This company provides an AI-driven intelligence layer for distributed power generation, unifying clean energy assets and market data. They deliver real-time decision support and portfolio visibility to make decentralized energy profitable and reliable for producers, traders, and utilities. Their technology integrates data, optimizes dispatch, and simulates regulatory impacts to enhance grid resilience and operational efficiency.
Funding
$100K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Many regions in Africa face unreliable electricity access due to outdated grid infrastructure and the challenges of integrating distributed renewable energy sources. This results in inconsistent power supply for municipalities and bulk meter owners, hindering economic development and quality of life.
Solution
Asoba provides a utility-scale virtual power plant (VPP) solution that optimizes energy distribution and enhances grid reliability. The platform uses real-time forecasting and automated dispatch control to manage distributed energy resources and ensure a consistent power supply. Asoba's GridOps platform offers advanced modeling, performance optimization, predictive maintenance, and energy storage integration. The company's data platform monitors, forecasts, and integrates renewable power across the entire lifecycle, from generation and dispatch to trade settlement, addressing the need for scalable infrastructure capable of handling generation, distribution, and trade settlement at scale. Asoba also provides financing for metering infrastructure and wraparound support for customer billing and collections.
Target Audience
Asoba targets municipalities, bulk meter owners, energy traders, and independent power producers (IPPs) in Africa seeking to improve grid reliability, optimize renewable energy assets, and ensure affordable electricity access.
Features
- Real-time forecasting and dispatch scheduling using advanced AI modeling
- Standalone APIs for integration into existing workflows
- GridOps platform for virtual power plant management as a service
- Performance optimization and predictive maintenance for renewable energy assets
- Energy storage integration and production forecasting
- Financing for metering infrastructure
- Support for customer billing and collections
- Demand response and load shifting tools
- Facilitation of electricity exchange between customers with solar and battery systems
- Data interpolation and globbing functionality to fill gaps in energy data and unify diverse inverter brands
- EVM compliant endpoints to support real-time trade settlement via blockchain
- Policy risk management chatbot analyzes evolving energy policies and market trends