Overview

What is Texture?#

Texture is the operating system for the grid. We provide the core platform that energy companies and utilities run their operations on, ingesting data from any energy source, making it actionable in real time, and enabling control and automation across the entire grid.

Unlike data warehouses where information goes to sit, Texture is an opinionated, purpose-built energy platform. We understand the shape of the data. We know that these are batteries, those are meters, that's a transformer. We know the right units, the right aggregations, and what's actionable. Every data point flows through a real-time event-driven architecture, not batched pipelines.

The result: energy companies and utilities get operational visibility they've never had before. They can see transformer loading approaching dangerous thresholds, monitor DER behavior across their service territory, and take action, whether that's dispatching batteries, shedding load, or rerouting power, all from a single platform.

What Texture Does#

1. Integrate any energy data source#

Texture can ingest data from any source in the energy ecosystem: DER devices (batteries, solar inverters, EV chargers, thermostats), meters, SCADA systems, grid topology, and more.

Every integration is first-party. We work directly with OEMs (Tesla, SolarEdge, Enphase, FranklinWH, Emporia, and others) through official partnerships and utility-grade APIs. This gives us access to capabilities that consumer-facing APIs don't expose, including grid services that enable deeper control and richer telemetry.

If we support a data source today, it's already on the platform. If we don't yet, we'll build the integration. The platform is designed to pull in any energy data and make it work.

2. Normalize, enrich, and make data actionable#

Raw data from different manufacturers arrives in different formats, units, and schemas. Texture transforms all of it into a standardized data model by device type, then runs aggregations that give you a real picture: total battery capacity across your network, generation output by region, load by transformer.

This is possible because the platform is purpose-built for energy. We're not a generic data lake. We understand that a battery's state of charge is measured in percentage, that power output is in kilowatts, and that aggregating these values across devices of the same type produces meaningful operational metrics. We know what makes sense to combine and what doesn't.

Beyond device telemetry, we automatically enrich every data point with contextual information. When a device is onboarded with an address, we geocode it. From that, we know the timezone, the local weather, marginal carbon emissions data (via our WattTime partnership), and grid topology mapping. All of this context flows from having the right foundational data model.

3. Real-time visibility across the grid#

When you combine device data, meter data, SCADA feeds, and grid topology on a single platform with geocoded location data, something powerful happens: the grid lights up.

We know where the poles, transformers, and substations are. We know which meters are in which homes and which DER devices are behind those meters. We can show exactly what's happening at the transformer level, including how close it is to being overloaded.

This visibility is genuinely new. Energy companies and utilities have never had a single platform that pulls all of this together in real time. We can help prevent transformers from failing by catching overload conditions early and either alerting operators or, if batteries are connected, actively managing load at the transformer level.

4. Control and orchestration#

Texture isn't just a read layer. You can take action. Send commands to individual devices or orchestrate them in batches across your entire network.

Batch dispatch is timezone-aware: if you schedule a dispatch for 4 PM Eastern across devices nationwide, the platform knows that a device in California should fire at 1 PM Pacific. This works because every device has location data from onboarding.

Beyond DER devices, the platform's control architecture extends to any controllable grid asset: reclosers, generators, grid-scale batteries. If we have the integration, you can operate it from Texture.

5. Program operations#

Texture includes purpose-built tools for managing energy programs: enrollment, execution, measurement, and reporting. Whether it's demand response, virtual power plants, time-of-use optimization, or EV managed charging, the platform handles the full lifecycle from customer enrollment through dispatch and settlement.

6. Enterprise security#

Granular role-based access control, workspace isolation, audit logging, and compliance tooling, built for energy companies and utilities that need to meet regulatory requirements and manage cross-organizational collaboration.

How Texture is Different#

Texture is not a data warehouse. Databricks and Snowflake ingest raw data with no opinion about what it means. You dump data in and figure out the analysis yourself. With Texture, the platform understands the data, enriches it with context, and lets you act on it, all in real time.

Texture is not a device integration API. Companies like Enode and Derapi offer unified APIs for connecting to DER devices. That's where Texture starts, not where it ends. Those platforms give you a list of devices with no concept of where they are, whose they are, or how they relate to the grid. Texture models the full picture (sites, devices, meters, grid topology, weather, emissions) and lets you orchestrate across all of it.

Texture is the platform layer that energy companies and utilities have been missing: purpose-built for energy, real-time, opinionated about the data, and capable of both visibility and action.