GridWorks delivers low-cost, high-impact solutions for renewables-intensive grids.  These solutions focus on the design and deployment of Transactive Energy Resources.

WHAT we do

We develop decentralized, market-based solutions that help provide near-optimal answers in real-world environments. These solutions are ideally suited to environments with high volatility and distributed, heterogeneous load and generation assets. We focus on the role of Transactive Energy Resources now and in the future in the various US regulatory environments:

Definition: A Transactive Energy Resource (TER) is a Physical Resource capable of 24-7, real- time geographically localized response to grid conditions that can significantly shift and adapt its pattern of electric power use or generation with negligible negative consequences for its primary use.

We are particularly interested in emerging TERs: behind-the-meter aggregations of load-side flexible resources such as space heating/cooling with embedded thermal energy storage and EVs, as well as innovative forms of long-term bulk storage.

Gridworks’ principals bring

  • The ability to create cost-effective scalable systems solutions capitalizing on existing infrastructure, using methods grounded in the underlying physics of electric grids.

  • Experience in the design and development of control hardware and software for behind-the-meter, load-side Transactive Energy Resources. 

  • Deep understanding of the challenges that intermittent renewable generation presents to electric grids, especially on isolated and poorly-connected microgrids.

  • Experience in providing the most advanced load-side grid balancing technology in the world, including in the US (PJM, ISO-NE), UK (National Grid) and Ireland (EirGrid).

  • Deep knowledge of the physics and engineering of the world's electric grids, especially the requirement for grid stability on sub-one-second timeframes.

  • Knowledge and experience analyzing and trading on multiple wholesale electricity markets (US, UK, Ireland).

  • Understanding of the various market architectures for energy and ancillary services.