Podero provides a platform that synchronizes consumer devices with electricity markets and utility software systems to optimize energy usage and reduce purchasing costs. By enabling automated control of aggregated device fleets, Podero helps utilities offer competitive electricity contracts while maximizing customer savings and enhancing grid stability.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Utilities face challenges in optimizing energy consumption, managing grid stability, and offering competitive electricity contracts in a rapidly evolving energy market. Traditional methods lack the ability to effectively synchronize consumer devices with electricity market dynamics and utility software systems. This results in increased electricity purchasing costs and missed opportunities to leverage distributed energy resources for grid balancing.
Solution
Podero offers a software platform that synchronizes consumer devices with electricity markets and utility software systems, enabling optimized energy usage and reduced purchasing costs. The platform allows utilities to offer competitive electricity contracts by automating the control of aggregated device fleets, maximizing customer savings, and enhancing grid stability. Podero's fully-integrated suite enables device flexibility for smart electricity contracts, allowing utilities to reduce electricity purchasing costs, grow their customer base, and trade device flexibility. The platform integrates into utilities' existing app, backend, trading, ERP, and customer support systems.
Target Audience
The primary customers are utilities seeking to optimize energy consumption, reduce electricity purchasing costs, and offer competitive electricity contracts to their customers.
Features
- Connect, monitor, and control consumers’ devices, including heat pumps, air conditioners, electric vehicles, wallboxes, inverters, and battery storage systems.
- Automated steering of aggregated device fleets based on market activities for optimized purchasing, imbalance cost risk reduction, and balancing energy to provide grid stability.
- White-label apps for launching and managing smart device steering.
- API for integration into utilities' backend, trading, ERP, and customer support systems.
- Compatibility with 50+ device manufacturers.
- Support for smart dynamic contracts, PV self-consumption (HEMS), and maximizing prosumer earnings.
- Algorithms for precise device steering to earn revenues on balancing energy markets.