Schneider Electric provides digital transformation in energy management and automation. Their digital transformation by integrating processes, energy technologies, connecting products, controls, and software services. Their products include low-voltage products, systems, grid automation, building automation, energy storage, cooling, and racks.

Schneider Electric

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.

Huck Capital is a private equity firm that invests in energy companies.

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Coatue is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets globally focusing on investments in technology, media, and telecommunications in addition to other sectors. It employs a long or short strategy to make its investments.

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Uplight

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.

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.

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Uplight is a technology company that partners with energy providers to facilitate the transition to a decarbonized future. The company offers a suite of software solutions designed to connect energy customers to power providers' decarbonization goals while helping customers reduce energy consumption and costs. Uplight's platform creates a seamless journey to accelerate decarbonization, improve grid resiliency, and reduce operating costs for energy providers.

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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.
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.
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.

Swell Energy is a provider of virtual power plant (VPP) programs that aggregate and optimize distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar and battery storage systems. The company's GridAmp software platform utilizes AI and machine learning to coordinate these DERs across the grid, intelligently meeting fluctuating energy demand. This helps utilities deliver cleaner and more reliable energy to customers while reducing dependence on fossil fuel peaker plants.
Swell partners with utilities, customers, and third-party service providers to create VPPs. Through these programs, customers receive bill savings, compensation (GridRevenue), and enhanced energy security. In return, their solar-powered batteries are integrated into a network that supports grid reliability, stability, and potential cost reductions for utilities.
As of November 2022, Swell had contracted 600 MWh of VPPs across 26,000 energy storage systems in homes and businesses throughout the US. These VPPs provide grid services in utility territories like Hawaii, California, and New York. In Hawaii, Swell's 80 MW VPP helps the utility maximize wind energy utilization by storing excess wind power in customer batteries.
In December 2022, Swell partnered with Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to launch a residential VPP program aiming for 20 MWh and 10 MW of renewable capacity initially, with potential to scale up to 54 MWh and 27 MW.
In February 2024, Swell acquired residential and commercial solar installer Renu Energy Solutions, expanding its footprint across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic markets. The combined company aims to drive innovation and provide tailored clean energy solutions through Renu's project development capabilities and Swell's financing and VPP technology.

Swell Energy

ZOLA Electric is a leading emerging market energy technology company that aims to eradicate energy inequality globally. The company's roots trace back to Tanzania, where its founders observed communities lacking access to reliable and affordable energy sources, relying instead on dirty, expensive, and difficult-to-manage forms of energy like diesel, kerosene, and lead-acid batteries.Over a decade ago, ZOLA began by installing smart, connected lithium-ion batteries and solar systems to power basic energy needs such as lighting for rural communities. This approach of deploying networked, connected devices has driven the energy transition in emerging markets. Today, ZOLA has developed the world's first enterprise technology platform, purpose-built for energy access markets, combining a family of products controlled by a single operating system, ZOLA Vision.ZOLA's technology platform enables community-level electrification by facilitating localized solar energy production and providing smart technology with remote management tools. The platform is designed to deliver reliable, affordable, and clean power to the 3 billion people and hundreds of millions of businesses globally that lack access to it.Since its inception in Tanzania, ZOLA has expanded its operations to 10 countries across four continents, delivering affordable, reliable, and clean energy to over 2 million people, along with numerous schools, clinics, and businesses. In December 2022, the company launched its platform in Haiti, partnering with local renewable energy pioneer Haiti Green Solutions to address the country's energy crisis. This marked ZOLA's first market entry into North America.In November 2022, ZOLA commissioned a 120 kWp distributed solar mini-grid system in the Nyagatare district of Rwanda, providing power to over 1,000 homes, businesses, and institutions in the villages of Gakagati I and II. The project, developed using ZOLA's modular INFINITY technology, received support from organizations like Facebook (now Meta), the Shell Foundation, USID, and Endev.

Zola Electric

1KOMMA5° is a carbon-neutral energy systems provider based in Hamburg, Germany. The company offers proprietary energy IoT systems, including "Heartbeat," an intelligent energy management solution that optimizes home energy usage in response to fluctuations in energy prices. This technology allows users to achieve significant cost savings by automatically utilizing renewable energy sources like solar power when electricity prices are lowest.
1KOMMA5° operates a virtual power plant that networks and pools customers' photovoltaic systems, electricity storage, heat pumps, and charging columns, enhancing the profitability and efficiency of these interconnected systems. The company's business model involves investing in electrical sector companies focused on photovoltaic systems, charging infrastructure, and heat pumps, providing them with software solutions, centralized services, bundled purchasing, growth capital, and equity stakes in 1KOMMA5° Holding.
In June 2023, the company acquired the Danish solar company Viasol A/S. As of October 2023, 1KOMMA5° had the capacity to convert 500,000 buildings per year to climate-neutral power generation, heat, and mobility solutions. It operated over 65 sites with around 1,500 employees across Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Spain, and Australia.
1KOMMA5° offers a dynamic electricity tariff called "Dynamic Pulse," which guarantees customers the lowest and cleanest electricity at a maximum of 15 cents/kWh for two years. The company's solar modules, produced sustainably in Germany, generate electricity at approximately five cents/kWh, ensuring cost savings and inflation-free energy for over 30 years.

1Komma5°

Bboxx is a UK-founded data-driven platform that provides African consumers with access to innovative products and services, including plug-and-play solar home systems (SHS), solar-powered water pumps, clean cooking solutions, smartphones, and e-mobility solutions. The company utilizes its proprietary fully integrated operating system, Bboxx Pulse, combined with an extensive on-the-ground network to connect customers with these life-changing offerings.Bboxx's core products are solar-powered battery boxes designed for households, enabling users to power small appliances like lights, mobile phones, refrigerators, and computers. The company follows a pay-as-you-go business model, allowing customers to pay for what they use through mobile money, making it affordable for low-income individuals. As of 2020, Bboxx had positively impacted over 3.6 million lives across Africa by providing access to clean energy and other essential products.In September 2022, Bboxx acquired solar home system provider PEG Africa, consolidating its leading position in the market and expanding its geographical footprint to Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Mali, bringing its total operating markets to 10 countries. As of 2023, Bboxx's products were actively used by over 643,000 people, resulting in better lighting, improved connectivity, and the mitigation of more than 65,000 tCO2e emissions through the replacement of kerosene lanterns and other fuels.In March 2022, Bboxx launched the Flexx product line, consisting of a portable solar lantern and a multi-light system with charging ports, aimed at serving rural customers at the bottom of the energy pyramid in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bboxx

Aquion Energy was a Pennsylvania-Washington D.C. based company that manufactured proprietary Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) batteries and energy storage systems. These saltwater batteries used sodium ions and employed widely available materials like carbon, cotton, saltwater, and manganese oxide as the primary inputs. Aquion's technology was optimized for stationary and long-duration daily cycling applications such as off-grid systems, microgrids, energy management, and grid-scale energy storage. The non-toxic and safe nature of the batteries, combined with their ability to be fully discharged without harm, made them suitable for renewable energy integration and reduced reliance on fossil fuels. Aquion aimed to provide low-cost and sustainable energy storage solutions.
In March 2017, after facing financial difficulties, Aquion Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and ceased operations, sales, and manufacturing. The company was subsequently acquired by a Chinese-affiliated entity, Juline-Titans LLC, for USD 9 million in June 2017. Following the acquisition, Aquion closed its Pennsylvania plant in September 2017 and reportedly moved operations to China with the new owners intending to scale up by targeting larger commercial clients.

Aquion Energy

Companies that develop advanced energy generation technologies for houses (mostly solar).

Companies that develop battery storage solutions for home use.

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.

Companies that offer water leak detection sensor systems and smart sprinkler systems.

Companies that assist home improvements (related to energy optimization) by bearing the upfront cost and charging users monthly fees based on energy usage.

Uses AI/ML to monitor and provide recommendations on energy and water usage

Focuses on achieving sustainability through renewable energy, saving and storing excess energy, etc.

Uplight is a technology company that partners with energy providers to facilitate the transition to a decarbonized future. The company offers a suite of software solutions designed to connect energy customers to power providers' decarbonization goals while helping customers reduce energy consumption and costs. Uplight's platform creates a seamless journey to accelerate decarbonization, improve grid resiliency, and reduce operating costs for energy providers.
Uplight's solutions leverage artificial intelligence, proprietary algorithms, and behavioral science to provide deep insights into energy customers' behaviors and preferences. The company's technology suite includes demand response programs, customer engagement tools, and marketplace solutions that enable utilities to manage grid load, enroll customers in energy-saving programs, and promote energy-efficient devices.
As of June 2023, Uplight's reach extended to over 110 million homes and businesses through its utility clients. The company's platform manages 8,300MW of flexible resources for its clients, offering a comprehensive set of flexibility solutions including virtual power plants, multi-DER orchestration, DERMS, energy storage management, and microgrid management.
In December 2023, Uplight announced an agreement to acquire AutoGrid, a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) provider. This acquisition is expected to expand Uplight's capabilities in integrating, orchestrating, and monetizing distributed energy resources (DERs).

TWAICE is a Munich-based battery analytics software company founded in 2018 by Dr. Michael Baumann and Dr. Stephan Rohr. The company provides a predictive analytics platform for companies working with lithium-ion batteries, addressing key concerns such as health, warranty, and safety throughout the battery lifecycle. TWAICE's software creates digital twins of batteries, allowing real-time monitoring and analysis of battery condition and performance. The platform combines deep battery expertise with artificial intelligence to generate actionable insights for battery development, operation, and potential second-life applications.
TWAICE's technology enables customers to optimize battery development processes, simulate battery behavior, monitor in-field performance, and evaluate used batteries for second-life applications. The company's solutions cater to various industries, including automotive, energy storage, and fleet management. TWAICE's analytics can help reduce development costs, improve battery performance and lifespan, and mitigate safety risks associated with battery operations. As of May 2021, TWAICE had raised a total of USD 45 million in funding to expand its product offerings and international presence.
Key customers and partnerships
TWAICE's customer base includes major automotive manufacturers such as Audi, Daimler, and Hero Motors, as well as energy companies like Verbund. The company has also established partnerships with Munich Re for insurance solutions, TÜV Rheinland for certifications, and ViriCiti for fleet management services. In April 2020, TWAICE's monitoring and analytics software was used by insurance company Munich Re to provide the first-ever performance warranty assurance for lithium-ion batteries. TWAICE has also formed a joint venture with TÜV Rheinland called Battery Quick Check to provide residual value assessments for used electric vehicle batteries. In 2020, TWAICE partnered with Dutch telematics company ViriCiti to deliver comprehensive battery analytics for electric bus fleets.

TWAICE

ION Energy, founded in 2016, is a Mumbai-based company that develops advanced battery management and intelligence platforms for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The company's primary focus is on improving battery life and performance through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. ION Energy's flagship product is Edison Analytics, a cloud-hosted battery lifecycle management platform that leverages battery data, software analytics, and AI to remotely monitor, predict, and improve battery life. The platform utilizes the "Trinity of Battery Life" approach, which considers the entity, environment, and experience factors that impact battery life. ION Energy's solutions include cross-functional battery management systems (BMS) such as FS-CT, FS-LT, and FS-XT, designed for various applications ranging from light electric vehicles to grid storage. In May 2022, ION Energy sold its battery management system subsidiary, Maxwell Energy Systems, to Endurance Technologies for USD 40 million. The deal involved Endurance initially taking a 51% stake and acquiring the remaining business over the following five years.

ION Energy

Habitat Energy, founded in 2017, is a leading global optimizer of battery storage and renewable energy assets. The company specializes in delivering market-leading performance and value for asset owners through its EVOLVE optimization service. EVOLVE combines cutting-edge algorithmic forecasting and automation with an expert in-house trading team and asset intelligence to maximize revenue across real-time markets while minimizing exposure to negative prices and system costs.
Habitat Energy's proprietary software allows for real-time trading, forecasting, and revenue generation in wholesale and ancillary service markets. The company uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to analyze power market dynamics and optimize split-second dispatch instructions specific to each storage and renewable power supply asset under active management. Habitat's algorithmic tools are complemented by oversight from an experienced 24/7 trading team and in-house route-to-market execution capability. The company also possesses sophisticated in-house modeling of battery degradation, enabling it to calculate the marginal degradation cost of each dispatch action and factor that into real-time optimization decisions.
In November 2021, Habitat Energy was acquired by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a specialist global investment manager focused on renewables, storage, and grid support infrastructure. Following the acquisition, Habitat Energy expanded its operations globally, with offices in Oxford, UK; Melbourne, Australia; and Austin, Texas, US. As of September 2022, Habitat Energy had an operating portfolio of over 700MW of storage capacity in the UK, dynamically optimized across real-time wholesale power markets, the Balancing Mechanism, and regulated ancillary services markets.
Key customers and partnerships
Habitat Energy has partnered with battery storage developer Glidepath Power Solutions to optimize an initial portfolio of 60MW of BESS assets in ERCOT, Texas. This includes Glidepath's 10MW/10MWh "Prospect" battery storage project in West Columbia and the 50MW Byrd Ranch storage project in Sweeny. In February 2022, Habitat Energy signed a deal with Eelpower to manage 189MW of UK battery storage projects, including assets in Fordtown near Aberdeen, Scotland, and Halesworth in Suffolk, England.

Habitat energy

Element Energy, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an advanced battery management technology company. The company has developed proprietary hardware and software algorithms to improve the safety, intelligence, and economics of large-format battery systems. Element Energy's core product is an adaptive battery management system (BMS) that provides active monitoring, in-field diagnostics, predictive intelligence, and distributed control of large-scale battery systems. This technology results in improved total system performance, including enhanced energy throughput, system life, and economics, all delivered on a cost-competitive basis with traditional systems.
The company's BMS technology is applicable to both first and second-life batteries, with a focus on improving visualization, battery safety, and efficiency. Element Energy's approach distributes control down to the module level, allowing for the seamless combination of modules with different chemistries and states of health without negatively impacting performance. This technology is being validated on a large scale with a 50 MWh pilot project in the US, expected to be completed in early 2024.
Element Energy has secured over 2.5 GWh of second-life EV batteries for redeployment in utility-scale energy storage applications. The company plans to deploy 100-400 MWh systems starting in 2023, with multi-gigawatt deployments of its secured pipeline beginning the same year. As of November 2023, Element Energy had received and screened nearly two GWh of second-life batteries and was working toward deployment in utility-scale applications.
In addition to its focus on second-life batteries, Element Energy offers its technology solutions broadly across first-life energy storage and electric vehicle applications. The company is also exploring opportunities to apply its technology to electric vehicle batteries and is deploying its software as a service with a leading battery operations and maintenance provider.

Element Energy

KORE Power is a leading US-based developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion battery cells and energy storage solutions. Founded in 2018, the company designs and produces battery cells, modules, and packs for the energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) markets. KORE Power offers both nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery chemistries, along with its own battery management system. The company's product portfolio includes energy storage systems for utility, commercial, industrial, and e-mobility applications.
KORE Power is currently constructing the KOREPlex, a 1.3 million square foot manufacturing facility in Buckeye, Arizona. Once operational, the plant will have an initial annual production capacity of six GWh of battery cells, with the potential to expand to 12 GWh. The facility is expected to begin commercial production by the end of 2024 or early 2025. In June 2023, KORE Power received a conditional commitment for an USD 850 million loan from the US Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office to support the construction of the KOREPlex.
In addition to cell manufacturing, KORE Power has expanded its offerings through strategic acquisitions and partnerships. In 2022, the company acquired Northern Reliability, an energy storage system integrator, to form KORE Solutions. This vertical integration allows KORE Power to provide end-to-end energy storage solutions. The company has also launched Nomad Transportable Power Systems, a subsidiary that produces mobile energy storage units for various applications, including power backup, emergency response, and grid support.
KORE Power has recently introduced its DC Block products, which are all-in-one energy storage solutions manufactured in the US. These systems are available in 750 kWh LFP and 1.3 MWh NMC configurations, designed to simplify installation and reduce project timelines for customers.

KORE Power

Software solutions that improve the reliability and performance of the electrical grid through facilitating the connection of distributed energy resources and other renewable energy sources. This includes solutions that optimize the operation of grids

Software solutions that monitor and optimize the performance, storage, and safety of long-duration energy storage batteries

Software solutions that monitor and optimize the performance of renewable energy assets to maximize their contribution toward consumer consumption

Demand response programs that aim to adjust the electricity consumption by end users in response to signals or price incentives

Uses AI/ML models to optimize energy supply and consumption

Optimizes and manages energy consumption and supply in smart cities

Provides software solutions for sustainable energy consumption

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