Our Innovation Analysts recently looked into emerging technologies and up-and-coming startups working on innovative solutions for the energy sector. As there is a large number of startups working on a wide variety of solutions, we want to share our insights with you. This time, we are taking a look at 5 promising power voltage regulation startups.
Heat Map: 5 Top Power Voltage Regulation Startups
Using our StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering 1.379.000+ startups & scaleups globally, we looked at innovation in the field of energy. For this research, we identified 43 relevant solutions and picked 5 to showcase below. These companies were chosen based on a data-driven startup scouting approach, taking into account factors such as location, founding year, and relevance of technology, among others. Depending on your specific criteria, the top picks might look entirely different.
The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights 5 startups & scaleups developing innovative solutions for power voltage regulation. Moreover, the Heat Map reveals regions that observe a high startup activity and illustrates the geographic distribution of all 43 companies we analyzed for this specific topic.
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Edge Electrons – Power Factor Monitoring
Contemporary energy industry trends focus on the implementation of smart grid technologies and the widespread integration of renewables. These trends encourage utilities and network operators to enhance their transmission and distribution capacities, especially for high, medium, and low voltage transformers. Startups are also looking to develop power factor monitoring hardware for transformers. These solutions ensure that power and voltage quality parameters, at each part of the grid, are capable of addressing increasing industry and consumer demand.
Australian startup Edge Electrons addresses the issues of grid predictive maintenance, theft prevention, and power factor correction. The startup’s real-time eSensor hardware and software solution allows grid operators to achieve continuous visibility into transformer assets. Moreover, the solution also monitors the power factor, prevents over- and under-voltage, as well as minimizes outages time.
InPhase – Harmonic Filtering
When planning new and maintaining existing distribution grid systems, it is crucial to observe the effects of current harmonic dynamics on asset performance. Harmonic filtering equipment keeps track of and also mitigates the negative influence of harmonic frequencies to perpetuate the required power quality. Emerging companies focus on creating novel harmonic filters to regulate voltage problems in modern grid facilities.
Indian startup InPhase manufactures a diversity of active harmonic filter units for energy grid and industrial needs. The company intends to solve harmonics- and unbalanced compensation-related problems with solutions based on insular-gate bipolar transistors (IGBT). These are engineered to resist challenging climates and temperature conditions, as well as to enable closed-loop control and execute a thorough filtering algorithm.
Switched Source – Reactive Power Management
Energy distribution entities heavily rely on a vast number of supporting devices for normal operation. Therefore, the coordination of reactive power and voltage among them becomes a challenging task, given general distribution efficiency pressures. Emerging startups elaborate on new electronic devices to sustain the balance of real and reactive power. This further ensures sufficient reactive power reserve for stable distribution grid functioning
The US-based startup Switched Source offers Tie Controller, a valve-based power electronics system for reactive power management and further distribution automation. The system allows operators to govern the bi-directional flow of real and reactive power amounts and maintain the required reserve for higher electricity supply reliability. Tie Controller also empowers asset interconnection, acting as a plug-and-play system.
Pacific Volt – Low-Voltage Optimization
Innovations in distributed energy resources (DERs), smart home technologies, and smart meters are expanding. However, these also create new voltage and current management challenges for low-voltage networks that lie close to direct energy consumers and prosumers. Emerging companies address the issues of low-voltage optimization with novel voltage regulators and other connected software.
The US-based startup Pacific Volt develops an intelligent voltage control and optimization system for low-voltage distribution grids. The startup’s AC regulators intend to attain sufficient power quality, energy conservation, cost efficiency, while also complying with industry standards. The regulators further allow grids to manage power & voltage flows with high speed and precision.
Empower Semiconductor – Integrated Voltage Regulation
Conventional power voltage regulation systems often involve a lot of separate components with complex schematics and vast footprints. Startups and scaleups work on new topologies for power voltage regulators, namely, integrated or advanced embedded solutions. These solutions address smart grid requirements, as well as engage with more technologies, including the Internet of Things, smart mobility, artificial intelligence (AI), and computing.
Californian startup Empower Semiconductor develops an integrated voltage regulation solution with a single integrated circuit (IC). The solution eliminates the complexity of combining numerous distinct components in a voltage regulation system, compared to conventional counterparts. Empower Semiconductors integrates a triple-output DC/DC power supply for applications in power facilities, data centers, autonomous vehicles, etc.
What About The Other 38 Solutions?
While we believe data is key to creating insights it can be easy to be overwhelmed by it. Our ambition is to create a comprehensive overview and provide actionable innovation intelligence and enable you to achieve your goals faster. The 5 power voltage regulation startups showcased above are promising examples out of 43 we analyzed for this article. To identify the most relevant solutions based on your specific criteria, get in touch.
