GridBeyond was founded in 2010 focused on demand response programs and associated services currently being present in Ireland, UK, the US, Canada, Japan and Australia.

GridBeyond works with grid operators, intensive energy users, suppliers, distribution networks and battery providers to help balance the grid by finding flexibility on facilities while delivering savings, revenues and sustainability goals fulfillment to consumers. This is accomplished by optimization of energy consumption on business facilities to participate in demand response programs.

Their platform, called GridBeyond Point, connects operational, generation and storage assets to automatically manage energy flexibility. It's composed of three areas:

• TouchPoint panel sits on the customers' site, and is either physically or wirelessly connected to assets. Those assets can be controlled as data is passed from the asset into the cloud-based platform.
• CentrePoint collates data from several sources, including site assets, and uses machine-learning algorithms to automatically place flexibility in the program to generate the best returns.
• ViewPoint is the window into energy activity happening on the site. ViewPoint shows programs, DSR revenues, savings and trades and benchmarking graphs and data on each asset to inform efficiency.

The company has deployed its platform at over 900 sites actively controlling flexible demand focused on large C&I facilities.

No upfront cost for either hardware and software installation, as well as the monitoring and control of the systems. GridBeyond takes a share of balancing services payouts.

GridBeyond Point gathers data from several sources and uses machine learning to simultaneously ascertain the best way to use customer's energy flexibility both from the customer side and the energy market. It also forecasts and automates energy controls based on several sources, including:

• Aggregated site data
• Individual site data
• Individual asset data
• Grid frequency data
• Historical grid data
• Pricing from the balancing mechanism
• Weather forecasts
• Historical weather data

GridBeyond platform enables companies to participate in Demand Response programs with a 5-stage process composed of:

1. Asset identification - Identification of suitable assets for DR programs and establish the parameters of responses.

2. Journey plan - Plan development, from proposal to installation, third party requirements, and delivery of revenues and savings by placing flexibility capacity in the best program for optimum returns whilst ensuring operational integrity.

3. Installation - The software is hardware agnostic and the company can either install new energy control hardware or use the hardware currently in place if it fit for purpose.

4. Real-time response - Once testing is complete, GridBeyond will connect the site directly to their demand-side network to enable participation without impact on operations. The system works so that the customer's site and asset parameters will be respected and in some programs, there's also the possibility to override the automation if needed.

5. Reward - Within one month, clients start receiving payments from the grid, see savings on their next energy bill, and experience operational efficiencies. Other benefits include DSR & balancing services, price optimization, asset optimization and monitoring & analysis