Uplight provides an AI-powered platform that enables energy providers to manage distributed energy resources (DERs) and optimize energy asset performance, enhancing grid reliability and customer engagement. The platform addresses the challenges of energy efficiency and electrification by facilitating personalized energy management and maximizing savings for both utilities and consumers.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Energy providers face challenges in managing distributed energy resources (DERs) effectively, hindering grid reliability and the transition to cleaner energy sources. Optimizing energy asset performance and engaging customers in energy efficiency programs requires advanced technology and personalized approaches.
Solution
Uplight offers an AI-powered platform designed to enable energy providers to manage DERs, optimize energy asset performance, and enhance customer engagement. The platform facilitates personalized energy management by providing tools for energy efficiency, electrification, rates engagement, demand management, and energy asset optimization. By connecting experiences, personalizing touchpoints, and providing predictive controls, Uplight helps utilities, retailers, power producers, and portfolio managers mobilize energy customers and assets to improve grid reliability and accelerate the energy transition. The centralized platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems and data streams, providing insights within various touchpoints.
Target Audience
Uplight's primary customers are energy providers, including utilities, retailers, power producers, and portfolio managers, seeking to improve grid reliability, optimize energy asset performance, and enhance customer engagement.
Features
- Customer Portals: Digital portals guide residential and business customers to conserve energy, purchase energy-efficient devices, and enroll in programs.
- Rates Engagement: Rate reports, coaching emails, and alerts increase program adoption and engagement, maximizing bill savings and load shift.
- Demand Response (DR), DER Management (DERMS), and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs): Aggregates, forecasts, and orchestrates energy assets across classes and device types.
- Energy Asset Optimization: Connects, dispatches, and co-optimizes front-of-meter (FTM) and behind-the-meter (BTM) assets to reduce energy costs and maximize market revenue.
- AI-powered analytics: Leverages advanced analytics, including AI, to guide customers to take the next best step on their clean energy journey.
- Predictive controls: Provides grid and asset operators with the intelligence needed to make smarter dispatch decisions in real time.