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
Device dispatch policies often optimize for efficiency at the expense of member experience. Here's how to write policies that protect both — for thermostat, EV, and battery programs.
By Jessica Edwards
How you shape your managed EV charging program determines whether members sign up and stay enrolled. Here's what we've learned working with co-ops across the country.
By Jessica Edwards
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
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
This week's updates are all about trustworthy data and a smoother platform experience, with a hint of time travel.
By Jessica Edwards
There's a question every co-op has to answer before running a demand response or battery program, and it is harder to answer than it looks: How soon will this program benefit our members?
By Cyril Brunner
With some planning and some patience, you can absolutely run a successful demand response program with 10, 20, or 50 residential batteries. We know because we've seen it happen.
By Jessica Edwards
This week we released updates across Explore, program event reporting, utility-scale grid asset support, and data ingestion.
By Jessica Edwards
In the last two weeks, we've shipped nearly 1300 GitHub PRs, giving operators a clearer picture of what's actually happening on their grid and program managers a more dependable platform.
By Jessica Edwards
We spent the last quarter talking to 55+ distribution and G&T cooperatives about grid flexibility programs. These monthly round tables led to the CORD Report.
By Cyril Brunner
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
Over the past quarter, we've been building out the Programs Operations platform to handle more of that complexity for coops, OEMs, and TPOs.
By Jessica Edwards
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%…
By Jes Hudgins
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.
By Victor Quinn
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…
By Sanjiv Sanghavi
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…
By Victor Quinn
Texture’s turnkey DSGS solution automates enrollment, compliance, and payouts for California’s Demand Side Grid Support program, easing participation, streamlining events, and ensuring…
By Jes Hudgins
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…
By Jes Hudgins
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…
By Jes Hudgins
Texture simplifies demand response management with turnkey solutions, automating enrollment, control, M&V, and payments—helping utilities balance grids, reward customers, and streamline…
By Jes Hudgins