Voltus, founded in 2016, builds a distributed energy platform that connects any distributed energy resource to any energy market across the United States and Canada. Operating as a virtual power plant, the company pays energy users to reduce or shift electricity consumption when the grid is stressed, helping to prevent blackouts while generating revenue for commercial, industrial, and residential customers.
Work at the company spans a set of technical domains including distributed energy resources, demand response, virtual power plants, energy storage, electric vehicle integration, energy efficiency, distributed generation, and grid flexibility and reliability. The Voltus distributed energy platform is designed to maximise the value of flexible load, distributed generation, storage and EV resources, serving energy users as well as utilities and grid operators.
The company reports thousands of customers and coverage of all nine major North American energy markets, and describes itself as the fastest-growing demand response provider of all time. Voltus is a fully remote organisation and states its mission as building a decarbonized, distributed, decentralized, and digitized energy system.
