What's actually behind that transformer? A look at grid traceability
A transformer is running hot. Before an operator can act, she needs to know what sits behind it. Why tracing the grid beats modeling it.
By Nicholas Brown
Category: grid-operations
Discover EVs on your grid with physics, machine learning, and meter data
A level 2 EV charger can add 7-11Kw to the average home load. Texture's EV detection model works with utilities to use interval meter data to identify and map EVs.
By Seph Coster
Operate utility-scale batteries alongside your DER fleet with Texture
Texture now supports utility-scale battery monitoring and dispatch, bringing front-of-the-meter assets into the same platform utilities use to manage distributed energy resources.
By Richie Casto
What a line clearance is, and who holds the tag?
When lineworkers go out to perform maintenance or restore an outage, one of the key questions that arises is who is responsible for making sure the line stays dead until they climb down?
By Cyril Brunner
What a load baseline is, and how it is calculated
After a demand response event, the first question is: How much load dropped? Thermostats, water heaters, and behavioral beat the peak programs require meter data to infer what happened.
By Cyril Brunner
AI doesn't need to be smarter. It needs to know you hate mushrooms.
Most utility data lives in silos: GIS, CIS, MDMS, all disconnected. Until that's fixed, AI on the grid is just guessing with better vocabulary
By Victor Quinn
How to use your data to identify members with new batteries or EVs
How do you figure out who's installed a battery or bought an EV? Some members may not inform their co-op about new residential installations.
By Jessica Edwards
Explore time travel, program operations v2, cleaner data | What's New in Texture
This week's updates are all about trustworthy data and a smoother platform experience, with a hint of time travel.
By Jessica Edwards
Improved DR reporting, grid hierarchy, utility-scale batteries | What's New in Texture
This week we released updates across Explore, program event reporting, utility-scale grid asset support, and data ingestion.
By Jessica Edwards
How the grid protects itself: reclosers, fuses, and why your lights blink
The lights blink, come back, blink again, come back, blink a third time, and then the power goes out. That sequence is not the grid failing. It is the grid protecting itself.
By Cyril Brunner
Grid visibility is the foundation, not the ceiling
I started my career at Vermont Electric Cooperative as a SCADA engineer. We had just been awarded federal funding and were adding thousands of real-time data points to the system.
By Cyril Brunner
Texture raises $12.5M series A for the OS for energy
Texture is building the operating system for energy. We work with dozens of electric utilities, hardware OEMs, and grid services companies.
By Sanjiv Sanghavi
From Knowing to Doing: Turning Grid Data into Real-Time Action
For energy companies, a modern operating platform doesn't just tell you what's happening. It lets you do something about it, in real time. We're building that system at Texture.
By Sanjiv Sanghavi
The Grid’s Tech Future Is Already Being Written in Vermont
The future isn’t waiting. Coordination, data, and user trust are the real battlegrounds for energy’s next decade.
By Nicholas Brown
Texture Workflows: Orchestrating Energy Operations in Real Time
Soon, the grid won’t run on handoffs. From onboarding to dispatch to reconciliation, operations will be automated—real-time and at scale.
By Nicholas Brown