COI Energy solves a conundrum Letting businesses sell unused electricity catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
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- SaLisa Berrien spent 25 years as an energy engineer at major utility companies.
- She learned how to use big data to optimize energy efficiency.
- But no one was addressing the basic problem: Companies were reserving, and paying for, far more energy than they used.
- COI’s solution is a marketplace where enterprises within the same utility company can sell some of their energy allotment when COI's data predicts they won’t need it.COI installs a patented energy gateway at every customer site to measure energy usage.
- It is hardware-agnostic, meaning it can work with any existing utility or building energy system.
When it comes to supplying electricity to large enterprises with multibuilding campuses, the allocation system is archaic. Unlike homeowners, who pay for what they actually use, campuses buy a stand [+4622 chars]
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