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Every Electric

Every Electric deploys simple, plug-in batteries to homes across New York City, creating the city's largest residential powerbank virtual power plant. In partnership with Con Edison, the company aggregates everyday loads into grid flexibility—shaving peaks, reducing outage risk, and unlocking energy storage for renters and multi-family buildings at scale.

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Richard May

Richard May is co-founder of Every Electric. He and co-founder Andrew Wang began their journey at Tesla, validating the Model 3 cell chemistry. May holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Caltech and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he also completed a postdoctoral appointment and led initiatives across battery chemistry, recycling, and energy supply chains. Together with Wang, he co-developed a business model for plug-in battery virtual power plants providing grid services.

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Andrew Wang

Andrew Wang is co-founder and CEO of Every Electric, a New York-based startup delivering grid flexibility and affordability at scale through simple, distributed energy storage. In partnership with Con Edison, Every Electric operates the largest A/C-powerbank virtual power plant in New York City. Wang previously co-founded Intercalation Station, a battery community platform for news, consulting, and investment. He was a postdoctoral scientist at Columbia University and holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and a B.S. from UC Berkeley.

Technology

Critical Need

The grid faces a "last mile" bottleneck where rapid load growth meets renewable volatility. This imbalance drives reliance on carbon-intensive peaker plants, increasing electricity costs and blackout risks. Because traditional storage is slow and expensive to deploy, a new paradigm is required. Resilience depends on flexible, distributed storage that can be rapidly aggregated to support the grid at scale.

Technology Vision

Every Electric democratizes energy flexibility through New York City’s largest residential virtual power plant. The company’s proprietary software detects and forecasts loads, peaking, and power quality instabilities to inform adaptive battery control algorithms. This plug-and-play hardware deploys simply, allowing any user to instantly install energy storage that supports the grid.

Potential for Impact

Every Electric is redefining the consumer-utility relationship by deploying simple plug-in batteries that provide immediate household resilience. This model offers utilities a flexible, dispatchable load to shave peaks and prevent outages, while unlocking grid participation for renters and residents of multi-family buildings. Rapid scaling of this model will accelerate grid decarbonization, reduce reliance on fossil-fuel peaker plants, and enable higher penetration of renewable energy.

 

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