So COP26 has kicked off this week in Glasgow.  The 2021 version of the Conference of Parties (that’s what COP stands for) likely heralds another round of geopolitical posturing, mudslinging and pledging from our world leaders.  The whole point of the COP events is to...

Gridcognition welcomes Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), David Koopmans, to their leadership team. This is a strategic hire that will strengthen the rapidly growing team, and David will lead the company's commercialisation and growth strategy.  David’s appointment is...

Adam Green, an energy engineer turned data scientist, joined Gridcognition as a Data Engineer in late 2020. Having recently returned to New Zealand after an eight year stint in the UK and Germany, which began with a masters in energy engineering, from the University...

Australian technology startup Gridcognition has announced a partnership with their first UK-based customer, expanding their modelling and optimisation capabilities to the UK energy market. SNRG will be using the Gridcognition simulation platform to design and optimise...

Alice joined the Gridcognition team in March 2021, and it's safe to say she hit the ground running! We thought it would be fun to get to know the team a little better, especially now that we're hiring (hint hint!) and Alice kindly agreed to be my first interview - if...

Gridcognition has been announced today as one of eight Australian businesses to receive a share of $3.9 million in funding through the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology.  Read the full announcement on Business.gov.au here Securing a total of $998k through...

Our job at Gridcognition is help our customers plan and optimise distributed energy projects.

The energy environment is changing rapidly, and energy projects have inherent uncertainty from multiple sources.

In the recent episode of the Interchange, Smarter Grid Solutions Podcast, host Shayle Kann spoke with Michael Terrell, Google’s Director of Energy about their goal to reach 24/7 Carbon Free Energy by 2030. When 100% isn’t 100% In 2017, Google became the first major...

The minimum viable product (MVP) is a concept deeply ingrained into startup culture. It's a response to the perfectionism that can slow down learning and innovation cycles, and by building MVPs instead of 'perfect' product, it can help startups understand if what they...

Today, countries representing 78% of global GDP have pledged net-zero emissions by 2060. And we hope that this level of commitment will rise significantly before the end of this decade. Energy from fossil fuels accounts for more than 70% of global emissions and, over...

Shifting the curve - analysing the effects of energy efficiency projects   Problem We've been mostly focused on optimising distributed energy assets at Gridcognition, including solar, storage and EV charging. We thought we'd use our Hackathon at last weeks...

  It was the one year anniversary of Gridcognition this month and we had our inaugural week-long company-wide retreat. This time it was virtual but we're hoping that our next one will be in-person. Gridcognition mission  We started the week talking about our...

Aussie energy tech startup Gridcogniton have closed a $675k pre-seed investment round this week with some of Australia’s leading tech and clean energy investors. From a standing start in February 2020, co-founders Fabian Le Gay Brereton and Pete Tickler have assembled...

There are three kinds of geeks at Gridcognition: energy geeks, data science geeks, and software geeks. I’m the third kind and I thought I’d share what I learnt last week when I was building a file uploader for Amazon S3. Making your own file uploader to s3 can be...

EnergyLab’s Scaleup Program has delivered its first clean energy collaboration, with New Zealand-based energy utility Counties Power and energy data startup Gridcognition launching a pilot study to understand large scale distributed energy resources (DER)...