Category: oems-vpps

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

Integrate Once, Access Everything

OEM software teams are finite. Every hour spent on upstream integrations is an hour not spent on customer-facing features. There's a better way.

By Victor Quinn

The Integration Tax Killing DER Growth

OEMs are in a race to get devices into utility programs. But the path to program access is broken—fragmentation, fees, and gatekeeping are slowing down the energy transition.

By Victor Quinn

Texture Device Cloud: Built for OEMs, Ready for the Grid

Energy hardware wins customers. Grid-ready backends win scale. Texture Device Cloud gives OEMs the infrastructure to make every device credible to utilities, partners, and markets.

By Nicholas Brown

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.

By Jes Hudgins