EnPowered

EnPowered has delivered more than $184 million in verified electricity savings to commercial and industrial customers through AI forecasting models maintaining a near 100% accuracy rate across nine North American electricity markets, while simultaneously financing the clean energy hardware those savings make possible, earning EnPowered a 2026 Global Recognition Award for solving the two problems every other cleantech company treats as someone else’s job: the intelligence to know when to act, and the capital to afford acting.

Technical Innovation and Architecture

EnPowered‘s Programs platform delivers a five-stage peak prediction protocol across nine North American ISO/RTO markets. Specifically, customers receive a warning the day before a peak event, an updated morning prediction based on new weather feeds, a final call several hours ahead, a mid-afternoon market behaviour update, and an all-clear signal post-event. This five-stage sequence translates complex electricity market dynamics into a single, actionable decision for each commercial site, without disrupting the customer’s business.​

Furthermore, the near 100% accuracy standard is not an incremental improvement over generic forecasting tools. It is the operational trust threshold that determines whether a commercial customer will rely on an AI system to manage the one decision that sets their largest energy cost line for the following twelve months. Consequently, the Financing Accelerator platform compounds this intelligence advantage by connecting clean energy contractors, their commercial customers, and a curated funder network through the EASE workflow — Estimate, Apply, Sign, Execute — with the AI-powered Apply module automating document verification and submission, reducing the financing process from weeks to days.

Market Strategy and Leadership

EnPowered’s most structurally innovative commercial mechanism is its on-bill payment platform. Specifically, it routes clean energy project repayments through the customer’s existing electricity bill as an operating expense, eliminating the upfront capital requirement and the internal capital approval process that stalls the majority of commercial clean energy projects before they start. Furthermore, David Energy became the first US energy supplier to join the Accelerator Partner Program in April 2023, confirming that the on-bill financing model can be successfully transferred from Ontario’s electricity market to US deregulated energy supplier structures and opening the pathway for pan-American expansion backed by Export Development Canada’s federal trade finance support.

Tomas van Stee bootstrapped EnPowered to $500,000 in revenue before raising a single dollar of external capital, then attracted Inovia Capital, Global Founders Capital, Active Impact Investments, Version One Ventures, and Golden Ventures for a $12.75 million CAD raise. Additionally, van Stee was recognised as a Clean50 Emerging Leader in 2022 for a model that has unlocked 70 MW of controlled flexible energy assets under AI management, and has explicitly positioned EnPowered as the Stripe of CleanTech: the financial infrastructure layer that enables thousands of clean energy professionals to offer financing as a seamless part of the clean energy sales conversation.

Industry Impact and Future Vision

Commercial and industrial electricity customers in North American capacity markets face a structurally punishing pricing model. Specifically, Ontario’s Global Adjustment, PJM’s capacity charges, and ERCOT’s coincident peak pricing can determine a customer’s entire annual energy bill based on fewer than 100 hours of grid peak events per year. EnPowered’s Programs platform is the only AI system in North America that covers nine of these markets simultaneously at near 100% accuracy, meaning the $184 million in savings delivered to date represents only the early surface of a market where every commercial and industrial building on the continent is a potential customer.

Furthermore, van Stee articulated the platform ambition in terms that make the trajectory unmistakable: “This market is ridiculously complicated; you need a few companies to manage that complexity so that it is easier for everyone else to start plugging into it.” Consequently, with AI automation accelerating the Financing Accelerator’s EASE workflow, a growing contractor and funder partner network across North America, and a dual-flywheel architecture that compounds with every market entered and every project financed, EnPowered earns a 2026 Global Recognition Award for building the financial and intelligence infrastructure that turns commercial clean energy from a capital-constrained aspiration into a data-driven, self-financing operating reality.