Uplight
Luis D’Acosta is the CEO of Uplight. Hannah Bascom is Chief Market Innovation Officer of Uplight.
Uplight recently acquired AutoGrid as electrification and digitization are changing the needs of an increasingly distributed and decarbonized energy system. The acquisition centers on the need for active energy customer participation to help provide reliable and flexible capacity as a tool to optimize the modern electric grid, which translates into use of Virtual Power Plants, or VPPs.
This works because AutoGrid is a clean-tech company with software providing a platform to augment energy assets as VPPs across all customer classes, device types, and use cases. It allows energy and utilities companies to take advantage of the forecasted growth in distributed energy resources and use VPPs to help with demand.
To discuss how this acquisition combines Uplight's expertise in energy customer engagement with AutoGrid's flexibility management platform, Public Utilities Fortnightly talked with two leaders: Uplight's Hannah Bascom and Luis D'Acosta provided insights on these important topics.
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