Renew Home brings households and energy providers together to help households save energy and earn rewards while offering energy providers cost-effective, reliable grid capacity at scale. With its home energy management platform, Renew Home empowers millions of households to save and shift their energy use to times when it’s cleaner and less expensive. Renew Home VPP offers the country’s largest virtual power plant solution for energy providers, with more than 5 million connected households. www.renewhome.com
OATI
Energy is all we do. From bulk energy markets to community microgrids, OATI serves every segment of the energy industry with essential technologies and services. At our core, we’re power systems engineers building better ways to move electrons across the grid. We were the first company to provide large-scale software-as-a-service to the energy industry, and we pioneered the bulk power and DERMS markets. Today, we continue to push the energy frontier with cloud-based grid solutions and energy-native generative AI. Without compromising on security – for 30+ years, our private servers have safeguarded the energy industry’s data. OATI was founded in 1995 by world-renowned power systems engineer Dr. Sasan Mokhtari, PhD. Privately owned for more than 30 years, OATI is an engineering-first organization that prides itself on leading the industry’s most robust research and development team, free from the pressure of venture capitalists and institutional investors.
Molecule Systems
Molecule Systems provides the execution infrastructure required to turn distributed energy resources (DERs) into reliable, grid-ready assets. As DERs scale rapidly across the grid, utilities are discovering that participation alone does not equal performance. Traditional Virtual Power Plants (VPPs have largely focused on enrollment, scheduling, and market access—issuing signals and hoping assets respond. That approach works for participation, but it breaks down when reliability, verification, and operational trust become the bar. Molecule was built to address the missing layer: deterministic, on-site execution. Molecule is an edge-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that operates behind the meter, where devices physically live and where control can actually be enforced. Rather than acting as a centralized scheduler in the cloud, Molecule functions as the local execution environment that translates grid intent into real, verifiable behavior across batteries, EV chargers, solar, and other flexible loads. This distinction matters. Cloud-based VPP platforms and aggregators can coordinate schedules, but they rely on APIs, OEM logic, and best-effort connectivity for execution. Molecule embeds directly at the site or gateway level, enabling real-time orchestration, fallback logic, and device-level authority even under stressed grid conditions. The result is predictable response, five-minute telemetry, and performance verification during events—not hours later. Think of the difference as the gap between planning and operations. Many VPPs act as planners, deciding what should happen. Molecule acts as the on-site operator, ensuring it actually does happen. Molecule’s platform is designed as long-lived infrastructure, not fixed-function software. Utilities invest over 15–20 year horizons, while markets, programs, and operating requirements change far faster. Molecule’s execution layer is continuously updatable, allowing utilities and partners to adapt dispatch logic, orchestration strategies, and control policies over time without stranding physical assets. For utilities, Molecule enables DERs to behave less like probabilistic resources and more like dispatchable infrastructure—supporting higher control maturity, reduced operational risk, and confidence in real-world performance. For OEMs, Molecule provides a way to make hardware grid-ready without building and maintaining complex control software in-house. For investors, Molecule represents the foundational execution layer that the distributed grid has been missing—turning intelligence and forecasts into measurable, reliable outcomes. Molecule’s mission is simple: close the execution gap so VPPs can earn the same operational trust as traditional grid resources.
FlexEnergi
FlexEnergi delivers Capacity-as-a-Service (CaaS) to utilities by aggregating behind-the-meter commercial, residential, and feeder-level resources into a unified virtual power plant (VPP). FlexEnergi’s turnkey service delivery includes: Focused customer marketing and recruitment, Full program management, Edge-enabled DERMS platform, and Comprehensive operational support. Offered on a fixed $/kW-year basis, FlexEnergi: Provides firm capacity across all 8,760 hours of the year, Can be precisely deployed at the substation or feeder level, and Helps utilities address local grid constraints. FlexEnergi is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accurant International and a member of the Grid AI Alliance. To meet with our team in the Grid AI alliance booth #1629 or contact us at info@flexenergi.com or schedulingdtech26@accurantllc.com to schedule a demonstration.
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc
CGI is powering business transformation through digitization and business solutions. CGI works with life sciences companies to deliver better business outcomes. Through our deep industry expertise, we help pharma, biotech, and medical device firms transform their businesses to drive high performance, compliance and digital connectivity. CGI expertise and services help life sciences organizations increase speed, efficiency and innovation, while keeping pace with compliance demands. CGI is recognized as a trusted advisor that is sought out to deliver comprehensive solutions that drive outcomes by combining clinical, patient engagement, manufacturing, supply chain, analytics and AI practices to achieve efficiency and innovation. CGI is committed to making our story about you and your successful journey, serving as an insightful and resourceful partner. In all we do, our goal is to build trusted relationships through client proximity, providing industry and technology expertise and end-to-end services to help you meet the needs of your customers. | Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest technology and professional services companies in the world. We are insights-driven and outcomes-focused, helping to accelerate returns on your investments. Across hundreds of locations worldwide, we provide comprehensive and scalable technology and professional services that are informed globally and delivered locally. We partner with utilities to modernize the grid, strengthen operational resilience, and optimize distributed energy resources through CGI OpenGrid360, our portfolio of grid-focused solutions and services.
Accurant International
Accurant International is leading the Grid AI Alliance, comprised of focused Grid and Operations Technology companies delivering AI-driven solutions that help utilities optimize their grid operations. These alliance companies will be represented at DISTRIBUTECH 2026 in the Grid AI Alliance booth #1629. Alliance companies provide solutions, technologies, and professional services supporting: Grid modernization, Grid resiliency, Operations technology (OT), SCADA, IoT integration, Demand response & VPPs, Impending outage detection, Wildfire risk mitigation, and Renewables integration. Solutions demonstrated in the Grid AI Alliance booth will include: Impending Outage Detection, Grid Sensors & AI Analytics, Wildfire Risk Detection, Fault Isolation and Detection, Distributed Grid Battery Storage, Grid-Edge Capacity via VPPs and DERMS, Demand Response, Advanced EV Managed Charging, Control Room AI Assistant, Expert OT & Grid Consulting, Secure OT Communications Hardware, SCADA Monitoring & Control, IoT Management, Backup & Tertiary Disaster Recovery Systems, Generation Management Systems, Renewable Management Systems, Data Historians & Analytics. Participating Grid AI Alliance members include: Accurant International, Expedium Consulting, Sentient Energy, FlexEnergi, and Renovo Automation. To meet with our team in the Grid AI alliance booth #1629 or contact us at info@accurantllc.com or schedulingdtech26@accurantllc.com to schedule a meeting.