The week, our team attended #ClimateWeekNYC 2026 ⚡Threading a few of our biggest takeaways from the event.
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Geothermal and SMRs of up to 150 MW are starting to scale, and we’re working with next-gen power providers on the interconnection to bring them online fast. Meanwhile, BESS and solar+storage keep firming the grid, and the industry needs better ways to measure their value beyond cost savings, including speed to power and risk mitigation.
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#ClimateWeekNYC brings a lot of great people together to talk about the future of energy. We're glad to be part of it.
We'll be in the city, hoping to connect with as many of you as we can in person.
In New York and want to talk shop? DM us.
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We keep trying to fix the grid by building more of it. @rocket_bala thinks we're missing the easier win: getting more out of the grid we already have.
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A lot of companies are talking about the power problem. We're the ones fixing it, and we could use more hands.
Hiring engineers across hardware, manufacturing, quality, test, firmware, and electrical.
Equity, flexible health coverage, a 401(k), PTO we actually want you to take.
Open roles: criticalloop.com/careers
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Our Head of Hardware, Chip Leigh, is speaking at the Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum in Houston on 9/17. It's a topic he lives day to day: testing hardware on a bench until it's proven, so it performs reliably the moment it reaches a real site.
Details: etvf.rice.edu #ETVF26
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Two industrial facilities in California needed 20 megawatts, but the utility could only commit to 7.
Because the customer runs on shifts, battery storage covers the difference, dispatched by Cygnus, our grid-interactive controller.
The same approach runs the San Diego Airport project: 4MW of solar and 4MWh of batteries coordinated across a live campus, saving the airport millions over the contract.
Our CEO @rocket_bala talked through both projects this week on the Clean Power Hour pod with @tgmontague.
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Our CEO @rocket_bala joined NYSE Wired's Powering Tomorrow with @GemmaAllenSays to explain how we double power availability for large load users: batteries at the point of consumption, pulling in available grid power and releasing it when demand peaks.
Thanks to @theCUBE, @furrier, and @bjbaumann2014 .
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People ask me why Tesla or Eaton hasn't already built what we're doing. I addressed that this week on NYSE Wired's Powering Tomorrow with @GemmaAllenSays: at @critical_loop, we orchestrate across manufacturers and take on the operations and maintenance layer most companies would rather avoid.
Thanks @theCUBE, @Furrier, and @bjbaumann2014.
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The average energy project now takes 61 months to go from interconnection request to commercial operation, roughly double what it took in 2015. I spoke with @forbes about what that means for businesses trying to grow.
This problem is no longer confined to data centers. Any capital-intensive business that needs rapid access to power, manufacturing, EV fleets, airports, commercial real estate, feels it just as acutely.
The fix is combining what the grid already provides with on-site storage and software that shifts between the two in real time, drawing maximum grid power when it’s available and relying on reserves when it’s constrained. Energy has to be treated as a dynamic operational variable.
Full piece: forbes.com/sites/ray-fernand…
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@Am_Transmission, the American Transmission Leadership and Security project, is rethinking how we build energy infrastructure for the next century of American industrial growth.
Today they're launching the first American ATLAS, an anthology of 20+ founders. I wrote one of the essays, on why more wires alone won't solve the power crunch.
[2/] If you're in SF, I'll be at tonight's book launch at Presidio Bitcoin. Would love to see you there.
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Congrats to NAIA members @Divergent3D (@lukasczinger , @Picogrid (@zanemountcastle), @GoToImpulse (@lrocket & @_Eric_Romo), & @critical_loop (@rocket_bala) on being named Aerospace and Defense Visionaries by the LA Times!
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Grid upgrades take years. Industrial timelines can’t wait. At @critical_loop, we’re building a tightly integrated hardware and software platform to deliver reliable power in days or weeks. Latitude's coverage: bit.ly/47WOJJN
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@critical_loop has raised a $26M Series A, bringing total funding to $49M.
Across the U.S., industrial growth is being slowed by time to power. We're building the platform to help customers get online in days or weeks.
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Most energy systems are slowed down by fragmented controls and custom integrations.
We built the Critical Loop Controller to simplify that.
One compact device that manages batteries, generators, and distributed energy resources across off-grid and grid-tied systems, replacing multiple components and cutting deployment time.
Designed and delivered in under 3 months. Now moving into production.
Watch here: criticalloop.com/news/blog/b…
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