcloud cloud platform and Droplet edge controllers create a common, vendor-neutral language across different brands of inverters and batteries, letting utilities, retailers and network operators run microgrids, virtual power plants and flexible-export programs. Founded in 2014 by Dr Andrew Mears, the company works with major Australian utilities including Horizon Power, Ausgrid, AGL, Origin and Western Power, and helped deliver a world-first renewable-only microgrid run in Onslow, WA.