Rayburn is one of the growing number of Grid Status customers that are paying the company to co-develop the products they need to track what’s happening on the grid, said Tyler Lancaster, a partner at Energize.
“Data centers, virtual power plants, consumer-electricity-oriented companies — there are hundreds of thousands of parties that need to understand the grid, and do so in a much more technology-forward manner,” he said. “If Grid Status can serve that vision, we’re talking about a much more valuable enterprise down the road.”
Other Grid Status users are tapping into the company’s free data resources, which include dashboards and graphing tools that allow users to track and analyze various grid metrics nationwide, from record-high renewables generation to pricing. The company’s data has been featured in reporting by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and other publications — including Canary Media — and is a regular source of data for energy analysts’ social media posts.
“It’s in the public interest to have a tool like Grid Status that provides a valuable service — one place where you can go and get a consistent dashboard of what’s going on,” said Ric O’Connell, founding executive director of nonprofit analysis group GridLab, which provided financial support for some of Grid Status’s early-stage work.