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HONOLULU, July 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Incubatenergy Labs program announced that Shifted Energy was selected as one of 20 startup companies that will conduct accelerated demonstrations of their technologies with utilities and EPRI as part of Incubatenergy Labs’ 2021 Cohort. The company will collaborate with Arizona utility Read more…

Nine startups have been selected to support eastern Australia transmission and distribution operators’ priorities. The startups from around the world are the cohort in the cleantech startup accelerator EnergyLab’s Scaleup programme, for which transmission network operator TransGrid and distributor Endeavour Energy are this year’s sponsors. Click here to read more.

TransGrid and Endeavour Energy are teaming up with nine of the world’s best late-stage energy startups in EnergyLab’s new Scaleup Program cohort  – offering a unique opportunity to help the nine companies to unlock their next wave of growth.  EnergyLab’s Scaleup Program was launched in 2020, after being built collaboratively with Australian utilities Read more…

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) – Tourism may be the driving force behind Hawaii’s economy, but a growing number of entrepreneurs and business agree: It doesn’t have to be the only one. With the visitor industry still shut down amid the pandemic, new industries are showing strength and using the state’s abundant Read more…

What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? At Shifted Energy, we primarily do three things: enable utilities to stabilize the grid, accelerate renewable energy integration and engage customers in innovative programs. We do that by making a smarter water heater. This is Hawai‘i-grown technology that allows the utility to Read more…

In August 2019, Hawaiian Electric and Minneapolis-based Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI) finalized a pioneering grid services purchase agreement. As part of that agreement Shifted Energy, which is apart of the OATI Energy Alliance, collaborated with Avalon Commercial LLC to install 57 grid-interactive water heaters at the 7000 Hawaii Read more…

Hawaiian Electric (HECO) recently added 2.5MW of grid services to its grid, allowing it to store energy during peak solar and wind production periods, and did so without any traditional batteries, flywheels, or pumped hydro. Even better, the hardware required is very minimal, and in fact, most of it already Read more…

San Francisco-based Particle, which develops what it claims is one of the world’s most popular internet of things (IoT) platforms, today announced that it’s raised $40 million in a series C funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures and Energy Impact Partners. The tranche, which saw participation from Root Ventures, Bonfire Read more…

Hawaiian Electric Company has signed an agreement to incorporate grid-interactive water heaters (GIWH) into the utility’s emerging grid services market as part of a Grid Services Purchase Agreement. Shifted Energy has signed an agreement with Hawaiian Electric Company as part of the Grid Services Purchase Agreement led by Open Access Read more…

October 10, 2019 | By Randall Fish, Shifted Energy and Trevor Gibson, SEPA Water heaters, one of the largest energy consumers in our homes, typically perform a simple function: heating water and keeping it hot until we need it. Yet, by leveraging intelligent controls and basic signaling, the energy consumed by Read more…