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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Power Grid startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Power Grid industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Power Grid Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Skyqraft
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Skyqraft provides autonomous aerial infrastructure inspection.
VoltaGrid
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VoltaGrid is ushering in a new era of power generation and permanently changing the landscape of mobile power.
Camus Energy
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Camus Energy is building an open source Grid Management Software as a Service (GMaaS) platform to enable the future DSO. Providing grid operators and load serving entities with advanced situational awareness, insight, and control, Camus’s platform empowers industry leaders to safely and strategically manage a rapidly changing grid environment.
Camus’ founders and partners are leveraging experiences from other industries – including the founders’ pioneering work building Google’s global traffic management platform – to address new opportunities on distribution grids.. .
Krafthem
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Developing knowledge and AI to efficiently deploy electricity flexibility
ChargeNet Stations
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EV Fast Chargers in prime restaurant and retail locations are tough to come by, and are ever increasingly vital to supporting the accelerated growth of EVs on the roads. Right now, they’re not located in areas where EVs will use them the most.
Charging hardware can be costly to develop, purchase, install and maintain, and today’s chargers are still largely too slow to support mid- to long-distance travel. Meanwhile, charging operators are dependent on razor thin margins, bartering kWh between consumers and grid operators, while grid operators are ill-prepared for the peak surges EV charging can create.
This results in some of the dirtiest and most expensive, power being brought to bear, putting us at a greater risk of brownouts and blackouts thus making resiliency a necessity. Solar by itself is great and has demonstrated to provide positive long-term returns for some time, but without optimization from battery storage, and other sources, many of its potential benefits can be lost.
Meanwhile, restaurant and retail customers are increasingly looking for safe ways to continue traveling while enjoying the brands they love, without necessarily having to wait in line inside the physical location. ChargeNet’s patent-pending cloud based IP solves all these problems, and more, by optimizing and stacking these value streams into one consolidated solution built to scale for the EV and clean energy revolution, while maximizing returns for customers, partners and investors.
Our competitive moat is that we use point-of-sale data to predict how long an EV driver will be at the charger and optimize charging arrays, solar, and energy storage to provide maximum returns by increasing operational efficiency.. .
EpinovaTech
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EpinovaTech is an electronics company that specializes in manufacturing electronics devices. The company focuses on a new generation of power conversion technology using Gallium Nitride (GaN).
It offers fast charging solutions. EpinovaTech was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Skane Lan, Sweden..
Black Start, LLC
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Black Start, LLC is an industrial contractor with a specialization of combined cycle power plant support. We provide multi-discipline technicians for industrial start-up, commissioning, and outage field services.
Our personnel are field capable and can be utilized for turn-key projects, SME consultant services, and project management. We are a veteran owned business and based in the Pacific Northwest.
Please visit our website for more information.. .
Adi+Bolga
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Adi+Bolga is a platform using the power of technology
Noteworthy AI
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Climate change creates new risks for electric utilities. From more frequent and intense storms to droughts that create wildfire-friendly conditions, it’s now more critical than ever for these companies to enact mitigation measures that account for these risks.
One mitigation is the proactive inspection and inventory of grid assets at-scale, usually by piloting aerial drone missions to collect imagery and video on each asset. While these methods have proven to increase both grid safety and resiliency, most are employed on the transmission grid but not on the distribution grid.
This is because, compared to transmission grid assets, distribution grid assets are too numerous, too geographically dispersed, are often located in densely populated areas, and the aerial view is often obscured by vegetation for much of the year. This makes piloting drone inspection missions over distribution grid assets extremely difficult.
Yet, 90% of power outages occur on the distribution grid and there are cases of faulty distribution grid equipment sparking wildfires, such as the recent Silverado Fire in Southern California. Noteworthy AI solves this problem by ensuring that distribution grid assets are adequately inspected and monitored.
Our solution combines hardware at the Edge and software in the Cloud to help electric utilities inspect and inventory distribution grid assets at scale. Our Edge hardware mounts directly on electric utility fleet vehicles (e.g.
repair trucks) and uses proprietary computer vision to inspect and inventory distribution poles and their components with no impact on crew duties. Results are sent to our Cloud software in real-time.
BeChained
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Energy Data-As-A-Service platform to enable Consumers & Utilities to operate in Electric Demand Management Market
Emrod
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Emrod is opening up the world’s access to power by using tele-energy technology to transmit energy wirelessly over many kilometres/miles.
Photonicity
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We are developing a power transfer technology (wireless or wired) that is a power solution for remote vehicles operating in highly challenging environments (long-range or severe pressure or temperature or radiation) for extended periods. Our key differentiation is that the tech is based on lasers versus other forms of energy.
This solution will unlock unprecedented values for our customers.. .
EnergyExpert
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What is EnergyExpert? A knowledge platform that provides market intelligence and learning, exclusive to the Energy industry. We support Energy industry companies to find digital solutions suited to their operations.
How does EnergyExpert work? Users access EnergyExpert through a secure portal, where they can directly search for and discover digital solutions relevant to their operations. For each solution, employees can access related learning content such as videos, reports, and courses.
Let’s take an example: An oil & gas operator with offshore facilities can find all digital solutions related to remote equipment surveillance. The operator’s employees can then learn more about remote surveillance solutions through videos and reports, and even find appropriate training.
Which sectors does EnergyExpert cover? We cover the Oil & Gas, Power, & Renewable Energy sectors, and any provider of Digital Solutions to these sectors. Who is EnergyExpert designed for? EnergyExpert is designed for companies (operators, national & international companies, marketers, traders, tech developers, …), institutions (training & course providers, research centres, knowledge houses, educational institutions, …), and independent professionals.
How can I sign up! A free trial can be requested on energyexpert.mePlatform go-live is January 2020.. .
RF Meters
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Smart metering solution using wireless tech.
Mavericks Renewable Energy
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Renewable Energy Finance and Development Smart MicroGrid and Smart Energy Infrastructure
United Saud Energy
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United Saud Energy(USE) operates in the renewable energy market specializing in solar energy development. USE identifies potential sites, develops them through planning, and then arranges finance with partner investors.
The company is able to offset the high initial capital costs associated with renewable generation by taking advantage of government tariffs and incentives and then works with internationally renowned investment funds to raise the capital required to develop a project. Capital investment in the industry drives innovation and spurs technological advancement which in turn drives down prices making more green energy projects financially viable in the future.
USE’s team of specialists are involved throughout every phase of the project including site selection and on-site-survey, project development and design, grid connection and planning applications, to project financing, construction, installation and finally ongoing maintenance. A project is selected for development only if it meets USE’s strict development guidelines.
The team then work closely with trusted suppliers and manufacturers and always hires recognized and respected local contractors. The company owns and operates the renewable projects that it develops.
Whilst the core business is centered on both land and rooftop projects the company constantly evaluates potential markets and new technologies. The Directors work hard to establish new business relationships as the renewable energy market continues to expand offering new opportunities such as carports, battery storage, and floaties.
USE is currently identifying other opportunities within the renewable energy sector. Consequently, USE has developed a significant pipeline of project opportunities throughout the Bangladesh of which help reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels and create a greener and cleaner environment and planet..
