Energy, Oil & Gas Issue 225 March 2025 | Page 81

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Electric Cooperative solar contractors who do a really good job of selling solar but aren’ t really interested in the customer’ s best interests. As a result, we got into the solar business and now we provide solar power and battery storage. Lastly, our members wanted energy efficiency and for us to help them finance that in order to control their energy costs. In 2016, we started developing software, which is a real-time energy management platform that allows our customers to understand how they use energy. We did this because, in order to solve
a problem, you first need to understand it, and I’ m happy to report we’ ve now satisfied all the members’ concerns. We’ re now one of only two companies in North America that has been certified by ERCOT( Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which is the independent grid operator in Texas, for aggregating those systems into a virtual power plant and selling those resources back to the market for our customers’ benefit. That’ s a pretty substantial accomplishment in just a little over ten years.”
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