Gridcog: Modelling flexible energy projects and investment scenarios

Gridcog models solar, storage and EV-charging projects with market data and technical constraints, helping developers compare design and revenue scenarios.

Summary

Best for
Developers and advisers comparing solar, battery, hybrid and EV-charging investments.
Less suited to
Live plant dispatch or assuming a modelled revenue is a guaranteed project return.
Deployment
Subscription SaaS used for project design, scenario comparison and financial analysis.
Data in
Asset characteristics, demand, market data, tariffs and project constraints.
Pricing
Core, Plus and Enterprise plans vary by active sites and market coverage; request pricing.

Overview

Gridcog is a browser-based platform for evaluating flexible energy projects. Its company profile describes software used to design, realise and finance projects, while its platform overview brings technical operation and commercial outcomes into the same modelling process. The intended task is comparing alternatives before and during project development: storage size, generation mix, network limits or market participation can change both costs and achievable revenue. A single model can represent interacting assets, rather than treating a battery, solar array and electricity connection as unrelated financial line items.

Offering

For large-scale asset developers, Gridcog models standalone and co-located generation and storage, with scenarios for different technical and commercial configurations. Its e-mobility offering addresses charging infrastructure and fleet electrification, including the interaction between charging demand, supply arrangements and site constraints. These use cases share a need to compare options over time: the cheapest individual component may not produce the best combined project. The software is a planning and analysis environment for those comparisons, enabling teams to test assumptions consistently rather than duplicating a separate spreadsheet for every proposed configuration.

Products and platforms

  1. Gridcog project modelling

    Energy project simulation software

    Compares technical operation and commercial outcomes for flexible energy assets.1

  2. Large-scale asset development

    Renewable and storage modelling

    Models generation and battery configurations with market and operational constraints.5

  3. E-mobility modelling

    EV infrastructure planning software

    Assesses charging, fleet electrification and wider site energy interactions.4

Technology

Gridcog's asset-development description includes operational constraints and market behaviour such as bid intervals, accepted offers, activation and available capacity. Its platform combines simulation with market information so that changing a physical assumption can flow through to a commercial result. For EV projects, charging requirements and connection limits are considered alongside the wider energy system. This is model-based assessment rather than a claim of real-time device control. Enterprise plans describe custom integrations, but the public pricing page does not establish an unrestricted customer API or a field-protocol driver catalogue.

Markets

The pricing page offers Core, Plus and Enterprise subscriptions. Core includes five active sites and one market; Plus includes ten active sites and three markets within one region, while Enterprise is tailored. This structure reflects how users expand from a bounded project set into multi-market portfolios. The e-mobility material is aimed at teams planning charging and electrification investments, while large-scale development addresses generation and storage businesses. Commercial evaluation still depends on the input assumptions, project constraints and selected markets, so a modelled outcome is a scenario result rather than a contracted return.

Company

Gridcog identifies the United Kingdom as its headquarters, with offices including London, Berlin, Madrid, Perth and Melbourne. Co-founders Fabian Le Gay Brereton and Pete Tickler previously founded Greensense, which was acquired by ERM Power, now Shell Energy. VERBUND's July 2026 investment announcement dates Gridcog's founding in Australia to 2020 and describes its subsequent European expansion. That round was led by ABB Electrification Ventures, with other participants including DNV Ventures and Axpo Ventures. These are investment relationships; they do not make Gridcog a subsidiary of each investor.

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References

  1. Gridcog - Intelligent Energy Decisions (opens in a new tab)
  2. VERBUND X Ventures invests in Clean-Tech startup Gridcog (opens in a new tab)
  3. Gridcog - Plans and Pricing. (opens in a new tab)
  4. Gridcog for E-Mobility | Fleet Electrification & Charger Modelling (opens in a new tab)
  5. Gridcog for Asset Developers | Fast Hybrid Project Modelling (opens in a new tab)
  6. Gridcog - Company Profile (opens in a new tab)

This profile does not imply a commercial relationship with Gridcog and may contain inaccuracies.