Today we're releasing CommonGrid, an open-source registry of the US power grid that’s connected, community-maintained, and ready to use.
Until now, understanding the full grid meant piecing it together from hundreds of separately-maintained public sources. CommonGrid connects complex data from across the grid into one model with open APIs, community moderation, and a public changelog.
"No single company can keep an accurate model of the U.S. grid on its own," @victorquinn, Co-founder and CTO of Texture, shares. "So we borrowed the model that works for Wikipedia, anyone can propose a change, and every change carries its source and its history."
We're not the first to take this on, and we want to recognize the projects that pushed this space forward before we got here, innovators like Map Your Grid, OpenGridWorks, and gridstatus library from @grid_status, among them.
The grid is shared infrastructure. Understanding how it's put together should be shared, too.
Read the full announcement: texturehq.com/press/commongr…
Sanjiv Sanghavi is heading to the Climate Capital Summit this week, speaking on the panel "Utility 2.0: Turning the Grid to Internet" with Devrim Celal, Kareem Dabbagh, and Shounok Sinha, moderated by Jon Healy on Sept 24 at 3:50 PM.
Vermont Electric Cooperative has returned over $400,000 in transmission and capacity savings to its 33,000 members since 2021 through a multi-OEM residential battery program built on Texture.
Read the full case study: texturehq.com/customers/verm…#DistributedEnergy#Cooperatives
We're headed to the Rocky Mountain Utility Exchange next week! Connect with Texture September 21–24 in Vail, CO.
Texture's Erik Roth and Cyril Brunner will be on-site all week. Catch Cyril speaking at the Sponsor Showcase Lightning Round on Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:30 PM.
Vehicle-grid integration is becoming one of the defining pieces of the energy transition, and it faces the same challenge as the rest of the grid. We're looking forward to working with VGIC to help make vehicle-grid integration practical and scalable as EV adoption accelerates.
A global grid technology provider brought in Texture as the single integration point for multiple OEM program operations, and we delivered:
• 40+ MWh Battery capacity managed across the residential VPP
• 2,000+ Batteries enrolled
Read our case study: texturehq.com/customers/moun…
We'll be at the 20th Rocky Mountain Utility Exchange in Colorado, Sep. 21-24!
Texture's Cyril Brunner Erik Roth will be there in person, and you can catch Cyril speaking at the Sponsor Showcase Lightning Round at 4:30 pm Tuesday.
Our team will be in Dallas for @DISTRIBUTECH ready to chat about how we're helping companies just like yours:
- Make sense of messy energy data (finally!)
- Get all your data flowing to the right places
- Say goodbye to those annoying data silos
Whether you are orchestrating DERs, scaling demand-side management, or simplifying incentive programs, Texture removes bottlenecks and unlocks frictionless participation in the energy transition.
Organizations can:
* Reduce admin costs by 75 percent while tripling successful enrollments
* Automate eligibility verification
* Launch in days, not months
* Run multiple programs from a single system
* Ensure compliance and accuracy with built-in validation
At Texture, we're taking the counterintuitive path: fewer people, but better. After 5 startups, I've learned this approach accelerates success even while burning capital faster. Senior folks make better decisions when they matter most.
texturehq.com/blog/why-textu…
But consumers aren’t just data points in an optimization model. They own these assets, and their experience—not just the potential to save money—is what will determine whether they participate.
And at the center of this entire problem? Data.
texturehq.com/blog/who-contr…
The power grid is no longer one-way.
Homes are becoming power plants.
Every EV is a mobile battery.
Yet energy companies are stuck with legacy systems "because we've already invested so much."
Time to evolve. texturehq.com/blog/sunk-cost…
"I’ve been privileged to work with some of the best UX designers in the world. I’ve never seen a design challenge as interesting as the one facing energy right now."
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