Smart Homes: Energy & Water Solutions

<p><span>Uplight is a technology company that provides software solutions to help energy providers achieve their goals of decarbonization, grid resiliency, and cost reduction. Their platform connects energy consumers with power providers, enabling consumers to reduce their energy consumption and expenses. Uplight's solutions leverage data analysis, AI, and customer insights to create engaging experiences that drive behavioral changes among energy customers.</span></p>
<p><span>The company's software enables utilities to integrate, orchestrate, and monetize distributed energy resources, enhancing their ability to manage flexible capacity. Uplight's customer-centric approach aims to accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable energy future by compelling customers to make impactful changes.</span></p>
<p><span>Uplight acquired AutoGrid, a virtual power plant developer, in 2024. This acquisition combined AutoGrid's Demand Response Management System (DERMS) technology with Uplight's expertise in customer engagement, enabling utilities to bridge the gap between control rooms and customers.</span></p>
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Optimizing the future of energy with software solutions

Energy Optimization & Management Software

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    Uplight's demand response pre-enrollment options in Uplight marketplaces drive more engagement and enrollment, with Uplight&rsquo;s utility clients seeing three-to-five times greater enrollments compared to programs with marketing campaigns and bring-your-own-device enrollment only. 
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Motor partners with utilities to accelerate consumer adoption of electric vehicles. Motor engages customers through their utility to offer access to EV ownership, overcoming common barriers to adoption and ensuring both the economic and grid benefits of electrification.

Uplight is provider of end-to-end customer-centric technology solutions. Born from the merger of Tendril and Simple Energy, and the acquisitions of FirstFuel, EEme and EnergySavvy, Uplight is the provider of end-to-end customer-centric technology solutions dedicated solely to serving the energy ecosystem.

Since 5B’s inception in 2013 by solar engineers Chris McGrath and Eden Tehan, the company has been on a mission to transform the solar energy landscape. Proudly hailing from Australia, 5B specialises in the rapid expansion of large-scale solar deployment with the company’s innovative prefabricated, pre-wired ground mount technology.   Initially working on some of Australia's earliest large-scale solar projects, McGrath and Tehan envisioned a departure from conventional methods, reimagining the very basis of solar farm design and construction. This gave rise to 5B’s flagship technology: the 5B Maverick, an accordion-style prefabricated solar array that can be quickly deployed by a small crew. Representing a paradigm shift in the traditional deployment and construction of solar projects, 5B Maverick offers speed, efficiency, and reliability.   At the core of 5B’s ethos lies prefabrication, a philosophy aimed at streamlining processes by shifting tasks from the unpredictable field environment to a controlled factory setting. This approach not only improves efficiency but also mitigates risks associated with on-site construction, ensuring superior quality control and reducing the likelihood of issues such as faulty connections and dead modules.  Fuelled by a commitment to innovation, 5B is shaping the future of energy. By reengineering the solar supply chain from the ground up, the company is making clean energy more accessible and competitive than ever before, catalysing a global transition towards sustainable power solutions with over 140 project sites worldwide.  The company's name, 5B, is a reference to the almost infinite amount of energy potential in the 5 billion years of sunshine the earth has left. The name serves to urge stakeholders to contemplate how this boundless resource can be harnessed most effectively.   As 5B continues to expand its network of partners and deploy projects across the globe, the technology manufacturer remains steadfast in its commitment to being the safest, fastest, and most cost-effective solar array technology available to customers worldwide.

Fohat is a holding company focused on Energy Intelligence for the energy sector. We help to accelerate the Energy Transition by helping companies to connect to the best trading environments to buy energy at lower prices.

With more than 7,000 references across 70 countries, Fluence is committed to becoming the worldwide leader in decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions .Fluence brings together breakthrough water-treatment technologies and proven delivery platforms to optimize the water cycle for the 21st century. They provide the middle market with local, sustainable, and fast-to-deploy water and wastewater treatment and reuse solutions, empowering businesses and communities worldwide to make the most of their water resources.

DAYBACK is a power player focused on products for commercial and industrial customers (B2B2C). We are manufacturers of wind turbines for energy generation in the urban environment, we are owners of energy monitoring technology (SaaS) and we commercialize, design and integrate solar photovoltaic energy.

sPower is an independent power producer (IPP) which owns and/or operates more than 150 utility and distributed electrical generation systems across the US and the UK. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City with offices in San Francisco, Long Beach and New York City,  With 6.7GW between operating, construction and pipeline, sPower is actively buying select utility-scale renewable assets in virtually any stage of development in the United States.

AES provides affordable and reliable energy to customers around the world through its distribution businesses and thermal and renewable power generation facilities.  With more than 30 years of experience, diverse mix of generation and utility sources provides the strength and flexibility to adapt to local and regional market needs, maximize plant efficiency and deliver reliable, affordable electricity.

<div>  <p>    AES provides affordable and reliable energy to customers around the world through its distribution businesses and thermal and renewable power generation facilities.  With more than 30 years of experience, diverse mix of generation and utility sources provides the strength and flexibility to adapt to local and regional market needs, maximize plant efficiency and deliver reliable, affordable electricity.  </p></div>

AES-TotalEnergies JV gets $861M DoE loan guarantee for Puerto Rico solar projects

Established renewable energy technologies for a greener future

Current-gen renewables

Manufacture solar panels, inverters, and other equipment for both residential rooftops and utility-scale solar projects

Develop, operate, and maintain solar power plants, excluding solar+storage and community solar project developers and operators

Develop, operate, and maintain solar power plants along with BESS

Facilitate solar power generation through shared solar or solar garden projects and operate on a subscription-based model

Manufacture wind turbines, towers, blades, and other related systems for wind power generation

Develop and operate onshore wind power projects

Manufacture hydroelectric turbines and develop and operate hydropower plants

Develop and operate facilities to convert organic waste streams into renewable energy

Facilitate the buying and selling of renewable energy certificates, contracts, and credits between producers and consumers

Set-up and maintenance of renewable energy systems for residential, commercial, and industrial applications

Motor

Mitsubishi Corporation

Microsoft

Microsoft will use the around-the-clock renewable energy provided by AES to power its data centers located in Virginia.

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Companies that develop real-time energy usage and efficiency monitoring solutions and generate energy reports. Includes companies that offer demand management solutions to monetize excess capacity.

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