Overview
Founded in 2024, Powernaut builds software that aggregates distributed energy assets, such as batteries, solar installations, and flexible loads, into a coordinated Virtual Power Plant. This enables grid operators and energy traders to treat dispersed assets as a single dispatchable resource.
The EUR 2.4M raise, completed in 2024, funds the platform's development and initial market entry. Virtual Power Plant technology is gaining traction across Europe as grids absorb more intermittent renewables and flexibility becomes a tradable commodity.
Powernaut operates from Ghent and is part of the growing Belgian cleantech and energy technology cluster.
Funding history
- Round: EUR 2.4M (2024)
Key people
In the news
- Celebrating one year of intense collaboration between #LUKA, Powernaut and Trevion! Energy management follows the seasons. ☀️ Summer: we maximize the value of abundant solar energy. ⚡ Winter: we focus on buying electricity at the lowest possible cost. 🌱 Spring & autumn: we make the most of the energy the sun provides. 🔌 All year round: we help support the grid whenever we can. And now, the first #LUKA installations have completed a full 365-day cycle. The results? Impressive. But don't take our word for it. We want to show you
- Taking the stage at FLEXCON - The Energy Flexibility Conference like.. 😎 Florentijn Degroote will be up there introducing you to FlexOps. Welcome to our home turf. See you in Antwerp🇧🇪, 23 and 24 September.
- Do you support SolaX? Yes we do. Home inverters and batteries, straight into the Energy Operations Workspace™ through SolaxCloud. Monitoring, injection control and full curtailment, with no integration project on the retailer's side. No retailer signing up households gets to pick what is already on their wall, and being able to see and steer whatever is already in place is a part we make easy for them. SolaX Power is one of the brands on this list that keeps growing. Press release in the comments ↓
- The next phase will not be won by adding megawatts alone." Florentijn Degroote, in Grid Innovation by Enlit The Netherlands hit that wall first. Three lessons from it: ⚡ Plan flexibility alongside grid expansion, not after it ⚡ Modernise the operating layer before the portfolio outgrows it ⚡ Build open, so operators keep control of their assets and existing hardware Five minute read..or so →
- If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat" is basically law by now. Three new teammates joined ours and none of them asked about legroom 🚀 ───────────── Tony P. walks, does tai chi and chases anything with a racket 🎾 On the side he does Energy Strategy & Commercial Development at Powernaut, with 10+ years in energy sustainability and standards, helping energy companies automate the operational work and get more value out of their assets. His motto, "Treat everyone as you would like to be treated". Hard to
- Sending a curtailment command is easy..finding out whether the site obeyed you is the awkward part 😬 DSG runs 350 MW of solar and batteries. Their old setup dropped out often enough that control and curtailment went with it, which makes an activation more of a hope with a timestamp on it. Now the data comes in, the control goes out, and the health of every system is watched while it happens. 90 seconds with Martijn → https://lnkd.in/eXrgZ3Fx
- Operate every asset. Reach every market. Prove every outcome The middle one just got a lot shorter 😎 Powernaut is now an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner of Nord Pool, which puts day-ahead and intraday, across every country they operate, inside the Energy Operations Workspace ™. Your portfolio and your market access living in the same place. The trading and positions stays yours and we handle the plumbing. Full announcement below ↓
- You call it an eclipse, we call it 'Peak shading' 🌒 Full or partial, enjoy it wherever you are.
Backers
Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive is a venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups, with four funds raised totaling €250K-2M in first-check investments, and a portfolio of over 70 companies backed globally.
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