ClearGrid is a start-up company founded by utility industry veterans and data mining experts. The firm is focused to providing advanced data analytics and integration tools for solar companies and utilities. ClearGrid gathers and analyze imagery to help utilities manage their distribution poles more effectively, respond to storms and outages, and manage vegetation on the distribution network. The approach employed is to identify the key factors in energy decision making and recommend the appropriate courses of action to customers, solar companies, and energy utilities. In the space of Solar-Utility Integration, ClearGrid model key changes in customers' uses of energy, including the use of distributed energy resources, to recommend whether solar would be a good fit. Using novel techniques, the effort is to enable solar companies tter wi to integrate beth utility systems using and to enable client customers monitor the return on investment they are experiencing from solar installations.
