Energy, Water & Utilities
Sector stage: DemonstratedEnergy, Water & Utilities The deepest foundation of abundance.
Clean Energy Automation
Generation, storage, grids, and water only deliver abundance if something coordinates them as one system.
Building it: DOE Grid Modernization Initiative, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Solar Systems
Sunlight is free at the point of generation, distributed almost everywhere, and scalable from a rooftop to a utilit…
Building it: First Solar, Tesla Energy, DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO)
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Wind Systems
Wind is one of the largest sources of new electricity in the country — abundant, fuel-free, and increasingly cheap.
Building it: Siemens Gamesa, DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Nuclear Systems
A civilization-scale automated economy needs reliable electricity at massive scale — and nuclear can provide firm, …
Building it: NuScale Power, X-energy, Kairos Power
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Geothermal Systems
The Earth holds an enormous, steady reservoir of heat that doesn’t depend on sunlight, wind timing, or fuel deliver…
Building it: Fervo Energy, Sage Geosystems, Ormat Technologies
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Hydroelectric Systems
Hydroelectric infrastructure sits at the intersection of electricity, water security, flood protection, and grid re…
Building it: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DOE Water Power Technologies Office
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Power Grids
The grid is the largest machine ever built — and most of it still runs on decades-old equipment that can’t see itse…
Building it: DOE Grid Modernization Initiative, Grid Deployment Office, Technology & research
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Microgrids
When the big grid fails — in a hurricane, wildfire, heat wave, or cyber incident — hospitals, water plants, shelter…
Building it: Schneider Electric, Siemens, ABB
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Energy Storage
Clean generation alone doesn’t guarantee reliable power — the sun sets and the wind shifts.
Building it: Tesla, Form Energy, ESS Inc
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Battery Systems
Batteries make electricity portable, controllable, and dispatchable — they’re what lets clean power serve real huma…
Building it: Tesla, LG Energy Solution, Form Energy
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Water Systems
Water isn’t just another utility — it’s the foundation beneath life, health, food, sanitation, firefighting, and pu…
Building it: American Water, Badger Meter, EPA
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Wastewater Treatment
Public health depends on wastewater treatment working continuously — and treated well, wastewater isn’t waste at al…
Building it: SUEZ, EPA
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Desalination
Where drought and scarcity threaten homes, farms, and hospitals, desalination can turn seawater and brackish water …
Building it: IDE Technologies, Poseidon Water, Energy Recovery Inc
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Stormwater & Flood Prevention
Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster in the country — and much of the harm is preventable with b…
Building it: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, NOAA
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Utility Maintenance
A system that waits until a transformer burns, a pipe bursts, or a sewer overflows forces the public to pay the hig…
Building it: AVEVA, Sentient Energy, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Explore →DemonstratedAutomated Air Quality & Environmental Monitoring
Families don’t experience pollution as a technical category — they experience it as asthma attacks, wildfire smoke,…
Building it: EPA, NASA’s TEMPO, NOAA
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