FlexCharging

We manage electric vehicle charging, so drivers charge with clean power more cheaply, and electric utilities avoid building new power plants.

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Redmond, WA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2016
  • Employees 10
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website flexcharging.com

Company Summary

Electric cars can help the power grid, or they can break it. FlexCharging shifts when electric vehicles charge to the best time of day to lower prices and reduce carbon emissions. No hardware required.
With enough cars, utilities avoid locking in hundreds of millions on new power plants. Utilities pay drivers to sign up, pay us, and keep rates low. Drivers save money on time-of-use rates & carbon.
We're operating projects in US & Australia.

Team

  • Brian Grunkemeyer
    Founder

    Microsoft, Principal Software Engineer, Big Data Team
    - Operated Azure Data Lake and Cosmos, running compute jobs for Microsoft & external customers
    Sierra Club Energy Committee chair, Washington State
    - Worked on the economic case for shutting down a coal plant.
    - Got an agreement to shut down half of the dirtiest coal plant in the West.
    - Actively drove Puget Sound Energy's 20 year Integrated Resource Plan to price out coal.

  • Laura McCarty
    Chief Operating Officer

    Energy Trading experience for 20+ years.
    Local-E - Founder
    Drift - Director of Power Operations
    Energy Trading Technologies, Inc - President

  • Ken Nichols
    Account Director

    20+ years experience in renewable energy development and demand response programs

    EQL Energy - Principal
    InvEnergy - Manager, Renewable Development
    PureSense - VP, Energy Management
    EcoFYS - Director working on Demand Response programs
    TransCanada - Director, Finance & Risk Management
    Pacific Gas & Electric - Director, Finance & Risk Management

  • Charles Martey
    Dev Manager

    11 years developing software
    Dev team management
    Expertise in micro-services & distributed systems engineering

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