Boston – MassVentures today announced the 2016 START (SBIR Targeted Technologies) program winners with $3,000,000 to be awarded in grant funding to NewGrid, Inc. and 16 other cutting edge Massachusetts companies. NewGrid, Inc. is awarded the START Stage I funding for commercialization efforts related to NewGrid Router, a transmission optimization

Today, the Baker-Polito Administration announced $280,000 in funding for NewGrid, Inc. and six other researchers and companies developing innovative clean energy and water technologies across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The funding comes from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) Catalyst program, which provides funding to early-stage researchers and companies as

Dr. Pablo Ruiz, CEO and CTO of NewGrid, recently discussed the impact of topology optimization on PJM day-ahead markets at the FERC Technical Conference on Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead Market Efficiency through Improved Software. Results of simulations on the PJM system under historical conditions indicate substantial reductions in day-ahead market

NewGrid is participating in the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial in San Francisco as one of the ARPA-E awardee teams. CEM7 is a gathering of global energy policymakers, experts, and business innovators. Energy ministers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea,

View printer-friendly version Somerville, MA – May 3, 2016 – Today NewGrid, Inc. announced its membership within Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech startup incubator in the United States. With nearly 50 member companies on-site, Greentown Labs is a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who are working to solve the world’s biggest

NewGrid was recently featured in a Greentech Media article on grid innovation. The article focuses on ARPA-E’s goal of increasing flexibility in the grid through advances in software; such flexibility becomes increasingly important as the grid shifts to more sustainable sources of electricity. The article can be read in its

NewGrid is participating in the 2016 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit as one of the Technology Showcase teams. This is the fourth consecutive year that we have attended the ARPA-E summit. To arrange a meeting with us, please contact us at contact@newgridinc.com or come visit us at booth 720, near the

NewGrid president Dr. Pablo Ruiz presented on topology control technology and its benefits to transmission companies at the WIRES Summer Meeting 2015 in Boston, MA. For more details, please see the WIRES presentation or contact us at contact@newgridinc.com

Pablo Ruiz, president of NewGrid, recently presented simulations results on the application of topology control technology on Day-Ahead market and outage coordination. Results of the simulations on the PJM system indicate significant reductions in market production costs and transmission overloads. For more details, please see the FERC presentation or contact

NewGrid president Pablo Ruiz, also research associate professor at Boston University, was recently featured in Popular Science for leading a team of researchers in an effort to address congestion on the nation’s transmission grid, which increases costs and potentially reduces reliability. Dr. Ruiz’s software design provides the ability to detect