Energy Innovation Series features

Energy Providers

  • Clean energy provider

    NRG Energy’s diversified renewable energy portfolio results in cleaner and smarter options for their customers.

  • CPS workers

    Community-owned utility

    CPS Energy is the country’s largest municipally-owned utility, providing electric and gas service to more than 730,000 customers.

  • Sparking Solar in Texas

    Sparking Solar in Texas

    Green Mountain Energy's SolarSPARC product allows customers to reap the benefits of solar energy without incurring the upfront cost of a solar installation.

Renewable Energy

  • Fuel cell technology

    Bloom Energy’s Bloom Box is made up of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which efficiently and electrochemically convert fuel into low-carbon, baseload electricity.

Energy Financing

  • SolarCity

    Solar financing

    SolarCity’s project SolarStrong aims to make clean energy affordable for U.S. military housing communities across the country.

  • Building efficiency financing

    SCIenergy’s MESA service is an innovative combination of cloud-based energy management and energy efficiency financing that reduces energy use at commercial buildings and aligns the financial incentives for building owners and tenants.

  • Renewable energy financing innovation

    Mosaic’s "crowd-investing" concept gives people the opportunity to invest in a clean, low-carbon energy economy.

Big Data

  • Data analytics

    Data analytics solutions help utilities manage new streams of energy data by “fusing” them with other big data sets.

  • Cloud platform

    Tendril Connect is an open standards-based cloud platform that connects utilities, homes, applications and devices to realize the opportunities unlocked by new, smarter grids.

  • Green Button Initiative

    An industry response to the White House call for energy customers to be able to access their own energy data.

  • Social networking

    Honest Buildings is allowing customers, developers and other real estate professionals to evaluate building performance and share opinions, best practices and endorsements.

  • CPS workers

    Building interaction and reimaging

    E7 Studios and the Los Angeles Community College District pull students into a first of its kind data-driven redevelopment effort.

  • Energy analytics innovation

    FirstFuel Software’s analytics platform brings data magic and cost savings to big energy spenders.

  • Gas leak detection

    Picarro Surveyor’s highly-sensitive, mobile technology helps detect gas leaks along the natural gas supply chain.

Smart Grid

  • Energy storage

    Energy storage, combined with digital power management, instantly adjusts for imbalances in the electric grid for a steady flow of energy.

  • Smart grid consortium

    Pecan Street is leading a team of researchers from The University of Texas, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Environmental Defense Fund to develop and test an integrated clean energy smart grid of tomorrow in the homes of today.

  • Consumer electronics

    Nest’s Learning Thermostat is a sleek, Wi-Fi-connected, intelligent climate control devise that learns – and mimics – its owner's heating and cooling preferences.

  • Consert's energy management solution

    Home energy management

    Consert’s Energy Management Solution helps customers save energy and money without any loss of comfort or control, and allows utilities to manage peak demand more efficiently.

  • Demand management

    REGEN Energy’s Swarm Energy Management technology brings the intelligence and efficiency of a working beehive to energy-consuming loads on the electric grid, producing up to 30 percent in energy savings.

Electric Vehicles

  • A car leaving a Better Place battery switching station

    Interchangeable EV battery

    Better Place is installing EV charging station infrastructure and battery switching stations for electric vehicles around the globe.

  • EV charging

    Evatran’s Plugless Power EV charging system provides wireless charging for EV owners, making “refueling” as easy as parking.

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