Restaurant Facility Business

Savings From Day One

Raul Dominguez is a successful Wendy’s franchise owner in Miami. With the skyrocketing cost of energy over the last several years, controlling energy use and expense is a priority issue for Dominguez and other franchisees in the region. Read More

Fierce Smart Grid

Eaton and GridPoint Develop EV Management Technology

Eaton Corporation and GridPoint, Inc., have announced an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) software licensing collaboration to deliver networking monitoring and intelligent charging applications for Eaton's electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) offering. Read More

Thomas Net News  

Getting Charged Up About Electric Cars 

Why does it always seem like the greenest ideas with the best intentions can’t jump out of the starting gate? More often than not it comes down to lack of distribution. If sustainable practices and products are hard to find, there is little reason to become an early adopter. Perhaps understanding this dilemma all too well, the electric vehicle (EV) industry is getting charged up with its distribution efforts. Read More

Renew Grid

Eaton, GridPoint Working On EV Intelligence 

Eaton Corp. and GridPoint Inc. have formed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) software licensing collaboration to deliver network monitoring and intelligent charging applications for Eaton's electric vehicle (EV) solutions. Read More 

Affordable Housing Finance

Solar Boosts Energy Savings at Texas Project

The Central Texas Housing Consortium, a public housing development serving seniors and disabled residents in Central Texas, selected Arlington, Va.-based GridPoint to implement the solar energy solution. Read More

Renew Grid  

GridPoint, Siemens Teaming Up To Provide Energy-Management Solutions  

GridPoint, a provider of smart energy solutions, says it has signed a reseller agreement with Siemens for energy-management and submetering solutions. Read More

Integrated Solutions for Retailers

Wendium Case Study

Raul Dominguez, President and CEO of Wendium of Florida watched his franchises’ energy bills increase by $2,000 in just two years. To control costs and conserve energy, Dominguez decided to install energy management systems at each location. Dominguez evaluated a GridPoint EMS, including submetering and lighting control. Based on the success of the pilot, he has installed a GridPoint EMS in each of his franchise locations.  Read More

T.H.E Journal

Texas Middle School Tarets 'Net Zero  Energy' With 582 KW Solar Plant  

This summer Lady Bird Johnson Middle School, part if Irving Independent School District in Texas, will go online with a new 582 kilowatt solar installation. The move is part of a plan to make the school the largest "net zero middle school in the United States," according to the district. Read More

Clean Energy Authority  

Lady Bird Johnson Middle School to Produce More Energy Than it Uses    

When Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving, Texas, opens in August, a 583-kilowatt solar photovoltaic installation will help to make it the largest net-zero school in the country. Read More

Earth Techling

Net Zero School Gets Sophisticated Solar

Irving Independent School District has announced it will be working with GridPoint to design, engineer and install the school’s 582 kilowatt solar panel system. Read More

Nation's Restaurant News

Going Green to Save

It was an ever-increasing utility bill rather than environmental consciousness that prompted Wendy's franchisee Raul Dominguez to find better ways to conserve energy in his restaurant. Read More

Postal Service Turns to GridPoint to Cut Energy Use

The U.S. Postal Service has tapped Arlington-based GridPoint to help the agency reduce its energy use by supplying a technology designed to centrally manage energy consumption from remote locations. The company said the deal, which is worth up to $28.8 million, marks GridPoint's largest contract with the government to date. Read More

Greenwire

U.S. Postal Service, GridPoint ink $28M deal  

GridPoint Executive Vice President John Clark said the installations would include hardware that allows users to more finely control the operations of heating, cooling and lighting systems, and software that provides visibility into how individual components and the whole system are using energy. Read More

GridPoint CEO, Peter L. Corsell, explains how GridPoint's smart charging software is being used to integrate electric vehicles to the grid. Watch the Video

Reuters

GridPoint to Play Traffic Cop for Vehicle Charging

GridPoint has been busy lining up partnerships with many of the largest utilities during their ongoing EV trials, and this week added CabAire, eVco, Plug Smart Intelligent Energy Solutions and eTec as charging equipment partners. The eTec relationship encompasses more than 12,000 charging stations that are being set up in cities across the U.S., which are partially funded by the DOE. Read More

Earth2Tech

Top 15 Smart Grid Influencers

By some accounts, the build-out of the smart grid could be the biggest driver of wealth within the decade and create an even larger market than the emergence of the Internet. Earth2Tech selected GridPoint CEO Peter L. Corsell as one of the top 15 most influential people in the smart grid space.  Read More

SmartGridNews.com

Hometown Connections Chooses GridPoint for Software Platform

Hometown Connections, a utility services subsidiary of APPA, has entered into an exclusive arrangement with GridPoint to use their software platform for Smart Grid services and energy savings. SmartGridNews has been talking for years about the importance of a unifying Smart Grid platform. GridPoint has been on that path for a while now. This announcement is an important validation. Read More

TheStar.com

Old and new players chase smart-grid technology

GridPoint has developed a software platform that helps utilities go through the complex task of integrating renewable energy, energy storage and even electric cars into the grid. At the same time, it is empowering homeowners and businesses by giving them detailed information of their energy use while also allowing them to reduce consumption based on market signals. Read More

Earth Magazine

Making electric grids smarter

Under GridPoint’s platform, utility companies could even shut down certain appliances at peak load based on historical data of consumer aggregate usage habits. (Consumers would get to approve or override such moves.) And with more investment in smart grid technology now than ever, experts say that not even the economic crisis can slow smart grids down. Read More

Associated Press

5 green investing trends to watch

In a report released March 2009, Clean Edge Inc., a research and publishing firm, summarized five major trends. The recently published report, "Clean Energy Trends 2009" selected GridPoint as a “company to watch” in the Smart Grid software trend. Read More

Nightly Business Report

President Obama Gets Into The Green of Things

If a smart grid is the road to our energy future, the engineers at GridPoint are laying the pavement. They're developing devices and software to make electricity cheaper and more efficient. Read More / Watch Video