Microgrid 2021 Sponsors

S&C Electric Company seamlessly integrates hardware, controls, and services for microgrids. With experience designing and building microgrid systems, S&C can help you develop an approach that will ensure reliability and meet your objectives. Our High-Speed Fault-Clearing System offers an essentially no-outage system and provides ultra-high reliability for microgrids. For quasi-independent microgrids that rely on centralized generation as their primary source, but use a distributed energy resource to provide back-up power, S&C can engineer dynamic islanding systems that can intelligently add and shave load from the distributed resource.

Schneider Electric is a leader the Digital Transformation of Energy Management and Automation in Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure, and Industries. With global presence in over 100 countries, Schneider is the undisputable leader in Power Management – Medium Voltage, Low Voltage and Secure Power, and in Automation Systems. We provide integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation, and software. In our global Ecosystem, we collaborate with the largest Partner, Integrator, and Developer Community on our Open Platform to deliver real-time control and operational efficiency. We believe that great people and partners make Schneider a great company and that our commitment to Innovation, Diversity, and Sustainability ensures that Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, and at every moment.

POWER Engineers, Inc. is a global consulting engineering firm specializing in integrated solutions for the energy, facilities, environmental, and federal markets. As innovators, we encourage new ideas and fresh approaches. As trusted responsive advisors, we help clients realize unique microgrid solutions. These traits, combined with deep technical skill integrating renewable and other energy sources into electrical systems, allow us to deliver solutions that meet our clients’ requirements for secure, resilient power. Our project approach is marked by our commitment to being flexible, reliable, and knowledgeable so that we are able to accommodate each client’s needs, delivering winning projects

PowerSecure is the nation’s leading distributed energy innovation company. Our team of experts has developed, installed, managed and serviced 2+ GW of microgrid capacity over the past 20 years, as well as implemented over $800 million of energy efficiency upgrades. We take a full-facility, lifecycle approach through production and management, delivering clean and resilient energy to our customers at the best possible value. By combining our product innovation capabilities with our 360 integrated processes, we offer you the best custom solution for your needs, backed by an unmatched level of expertise, quality and service.

ETAP is the global market and technology leader in modeling, design, analysis, optimization, monitoring, control, and automation software for electrical power systems.

ETAP Microgrid Solution offers an integrated model-driven, cross-platform microgrid controller to facilitate optimal and reliable control of Microgrids. The solution enables you to seamlessly operate and transition between grid connected and islanded modes.

Siemens Digital Grid partners with leading utilities and energy providers worldwide to provide expertise and innovative technologies to help in their transformation journeys. Globally, Digital Grid has worked with more than 2,500 leading utilities and energy providers to deliver proven solutions and services that improve operational efficiencies, enhance reliability and resiliency, and empower consumers to better manage their energy use.

For over 100 years, Cummins’ technology has powered success around the world. Our comprehensive portfolio delivers centralized as well as distributed energy solutions for your unique power need – commercial, industrial, marine, mining, recreational, emergency and residential. Products include diesel and gas engines ranging from 49 – 5,500 hp, diesel and gas powered generator sets ranging from 15 – 3750 kVA, alternators, generator-drive engines, battery storage systems and integrated power systems, combining generator sets and power control and transfer technologies. Services range from system design, project management, operations and maintenance contracts to the development of turnkey power plants and energy modeling. With 500 distributor facilities and 9000+ dealer locations in 190+ countries and territories, we offer global capabilities and local support wherever and whenever you need us. Cummins technologies and employees are Powering a World That’s Always On.

Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner and operator. Our comprehensive portfolio includes energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions delivered to clients throughout North America and the United Kingdom. Ameresco’s sustainability services in support of clients’ pursuit of net zero include upgrades to a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development, construction, and operation of distributed energy resources.

Ameresco has successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible projects with Federal, state and local governments, healthcare and educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. With its corporate headquarters in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,000 employees providing local expertise in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

At Enchanted Rock, our mission is making sure the power is on for our customers. Our Managed Power Resiliency solution has reinvented how organizations ensure power resiliency with fully managed, clean microgrids. We provide patented advanced technology, support services, and flexible pricing options designed for fast, simple, and worry-free protection from grid outages lasting from minutes to weeks so our customers can focus on their core business. High availability solutions, backed by skilled personnel, result in low risk, predictable resiliency. To learn more about the Enchanted Rock Managed Power Resiliency solution, visit www.EnchantedRock.com

Concord Engineering is a full-service engineering, energy procurement, construction management and commissioning firm. Concord employs over 100 engineers and technicians and construction managers. We have established ourselves as a “Virtual” Microgrid Service Provider providing energy expertise to anyone working toward a resilient and sustainable electric grid.

Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world. The company’s product, the Bloom Energy Server, delivers highly reliable and resilient, always-on electric power that is clean, cost-effective, and ideal for microgrid applications. Bloom’s customers include many Fortune 100 companies and leaders in manufacturing, data centers, healthcare, retail, higher education, utilities, and other industries.

Scale Microgrid Solutions designs, builds, operates, and finances cutting-edge on-site power systems for commercial and industrial facilities throughout North America. The Company’s proprietary microgrid modules enable their customers to reap the benefits of the world’s most innovative distributed energy technologies while eliminating the anxieties associated with the traditional microgrid development process. SMS is building the backbone of the 21st century electric grid, at scale.

Real-time Predictive AI for Smart Grid Optimization and Resilience
Veritone is accelerating the world’s transition to more sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy. Optimize, synchronize, and intelligently control smart grids with Veritone Energy Solutions. Use Veritone AI to make clean energy production more predictable, cost effective and resilient, accelerating the mission to end global dependence on fossil fuels.

The world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence, Veritone aiWARE, orchestrates a diverse ecosystem of machine learning models to transform audio, video, text, and other data sources into actionable intelligence. With aiWARE, leverage digital workers to save manual review time, gain valuable data insights, and cognitively enrich end-to-end workflows.

AZZO is a global engineering and technology company that provides control & monitoring systems, fleet management and systems integration for the renewable energy and microgrid markets.  We design, deploy and support these solutions bringing technology together with our core competencies in Energy Management, Electrical Engineering, Power Automation and Software Development.

Our customers are adding microgrids into an existing energy systems and strategies.  AZZO is uniquely capable of integrating existing systems with new DER/microgrids with our Energy X platform.

AZZO has proven remote service capabilities which us to pre-commission these systems for plug-n-play cloud connectivity and remote monitoring and control architectures.

Founded in 2011, Go Electric (GoE) develops and deploys superior battery enabled microgrid solutions providing seamless resilience to customers under any grid fault condition. What makes GoE different from other microgrid companies? Our system application roots come from the automotive industry where electrical system performance is required to act within milliseconds to insure continuous energy availability. Using the same principles of performance, compact size and ruggedization, gives the GoE solution a unique ability to, as validated by DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, provide “grid catch” capabilities when a fault condition occurs.

GoE is located in Anderson, Indiana and is backed by the strength of our parent companies (Saft and Total SE). GoE can take advantage of its technology leadership with location, financial strength and access to global supply chain serving its customers in the most effective and cost efficient manner possible.

CleanSpark, Inc. provides advanced software and controls technology solutions to solve modern energy challenges. CleanSpark has a suite of software solutions that provide end-to-end microgrid energy modeling, energy market communications, and energy management solutions. CleanSpark’s offerings consist of intelligent energy monitoring and controls, intelligent microgrid design software, middleware communications protocols for the energy industry, energy system engineering, custom hardware solutions, microgrid installation and implementation services, traditional data center services and software consulting services.

ComAp designs and manufactures control products for power generation and engine equipment, developing products that make power generation more efficient, with optimized fuel consumption, reduced emissions, and increasingly hybridized with renewable energy and energy storage to address the environmental protection needs of today and tomorrow.

Sapling Financial Consultants is a Toronto-based consultancy specializing in financial modelling and data analytics services for firms across North America. We help electricity developers to land new clients, develop profitable projects, and raise capital from like-minded investors. Our value-driving Financial Modelling services help developers to price projects sustainably, demonstrate customer savings, and raise capital. While our engagements span all industries and sizes, our focus is consistent: making financial decisions based on quantitative analysis.

ESS Inc. designs, builds and deploys the most environmentally sustainable, lowest-cost, iron flow batteries for long-duration commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications requiring from 4 to 16 hours of flexible energy capacity. The Energy Warehouse^TM and Energy Center^TM use earth-abundant iron, salt, and water for the electrolyte, resulting in an environmentally benign, long-life energy storage solution for the world’s renewable energy infrastructure. Established in 2011, ESS Inc. enables project developers, utilities, and commercial and industrial facility owners to make the transition to more flexible non-lithium-ion storage that is better suited for the grid and the environment. For more information visit www.essinc.com.

Mesa Solutions

We are a leading power solutions company specializing in the manufacturing, sales, leasing, and operations of natural gas and liquid propane-powered mobile and stationary generators sets and microgrids.

Our best-in-class power solutions enable customers to reduce their energy costs and capital expenditures as well as increase reliability and operational up-time, all while lowering emissions and decreasing their overall carbon footprint.

We secured our foothold in the energy industry at the beginning of our operations, utilizing natural gas-powered generators to capture stranded gas produced in oil and gas operations. We have since advanced outside of the energy industry, currently operating across the globe.

Today, our manufacturing capabilities have expanded, now providing sustainable power generation for commercial and industrial (C&I) prime power, microgrids, standby power, and a variety of other global applications.

Our top priorities are sustainability, our people, and our customers. We want to help you find the best solution for your power needs.

PXiSE Energy Solutions offers high-speed, precise control technology that unlocks the potential of distributed and renewable energy generation while ensuring continuous system balance.

HOMER Energy by UL is now UL

HOMER® Energy by UL develops and distributes HOMER software, the global standard for energy modeling solutions for solar + storage microgrids and hybrid power systems. By combining engineering and economics in one powerful model, HOMER software enables users to determine least-cost hybrid systems quickly and efficiently. Solutions are available for diverse applications. HOMER Pro optimizes the complexities of standalone microgrids. HOMER Grid is perfect for grid-connected behind-the-meter distributed generation. The new HOMER Front + UL Analysis helps energy developers optimize front-of-the-meter utility-scale hybrid systems that include wind, solar and energy storage. Learn more at www.homerenergy.com. HOMER Energy by UL is now UL.

Founded in 1981, AB is a global leader in the design, construction and maintenance of packaged Cogeneration and Renewable Natural Gas Upgrading Plants. With operations in 22 countries and more than a thousand systems designed, built and serviced across renewable, natural gas and other non-natural-gas applications, AB supports its Customers with local teams and resources while providing access to application know-how and global assets.

Rolls-Royce provides world-class power solutions and full life-cycle support under our product and solution brand MTU. By utilizing the potential of digitalization and electrification, we strive to develop climate-neutral power delivery and power generation solutions that are even cleaner and smarter, thus providing answers to the challenges posed by climate change and by society’s rapidly growing demands for energy and mobility.

MTU microgrid solutions range from standalone battery storage to fully integrated hybrid systems​. As a one-stop-shop solution provider, we offer microgrid solutions tailored to customer needs – energy generation, renewable integration, energy storage and smart control to optimize operation of microgrids.

Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader with deep regional application expertise in power distribution and circuit protection; power quality, backup power and energy storage; control and automation; life safety and security; structural solutions; and harsh and hazardous environment solutions. Through end-to-end services, channel and an integrated digital platform & insights Eaton is powering what matters across industries and around the world, helping customers solve their most critical electrical power management challenges.

Elum Energy is an energy and automation company that supplies cost-effective monitoring and control solutions for hybrid energy systems. These solutions can be adapted to a wide range of applications.
Elum Energy provides energy management systems (ePowerControl) and a SCADA platform (ePowerMonitor) for solar energy, storage, and other distributed resources. The solutions are suitable for solar power generation facilities coupled with diesel generators and/or energy storage. The power plants have a capacity of 10 KW to 20 MW and are typically installed on commercial and industrial buildings with low grid availability, or powering an isolated off-grid city and/or island.