Piq Agentic Grid Planning Platform

Piq Energy was founded in 2023 by Tom Nudell and Dionysios Stamatiadis and builds an agentic grid planning platform. It targets long grid interconnection queues for solar, wind, storage and data center projects by shortening power system study timelines from months to minutes.

AI agents configure models and scenarios, launch studies, analyze results and write reports on top of existing engineering tools rather than replacing them. The platform serves large loads, generators and utilities, and manages more than 1,000 transmission grid models. Customers named on the site include Cloverleaf and Linea Energy.

• Regional screening: Produces a heat map of N-1 headroom capacity across a region.
• Point screening: Analyzes a point of interconnection including constraints, upgrades and costs.
• Queue management: Models how cost allocation in cluster studies shifts as projects change.
• Model building: Automates building and validating dynamic plant models.
• Agent workflows: Agents launch studies, analyze results and write reports grounded in study data.
• Auditability: Every step is logged and reproducible.

A transmission planning team screens headroom for new wind and solar connection points. A renewable developer in Vietnam models cost allocation scenarios as projects drop out of a queue. A data center developer checks grid constraints at candidate sites.

Shortens grid study timelines from months to minutes, according to the company, which claims 650x faster studies and over 1 GW unlocked. Works alongside existing engineering software. Every agent step is logged and reproducible, and agents inherit the permissions of the user. Supports compliance with FERC Orders 2023 and 1920 for utilities.

Interconnection queues for renewables, storage and data centers are a bottleneck in many grids, pushing demand for automated grid studies. Vietnam is expanding solar, wind and storage, and its transmission planning could benefit from faster screening and scenario tools.

Founded 2023; launched in 2025 after stealth development. Oversubscribed $5M seed round reported July 2026, led by Active Impact Investments with Cisco Foundation, New Climate Ventures and others. CLAI Ventures investment announced August 2026.