Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Innowatts partners with energy retailers and grid operators worldwide, providing an AI-driven platform that is connected to over 43 million smart meters globally, analysing over five billion data points every hour. The company has operated in Europe since 2019 and sees enormous potential to empower electricity suppliers and grid operators, enabling them to gain insights that will support them in the transition to a sustainable energy system.
As part of the expansion, Innowatts is establishing its European headquarters in Cork, Ireland with support from IDA Ireland. The team will focus on providing AI-driven data and analysis to deliver quality insights and services for the European and global electricity market.
The new roles created include data architects, data scientists, full stack and dev-op engineers alongside energy specialist roles including wholesale market traders, forecasters and risk managers.
“I’m very pleased to see that Innowatts is establishing a new office in Cork, which will create over 40 new jobs over the next year or so” said Leo Varadkar TD, Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade & Employment. “The work of companies like Innowatts is important to help ensure Ireland’s transition to a sustainable future. I wish the team every success with their new office.”
David Boundy, Chief Product and Technology Officer and General Manager Europe, added that Europe and the UK’s journey to net zero is accelerating at rapid pace and that now more than ever electricity suppliers and grid operators find themselves in need of data insights to make informed decisions that best serve their customers, today and tomorrow.
“The goal for our expansion in Europe is to help electricity suppliers, grid operators and their customers make the most out of the transition to a smarter, greener energy system” Mr Boundy said. “By summer 2021, the UK alone is expected to have over 25 million smart meters producing billions of bits of data an hour. However, to date, much of this data has remained untapped. We’re here to change that.”
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