How the Heck Does Texture’s Tesla Integration Work?
Learn how Texture integrates with Tesla through both the Fleet API and Grid Services API to enable DER monitoring, control, and orchestration for energy companies and utilities.
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90 Days Isn't Lightning Speed: Why Most Energy Platforms Can't Do Real AI
While energy companies brag about 90-day analytics, the grid operates in milliseconds. Learn why AI-native architecture isn't a buzzword—it's the only way to build platforms that can sense, think, and act in real time.
Energy is starving for coordination, and AI will feed it.
AI is transforming the energy industry by breaking down data silos, integrating systems, and enabling real-time coordination, unlocking new business value and operational efficiency across the sector.
Release Notes | March - April 2025
Texture's March 2025 update delivers workspace sharing, device collections, energy modeling, and in-platform support. Enhanced data visualization, list views, and dashboard navigation boost user experience and performance.
The Hidden Data Risks in Utility Operations
Discover how emailing customer data via CSVs creates major security risks for utilities. Learn why this common practice threatens data privacy and how Texture's incremental approach provides secure data sharing without disrupting operations.
The Energy Industry's Point Solution Problem: Why Utilities Keep Reinventing the Wheel
Utilities waste resources creating disconnected point solutions. Texture provides a platform approach, acting as the central nervous system that enables real-time data flow between systems so utilities can focus on innovation.
What I Learned from 30 Hours with Solar Installers at NABCEP
Discover key insights from NABCEP: Solar installers battle alert fatigue, manage homeowner expectations, and juggle fragmented systems. Learn how unified data solutions can save time and money.
60Hertz x Texture Partnership: Solar Monitoring & Maintenance Made Simple
Discover how the 60Hertz and Texture partnership transforms solar and battery fleet management with real-time monitoring, secure data sharing, and purpose-built O&M. Reduce downtime by 50% and streamline operations.
The Power of Direct OEM Relationships: Why We Invest in Official API Access
Discover how Texture builds direct relationships with energy OEMs like Tesla, Enphase, and SolarEdge to deliver reliable API access, optimized data pipelines, and actionable insights for energy companies.
Breaking Down Texture Concepts – What is a Customer?
Texture solves fragmented energy data by redefining customer profiles to connect people, places, and devices in real-time, enabling personalized energy services and comprehensive insights across multiple sites.
Streamline Program Enrollment with Texture’s API
Simplify energy program enrollment with Texture’s API. Automate eligibility checks, reduce admin costs by 75%, and increase enrollments for VPPs, OEMs, utilities, and DERMS.
Release Notes | February 2025
Discover Texture's February 2025 updates! New APIs, AI-powered insights, improved scheduling, and enhanced filtering make energy data management smarter. Explore the latest features and fixes today!
Why Texture Bets on Experience: Our Contrarian Approach to Startup Hiring
At Texture, we're challenging startup hiring norms by investing in experienced operators. Learn why we believe paying for experience accelerates success and how we're building differently in the energy sector.
Who Really Controls Distributed Energy? The Unspoken Conflict in DERs
Who controls distributed energy—consumers or the grid? Utilities see EVs, batteries, & smart thermostats as grid assets, while users see them as personal tools. Real-time, high-frequency energy data is the key to balancing user experience & grid needs.
Don't Let Sunk Costs Drag You Down: Focus on What You Do Best
Stuck in the past? The sunk cost fallacy holds many energy companies back from embracing modern, scalable solutions. Learn why shifting from in-house legacy systems to specialized platforms is key to thriving in the evolving energy landscape.
Empowering Success: Inside Texture’s Client Operations Process
Texture’s client operations team ensures seamless onboarding, strong engagement, & lasting success. Learn how our collaborative approach, clear milestones, & proactive support drive measurable value, optimize adoption, & foster long-term client growth.
Do the Hard Thing First: How Texture Creates Value Beyond the Transaction
Most energy companies tackle small data problems first, but Texture solves the hardest challenges upfront to create lasting value. Discover how prioritizing foundational data solutions leads to smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and long-term success.
The End of the FTP Era: Why Energy Data Sharing Needs a Modern Solution
FTP has long been the standard for energy data sharing, but it's outdated in an era of real-time grid management and cybersecurity risks. Learn why FTP falls short and explore modern, secure, and scalable alternatives for seamless energy data exchange.
Weaving Software Into the Energy Sector: Unifying Silos With a Data-First Approach
Discover how unified data platforms can break down silos in energy organizations, enabling real-time insights, cross-functional collaboration, and smarter decisions. Learn how Texture transforms energy data into a unifying force.
Texture Overview: Chaos to Clarity
Discover how Texture transforms energy data management with unified data, scalable security, real-time intelligence, and universal access. Reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enable collaboration for a more resilient, data-driven energy future.
The Real Cost of Building It Yourself in Energy
The energy industry's default approach of building everything in-house is holding back innovation. Learn why the build-it-yourself mindset is unsustainable, what it really costs, and how Texture's energy data platform can accelerate the transition.
Real-time or obsolete: The new rules of energy data management
Discover how real-time energy data transforms operations for DER installers, OEMs, utilities, and retailers. Learn how Texture’s platform enables smarter decisions, better customer experiences, and new business models in a rapidly evolving energy market.
Explaining Texture to My Mom
Texture is a B2B platform for connecting batteries, solar, and more. I break down how homeowners can store solar power, sell it to the grid, and even form a virtual power plant—explained in plain English for my mom and aunt.
The Human Side of Energy’s Digital Transformation
Exploring the human challenges of energy’s digital transformation—bridging the gap between technology and talent. Learn lessons from other industries and strategies to empower teams to embrace new tools confidently.
Why Cloud Infrastructure is the Future for Energy Companies
The energy landscape is transforming: bidirectional power flows, behind-the-meter assets, and real-time demands require new approaches to infrastructure. Learn why cloud isn't just an option for energy companies—it's essential for future success.
Breaking Down Texture’s Device Detail Page — Batteries
Texture’s enhanced Device Detail Page for batteries offers deeper data visualizations, real-time insights, and user-friendly controls—empowering energy companies to reduce costs, boost reliability, and meet sustainability goals.
Your Energy Customers are Your Users Now
Energy is going user-centric. Texture’s platform unifies data, streamlines experiences, and fosters real-time engagement. The result? Lower costs, higher trust, and next-level innovation for an evolving energy sector.
Why Texture Doesn't Reverse Engineer APIs - and Why That Matters
Texture powers the energy ecosystem with stable, OEM-backed device integrations—no guesswork, no hacky APIs—just reliable, secure, enterprise-grade solutions.
Collaboration — the Key to Energy Transformation
Collaboration is essential to transform the energy sector. Texture’s platform unifies data, drives partnerships, and boosts innovation so the entire industry can move faster, cut costs, and deliver better user experiences.
The Critical Role of the Real World in Energy Management
Texture’s Sites unify energy data into actionable profiles, enabling insights, predictive maintenance, demand response optimization, and revenue growth by turning raw data into operational intelligence and improving collaboration.
Unlocking Turnkey Distributed Storage Grid Services (DSGS) with Texture
Texture’s turnkey DSGS solution automates enrollment, compliance, and payouts for California’s Demand Side Grid Support program, easing participation, streamlining events, and ensuring customers get rewarded for grid support.
Meeting Rebate Program Requirements with Custom Scheduling Solutions
Texture automates energy rebate compliance, letting you easily schedule devices like batteries and thermostats to reduce costs, meet load-shifting requirements, and support a more stable grid.
Battery Storage Strategy 101: Optimizing for Demand-Side Management
Batteries are key to demand-side management. Learn how TOU vs. Self-Consumption strategies and Texture’s unified API help optimize costs, boost energy reliability, and reduce reliance on the grid.
Streamlining Demand Response with Texture’s Digital Grid Services Solution
Texture simplifies demand response management with turnkey solutions, automating enrollment, control, M&V, and payments—helping utilities balance grids, reward customers, and streamline energy programs.
Release Notes | Q2 2024
Stay updated with Texture’s latest features! Explore new Site and Customer Profiles, Enphase Grid Services API, Arcadia Plugin, improved onboarding, UI enhancements, and more. 🚀