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Our Power-Ready Industrial Portfolio puts certified battery storage and power controls on site before a tenant signs. Full power from day one, no utility wait, no stranded assets.
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If your California project is waiting on power, look at flexible interconnection now. Substation slots are limited, and once they’re filled, you’re back to waiting years for the utility. Our Cygnus controller is approved to connect sites through PG&E’s Flex Connect. Message us.
We're on @FastCompany's 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list for Sustainability and Energy. It caps a big stretch: Cygnus just joined @PGE4Me's Flex Connect approved provider list, and we've added 50+ MWh of capacity for customers who couldn't wait years for power.
Full list: fastcompany.com/91612652/sus… #FCTechAwards
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@critical_loop mega grids reporting for duty.
Cygnus, our software-defined power controller, has achieved CSIP 2030.5 certification and completed interoperability testing with @PGE4Me, joining its list of Flex Connect Approved Solution Providers.
With our existing UL 3141 listing, Cygnus is the first power controller to the market to hold both, with compatibility across PG&E and Southern California utilities.
With Cygnus, facilities draw full grid power when capacity is available and use on-site storage at peak to stay within the utility's hourly limits.
We're onboarding C&I customers across California now, with a path to full operations in months.
Full announcement: criticalloop.com/news/blog/f…
The week, our team attended #ClimateWeekNYC 2026 ⚡Threading a few of our biggest takeaways from the event.
Geothermal and SMRs of up to 150 MW are starting to scale, and we’re working with next-gen power providers on the interconnection to bring them online fast. Meanwhile, BESS and solar+storage keep firming the grid, and the industry needs better ways to measure their value beyond cost savings, including speed to power and risk mitigation.
#ClimateWeekNYC brings a lot of great people together to talk about the future of energy. We're glad to be part of it.
We'll be in the city, hoping to connect with as many of you as we can in person.
In New York and want to talk shop? DM us.
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We keep trying to fix the grid by building more of it. @rocket_bala thinks we're missing the easier win: getting more out of the grid we already have.
A lot of companies are talking about the power problem. We're the ones fixing it, and we could use more hands.
Hiring engineers across hardware, manufacturing, quality, test, firmware, and electrical.
Equity, flexible health coverage, a 401(k), PTO we actually want you to take.
Open roles: criticalloop.com/careers
Our Head of Hardware, Chip Leigh, is speaking at the Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum in Houston on 9/17. It's a topic he lives day to day: testing hardware on a bench until it's proven, so it performs reliably the moment it reaches a real site.
Details: etvf.rice.edu #ETVF26
Two industrial facilities in California needed 20 megawatts, but the utility could only commit to 7.
Because the customer runs on shifts, battery storage covers the difference, dispatched by Cygnus, our grid-interactive controller.
The same approach runs the San Diego Airport project: 4MW of solar and 4MWh of batteries coordinated across a live campus, saving the airport millions over the contract.
Our CEO @rocket_bala talked through both projects this week on the Clean Power Hour pod with @tgmontague.
youtu.be/Ot-Hy-lkAy0?si=_DFY…
Our CEO @rocket_bala joined NYSE Wired's Powering Tomorrow with @GemmaAllenSays to explain how we double power availability for large load users: batteries at the point of consumption, pulling in available grid power and releasing it when demand peaks.
Thanks to @theCUBE, @furrier, and @bjbaumann2014 .
youtu.be/3iUx4Z4souY?si=ttl4… #NYSEWired
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People ask me why Tesla or Eaton hasn't already built what we're doing. I addressed that this week on NYSE Wired's Powering Tomorrow with @GemmaAllenSays: at @critical_loop, we orchestrate across manufacturers and take on the operations and maintenance layer most companies would rather avoid.
Thanks @theCUBE, @Furrier, and @bjbaumann2014.
youtu.be/3iUx4Z4souY?si=ttl4…
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The average energy project now takes 61 months to go from interconnection request to commercial operation, roughly double what it took in 2015. I spoke with @forbes about what that means for businesses trying to grow.
This problem is no longer confined to data centers. Any capital-intensive business that needs rapid access to power, manufacturing, EV fleets, airports, commercial real estate, feels it just as acutely.
The fix is combining what the grid already provides with on-site storage and software that shifts between the two in real time, drawing maximum grid power when it’s available and relying on reserves when it’s constrained. Energy has to be treated as a dynamic operational variable.
Full piece: forbes.com/sites/ray-fernand…
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@Am_Transmission, the American Transmission Leadership and Security project, is rethinking how we build energy infrastructure for the next century of American industrial growth.
Today they're launching the first American ATLAS, an anthology of 20+ founders. I wrote one of the essays, on why more wires alone won't solve the power crunch.
[2/] If you're in SF, I'll be at tonight's book launch at Presidio Bitcoin. Would love to see you there.
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