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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
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Plexigrid Grid Digital Twin and DERMS for DSOs
Plexigrid emerged in July 2020 as a spin-off from the University of Oviedo in Spain and has offices in Spain and Sweden. It builds software for distribution system…
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Emerald AI Conductor
Emerald AI is a US company with offices in Washington DC, Boston and San Francisco, founded and led by CEO Varun Sivaram. It makes the power demand of…
Lunar Gridshare VPP and DER Platform
Lunar Energy was founded in August 2020 by Kunal Girotra and was started by engineers from Tesla; ITOCHU describes it as a US residential energy storage developer. Besides…
Gridcog Energy Project Modelling Software
Gridcog is a B2B SaaS company headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, Berlin, Madrid, Perth and Melbourne. Its founders previously co-founded Greensense, which was acquired…
Shizen Connect VPP Platform
Shizen Connect Inc. is a Tokyo-based technology startup founded in October 2023, whose largest shareholder is Shizen Energy Inc. It develops its own IoT and AI for energy…
Neara Physics-Enabled Grid Digital Twin
Neara is an infrastructure software company whose press releases are datelined Sydney, Australia. It builds a physics-enabled digital twin for electric utilities that combines network assets, their surroundings…
Gridwiz Demand Response and VPP Energy Platform
Gridwiz is a South Korean energy solutions and smart grid technology company headquartered in Seoul. It describes itself as Korea’s number one demand response aggregator with the largest…
SwitchDin Utility Server and DER Orchestration Platform
SwitchDin is an Australian energy technology company that has worked for more than ten years on connecting distributed energy resources (DER) to the grid. It provides a vendor-agnostic,…
Pixaera Immersive Safety Training Platform
Pixaera Inc. is a safety training company registered in Wilmington, Delaware, with a UK branch in Manchester. It serves high-risk industries such as oil and gas, energy, construction,…
Hygenco Green Hydrogen and Ammonia Gas-as-a-Service
Hygenco Green Energies Private Limited is an Indian developer of green hydrogen and green ammonia projects with offices in Gurugram and Pune. It helps industrial users replace fossil-based…