We’re Building a Unique Playbook
We’re Building a Unique Playbook
How might we accelerate a new model for powering California homes? We leverage design-thinking, industry experts, and agile development sprints to produce usable research that catalyzes real-world impact. All of our work is based on real-world insights developed together with real people.
Current Projects
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
CA is at a crossroads, where home energy costs are getting more expensive and energy delivery less reliable. The legacy grid has enjoyed a monopoly to date, but DER’s are outpacing the grid and disrupting the current policy paradigm. We need a YIMBY-like movement for distributed home energy. This project is building that framework, creating a more effective path for a new deal between CA regulators and the DER movement.
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
The transition to a decentralized, electrified grid is stalled by a simple, profound problem: we don't speak the same language. Utilities, DER providers, regulators, and homeowners all use different terms for the same concepts. This isn't just semantics; it's a structural barrier to progress. This project builds the Rosetta Stone for home electrification. It's an open-source ontology designed not as a rigid, top-down standard, but as a living, evolving language for clear communication.
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
California homes are increasingly incentivized to self-consume energy to save cost and increase resiliency to grid outages. Rooftop solar paired with battery storage offers a promising approach, however this technology is intermittently available and subject to nighttime and winter conditions. A new class of residential fuel-cell offers a complementary approach to solar, generating energy from natural gas, propane, or hydrogen to augment energy production during periods of low solar resource.
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
2025
A New Deal for California Energy: Building an evidence-based policy framework to accelerate the integration of abundant energy through DER’s
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
2025
Golden Grid: A ground-truth ontology and common language to model the physics, finances, and policies of home electrification
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
2025
Maximum Resiliency: Exploring the limits of residential self-consumption in CA with solar, battery storage, and on-demand fuel cells
2025
Past Projects
Each development sprint produces open-source material — code, designs, prototypes, publications — designed to spark conversations and speed up progress. This material is hosted by the Agile Electrification community and presented at our annual event at the Design Lab.
Solar and Electrification: Flexible Pathways for Energy Independent Homes in California
2024
Solar and Electrification: Flexible Pathways for Energy Independent Homes in California
2024
Solar and Electrification: Flexible Pathways for Energy Independent Homes in California
2024
Making Energy Modeling Faster: A machine learning based approach to emulate physics based simulation for energy consumption prediction
2024
Making Energy Modeling Faster: A machine learning based approach to emulate physics based simulation for energy consumption prediction
2024
Making Energy Modeling Faster: A machine learning based approach to emulate physics based simulation for energy consumption prediction
2024
Improving Customer Energy Literacy: An experience sampling approach to identifying where homeowners get confused about energy and getting them unstuck
2024
Improving Customer Energy Literacy: An experience sampling approach to identifying where homeowners get confused about energy and getting them unstuck
2024
Improving Customer Energy Literacy: An experience sampling approach to identifying where homeowners get confused about energy and getting them unstuck
2024
Node Collective: Crowdsourcing real-time rebate information
2024
Node Collective: Crowdsourcing real-time rebate information
2024