Home energy management and community solar

Smart electrical panels and home chargers 2 companies

These companies make the equipment in a house that controls its circuits and charges its car.

SPANSPAN, with engineers in Bengaluru, makes a smart electrical panel that measures and controls each circuit in a house, and balances the solar panels, the battery and the car charger. Its Indian arm builds its software.BengaluruHiring now

ChargePointChargePoint, with engineers in Bengaluru and Delhi, makes chargers for homes and for fleets of electric vehicles.Bengaluru · Delhi NCRHiring nowSee alsoEV charging networks and battery swapping

The tech, explainedSmart electrical panel

Energy data and community solar 3 companies

These companies read customers' energy data for other apps, and sign up and manage the subscribers of shared solar plants.

ArcadiaArcadia, with engineers in Chennai, connects to customers' accounts at their electricity companies and supplies their bills and energy data to other companies' apps. It also runs community solar, in which homes subscribe to a share of a solar plant.ChennaiHired recently

Perch EnergyPerch Energy, with engineers in Chennai, signs up the subscribers of community solar plants and manages their accounts.

TTrillectricTrillectric, in Delhi, is another company that works on home energy.

The tech, explainedCommunity solar Utility data API

How it all worksRooftop solarUse, store or sell: the house as a power station.

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What's changing

The house that trades power.

A home with a battery can buy power when it is cheap and sell it when it is expensive, and software can do this automatically across thousands of homes. India's rooftop-solar programme is putting panels on millions of roofs; the next step is the software that makes those roofs part of the grid.