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The Company That Put Gas Pipelines and Résumés Under One Roof
Blackstone Technology Group spent decades learning where complicated operations break. Its answer is an odd but coherent pair: find the humans who can fix the system, then build the software that makes one stubborn industry run.
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.
Ampion, PBC
Ampion, PBC is a Boston-based public benefit corporation and software platform for community solar and distributed generation. Its enterprise technology handles subscriber acquisition, billing, revenue management, customer care, and sustainability reporting for solar asset owners, connecting households and businesses to local solar farms so they can lower electricity bills without rooftop installations or upfront costs. Ampion manages hundreds of megawatts across multiple U.S. states and has saved subscribers more than $42 million in electricity costs.
Emulate Energy
Emulate Energy is a Lund, Sweden cleantech company that builds white-label software turning everyday household devices - EV chargers, heat pumps, home batteries and solar inverters - into a coordinated, grid-ready fleet. Its platform lets utilities, retailers and grid operators connect, control and monetize distributed energy resources: cutting household bills, shaving grid peaks and unlocking flexibility-market revenue without asking customers to change tariffs or behaviour. Founded in 2020 on control-theory research from MIT and Lund University, Emulate runs live programs across Europe and the US.