Listen to this articleBelow is our recent interview with Mischa Steiner, CEO of Awesense:
Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to your company?
A: Awesense was founded in 2009 in Vancouver, BC, with the mission to decarbonize the world’s largest machine, the energy grid. Since then, Awesense has developed and is now a Digital Energy Platform. We enable the decarbonization and decentralization of the energy system through data. Awesense works with the utilities and large industrials to virtualize, analyze and understand their complex systems, integrate renewables, and help them modernize and power the energy grid of tomorrow.
Q: Any highlights on your recent announcement?
A: The recent announcement of the Digital Energy Marketplace, is the first of its kind marketplace solely focused on accelerating the decarbonization of the energy system. If we are to truly limit global warming to 2 degrees centigrade, the approaches we have been using so far are not enough. We need more collaboration between technologies, vendors and utilities in order to be able to build and test new solutions, integrate more renewables, all while maintaining a reliable, safe power supply and grid stability. The Digital Energy Marketplace enables that collaboration, and gives vendors the ability to more effectively collaborate, integrate their solutions, and for utilities and industrials to quickly test out these solutions.
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Q: Can you give us more insights into your offering?
A: Awesense provides the Digital Energy Platform which is built of three major components, The Awesense Data Engine, The Awesense Open Energy Data Model, and True Grid Intelligence.
Our Data Engine is a scalable, secure data processing engine that cleans up and synchronizes data from many different sources, and ensures that this cleansed, synchronized time-series data is linked to geospatial data.
The data ingested into the platform is populated into the Open Energy Data Model, which is an energy-focused data model. Using this data model, our customers and partners build applications, analytics and algorithms, allowing them to create custom tools used to analyze their energy systems in different ways. These applications and analytics can also be utilized across other utilities and jurisdictions, so repeated work can be removed.
True Grid Intelligence is the front-end component of our platform. Our customers use pre-built applications and visualizations to extract actionable insights from their data and inform decision making in multiple focus points in their energy operations.
Q: What can we expect from your company in the next 6 months? What are your plans?
A: Awesense expects to continue to grow rapidly as we help our customers and partners scale their solutions across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Pacific. Our focus is shifting almost entirely in the direction of enabling rapid integration of renewables and electric vehicles into the energy system, and expect this trend to continue, given various policies introduced across the world, including the Biden Infrastructure Plan, and NextGenerationEU.
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Q: What is the best thing about your company that people might not know about?
A: What is the best thing about your company that people might not know about?
Although we’re a Canadian company and almost entirely Vancouver-based, we’re an incredibly diverse team, with over 60% of our team originally from outside of Canada. We bring many different perspectives, cultures, and experiences to the table, which benefits our company and customers in many different ways.
