GridPoint

GridPoint is a smart building technology leader with a mission focused on enabling the world’s transition to an efficient and sustainable future through smart, grid-connected buildings. Its hardware-enabled subscription offerings bridge the gap between commercial businesses, utilities, and technology partners to support grid modernization and bring outdated energy infrastructure to the 21st century. Powered by the best data, GridPont's platform is designed to identify best-fit energy strategies, reduce waste, and make buildings smarter through controls, automation, and machine learning.[1][2][3][4][5]

GridPoint
Founded2003 (2003)
HeadquartersReston, Virginia Other offices: Roanoke, Virginia
ProductsEnergy management systems
Energy management software
Software-as-a-Service
Utility load and storage management software
Utility customer engagement platforms
Websitewww.gridpoint.com

GridPoint's technology and services include intelligent, real-time control, equipment-level submetering and monitoring hardware, big data analytics software and energy management services.[6][7][8]

History and growth

GridPoint was founded in 2003 by Peter L. Corsell.[9][10] Through its early growth and into 2009, GridPoint's Smart Grid Platform provided an intelligent network for utilities to integrate load measurement and control devices, energy storage technologies, and renewable energy sources into the electric grid.[11][12][13]

In 2009, the company began leveraging the data and analytics research and knowledge from its utility-facing smart grid technologies to develop energy management solutions for the enterprise and government sectors.[14][15][16][17]

Later that year, GridPoint acquired ADMMicro, a developer of energy management systems for the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector and Lixar, a cloud-based energy management software technology company.[18][19][20][21][22]

In 2013, former Berkshire Hathaway executive Todd Raba joined GridPoint as CEO. Raba had previously run the Berkshire Hathaway companies Johns Manville and MidAmerican Energy Company.[23][24][25][26]

In 2016, Mark Danzenbaker became GridPoint's CEO. Mark has been with GridPoint since 2009 and has held a number of leadership positions during that time. As CEO, Mark is responsible for the development and execution of the company’s overall strategy and continued expansion of GridPoint’s cloud-based, data-driven products. Prior to GridPoint, Mr. Danzenbaker was Senior Manager at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, where his work spanned the Global Customer Relationship Management Practice and Public Service Market Unit. Mr. Danzenbaker holds an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a B.S. degree from James Madison University.

In 2018, GridPoint partners with Shell and Sparkfund to launch a new smart building subscription solution for commercial businesses.[27]

In October 2019, GridPoint announced an investment by Hannon Armstrong which allows the company to offer its energy management platform as an all-inclusive service, requiring zero capital down with a monthly pricing structure.[28]

Technology and services

GridPoint's integrated energy management solution includes hardware, software and services that collect data about equipment-level energy consumption and building environmental conditions, aggregate and analyze that data and then communicate what actions can be taken to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, improve operational efficiency and capital utilization and help ensure business continuity.[6][29][30]

Energy management hardware

GridPoint's real-time controllers manage lighting schedules and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) temperature setpoints across a network of facilities. Equipment-level submeters measure circuit-level power consumption for equipment such as individual HVAC units, chiller boiler systems, lighting, refrigeration, kitchen equipment, plug loads and signage and monitoring devices collect environmental data such as temperature, humidity and CO2 levels. Captured data is then fed into the GridPoint Energy Manager software platform.

Energy management software

GridPoint's energy management software platform, GridPoint Energy Manager, is a cloud-based data aggregation and analytics engine that presents equipment-level energy consumption and building environmental information through SaaS-based dashboards, reports and alarms.[7][31] The software platform can be used with either GridPoint equipment or third-party hardware via open, standards-based public interfaces. The software platform also includes demand response functionality and renewable energy integration for technologies such as solar, fuel cells and wind.

Energy management services

GridPoint's energy management services include energy advisory services, advanced reporting, custom savings analyses, alarm management, facility triage, equipment diagnoses and training.

Utility solutions

GridPoint's current utility solutions include enterprise energy management and submetering systems to support utilities’ commercial and industrial customers by providing information about energy consumption patterns and load and storage management solutions that capture and dispatch energy by storage assets located in a utility's transmission and distribution system. For residential utility customers, GridPoint provides software-based dashboards that provide information about energy consumption, predicted energy usage and carbon impact.

Awards and recognition

GridPoint has received various honors including designation as a 2008 Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum, inclusion in the 2009 Global Cleantech 100 by The Guardian and Cleantech Group, the 2013 Customer Value Leadership Award for Building Energy Management Solutions from Frost & Sullivan and selection as a 2013 Top 10 Enterprise Smart Grid Leader by Groom Energy.[32][33][34][35]

The company has also been referenced in books including Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, The Clean Tech Revolution by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, Perfect Power by Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager and Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp.[36][37][38][39]

GridPoint's institutional investors include Goldman Sachs and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).[40][41]

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