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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AutoGrid, the market leader in AI-powered flexibility management software for the energy industry, today announced that it was awarded $2.25 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energys Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding will be used to significantly increase the scalability and electric vehicle (EV) management capabilities of AutoGrids award-winning, artificial intelligence-powered Flex Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform. Asset owners and power providers today face a greater number and diversity of distributed energy resources than ever before, and optimizing them requires flexible solutions that can handle increasingly complex networks, said Rahul Kar, General Manager and VP - New Energy for AutoGrid. The Department of Energys award serves as pivotal support of our Flex platform, and will help further our work boosting flexibility and maximizing value streams from storage, renewables, electric vehicles, and other distributed assets. The expanded Flex capabilities include scaling real-time co-optimization up to 100,000 assets, and expanding the platforms features and functionality for EV fleet management. AutoGrid is currently supporting the buildout of the worlds largest VPP by asset volume in Japan with local partner ENERES, and offers its Flex platform for EV fleet owners and power providers to manage networks of charging stations. AutoGrid received this competitive award from ARPA-Es Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program, building on ARPA-Es primary focus of supporting the scaling of transformational and disruptive technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. This is the second time AutoGrid has received ARPA-E support, having previously been awarded $3.5 million by the offices Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program in 2012. With over 5,000 MW of assets under contract, and experience of managing distributed energy resources (DERs) in 12 countries, AutoGrid is the leading provider of flexibility management solutions globally. AutoGrid Flex is ranked as the #1 Virtual Power Plant Platform in the world according to the 2020 global ranking published by industry-leading research firm Guidehouse Insights. About AutoGrid: AutoGrid builds AI-powered software solutions that enable a smarter energy world. The companys suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time, at scale through different value streams. AutoGrids flagship application, AutoGrid Flex, is ranked as the #1 Virtual Power Plant Platform in the world according to the global ranking published in 2020 by industry-leading research and analysis firm Guidehouse (formerly, Navigant Research).

Answer: AutoGrid Awarded $2.25 Million from ARPA-E for Expanding VPP Co-Optimization and Electric Vehicle Management Capabilities DOE funding recognizes Flex as a transformational technology for grid modernization efforts