Once again, SF Climate Week brought an extraordinary mix of people, ideas, and technology together across a dynamic series of sessions and events. After a few days to reflect on the week’s panels, meetings, and conversations, one theme really stood out: energy was at the center of the conversation, and the transition is no longer … Read more
Distributed energy has reached a turning point. The devices are here. Solar is mainstream. Batteries are accelerating. EV adoption continues to rise. Intelligent HVAC and flexible loads are becoming standard features of modern buildings. The big question now is how they all successfully work together at scale. The Shift From Installation to Participation For years, … Read more
When Uplight, a leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and demand-side management platform, needed to quickly onboard two new battery partners Enphase Energy and FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc., the stakes were high. Thousands of dollars in upfront and ongoing incentives per battery were tied to program timelines. Any delay risked lost sales, missed customer benefits, and unnecessary strain on internal teams. That’s … Read more
Challenge Enphase saw a clear opportunity to increase customer ROI through California’s Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program. Participating meant building complex signal translation, dispatch control, and compliance reporting, pulling critical engineering resources away from core product priorities. Solution We drove ~5× year-over-year DSGS revenue growth in 2025. We enabled full DSGS participation in four … Read more
Our electricity grid is facing unprecedented stress from skyrocketing demand and increasingly intermittent supply. Fortunately, DERs, such as rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers, and more, offer exactly what the grid needs: flexible, clean, and low-cost capacity.