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NRG Wants to Run the Power Plant - and Your Thermostat
NRG spent years becoming a retailer you might meet on an electricity bill. Now it is joining power plants, smart homes and flexible demand into one system - a bet that the winner in the next energy cycle will understand both sides of the meter.
VertexOne
The company most people have never heard of is quietly running the app, the bill and the payment page behind millions of power and water accounts. VertexOne sells utilities the one thing they rarely build well themselves: a modern customer experience.
KiWi New Energy
KiWi New Energy is a Taiwan- and Silicon Valley-based clean energy company building what it calls the operating system for global renewable energy. Rather than manufacturing more solar panels, KiWi focuses on the AI dispatch layer between generation and consumption: its AI-Driven Energy Datacenter (AI-EDC) matches clean supply to multi-site retail and SME demand in real time, aggregating fragmented buyers into virtual demand pools and using blockchain-certified renewable energy certificates to make green power traceable. Its deployments include a rare control-layer integration with Tesla Energy storage for FamilyMart convenience stores in Taiwan, plus customers like Decathlon and Wang Steak. Founded by serial energy entrepreneur Dr. Steve Huang, the company reached breakeven in 2025 and is expanding into Japan and the United States.