Category: grid-technology

Breaking Down Texture Concepts – Meter Monitoring

See how Texture connects utility meters to reveal consumption, voltage, and power quality data—then uses grid hierarchy to power proactive monitoring and transformer loading insights.

By Jes Hudgins and Stefan Armijo

What makes AI useful isn't the model

AI models are becoming commodity tools. The value is in the records, relationships, and context your organization builds.

By Victor Quinn

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

What's new in Texture: EV & grid services updates

This release moment is all about making EV and energy hardware more reliable, more observable, and easier to build on, especially for teams running demand response programs.

By Jessica Edwards

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