Top Smart Grid Startups in 2026

Ohmconnect is a software based power plant. Instead of turning on a dirty coal or gas power plant during times of peak demand, Ohmconnect has hundreds of users reduce their electricity. Best part is that instead of paying dirty gas power plants to turn on, ohmconnect can pay its users to turn down. When users sign up, they are told when to reduce their electricity. If they participate, their energy reductions can be sold into the markets as additional generation. Ohmconnect hooks into users' wifi thermostats, electric cars, and smart devices to automate these reductions. Our users are presented with a clean visualization of where their energy is coming from and where their energy is going. For each event that they participate in, they earn Ohmconnect points which can be cashed out at any time.

Amperon is the leading analytics and forecasting company for the energy transition. We are venture-backed with support from leading venture and strategic investors who deeply understand energy and software. We are experiencing rapid growth on the back of a killer product that delivers compelling value for energy market participants on both the supply (power & utilities companies) and demand (large energy users) sides of the market. The company is 6 years old, with co-founders that have fused the best-of-breed from the energy (power trader at leading power generators and financials) and technology (data science and engineering at scaling tech companies) industries into a high-performance culture, with the following core values: • We fill in the blanks • We are reliable • We are customer-aligned • We are relentless • We do the hard things • We stay curious The company’s headquarters is Houston, TX, the energy transition capital of the world, but we operate as a highly effective distributed team, spread across the globe.

ChargeLab builds an open software platform for managing EV charging stations. Our platform leverages intelligent charging to improve how we move, work, and live. Electric vehicles are a breakthrough exponential technology. But our electric grid is not ready for the mass adoption of EVs. EVs will double electricity consumption around the world in the next two decades. This is a billion dollar problem. While others focus on electric vehicle charging hardware, we are focused entirely on software and data. Our software connects to EV chargers to gather usage data, manage electricity loads, and act as a platform for payments and transactions. We are the common language spoken between charging stations, vehicles, and the grid. In the future, when all energy is renewable and all vehicles are connected, we will be the hub for communication, transactions, and data.

Our mission is to drive rapid decarbonization in global transport and power sectors by intelligently connecting electric vehicles to the grid. Our software uses predictive analytics and systems optimization to make it cheaper and safer for utilities to support the growth of electric vehicles, increase renewable energy adoption, and save customers money. Weave Grid is backed by premier energy-focused venture investors. Join us to tackle one of the biggest challenges and business opportunities of this century.

Acculon Energy is a one-stop shop for energy storage programs. Developing and deploying lithium batteries requires systems-level, full stack engineering expertise and broad capabilities to execute. Our 300,000 hours of battery program experience enable vehicle and battery OEMs to go further, faster, safer.

LineVision is accelerating the net zero grid by equipping our utility partners with unique monitoring and analytics that improve the capacity, resilience, and safety of the grid.

CleanSpark brings clean, sustainable energy solutions to institutional, commercial, industrial, and community scale customers by providing integration, installation, and operation/maintenance services for preferred technology partners and platforms.  Through its flagship clean energy enterprise platform, the flex Power System, CleanSpark offers an innovative array of energy solutions solutions that significantly reduce customers energy costs while providing the benefit of clean energy security. CleanSpark saves customers on energy costs.  CleanSpark brings power where previously unavailable.  

We blend industry-leading research, data science, and consulting services
to help utilities make and implement better, data-driven decisions that positively impact their customers, their bottom line, and our planet.

Voltry is building power quality intelligence for modern grid and data center infrastructure. As compute density increases and electrical loads become more dynamic, traditional approaches to monitoring and managing power quality are no longer sufficient. Disturbances such as harmonics, distortion, and transient events increasingly affect reliability, efficiency, and long-term system behavior across large electrical environments. Our work focuses on understanding how modern compute loads interact with power systems, how disturbances propagate through complex electrical networks, and how these effects can be measured, modeled, and predicted. This includes research into signal behavior, system-level dynamics, and analytical approaches to interpreting power quality data at scale. Voltry is a research-driven company. We work at the intersection of power systems engineering, signal analysis, and data-driven modeling, with an emphasis on real-world infrastructure relevance. Our goal is to develop deeper visibility into power quality behavior and provide the foundations for more resilient and efficient electrical systems.