Hive Power: Flexibility orchestration for batteries, EVs and energy communities

Hive Power develops FLEXO, a cloud platform for battery and EV optimisation, virtual power plants and energy-community management.

Best for: Energy businesses and asset managers building branded flexibility services.
Less suited to: Assuming every vehicle supports bidirectional charging or every market permits aggregation.
Deployment: FLEXO cloud platform, APIs and optional branded web or mobile applications.
Data in: Asset data, weather, market prices, power profiles and user preferences.
Pricing: Contact Hive Power for an application-specific proposal.

Overview

Hive Power develops FLEXO, a platform for coordinating flexible electricity demand and storage. Its product architecture combines forecasts, scheduling and market information with applications for batteries, charging and energy communities. The same flexible asset can serve different purposes: an EV charger may follow local solar production, while a battery may support site optimisation or a wider aggregated service. Hive Power's company background connects that offering with research in decentralised energy management. Its role is the software intelligence and service layer linking assets, users and energy-market opportunities.

Offering

FLEXO supplies forecasts, schedules, notifications and economic information through an administrative platform and APIs. Its smart-charging application addresses unidirectional charging as well as bidirectional use cases where the vehicle, charger and market support them. The energy-community application supports shared energy arrangements with branded customer interfaces and allocation of community benefits. These applications have different user needs: fleet charging must respect mobility requirements, while community management must explain energy use and financial outcomes to participants. FLEXO brings those needs into one software family rather than requiring each operator to develop its own optimisation engine.

Products and platforms

FLEXO Energy Communities
Community energy software

Community optimisation and branded participant applications.³

Technology

Hive Power's FLEXO interfaces expose energy-use and economic data, notifications and flexibility signals. Integration can use manufacturer APIs, third-party IoT platforms or supported protocols; the published catalogue explicitly names Modbus and OCPP. White-label applications are optional, so an operator can connect an existing customer experience instead. The smart-charging description places user preferences alongside energy and market inputs, which is essential when charging availability changes over time. Published protocol support describes available integration routes, while the actual device model and the permitted control functions determine what a deployment can do.

Markets

The market overview includes energy retailers, charge-point operators, fleet managers, vehicle manufacturers and stationary-battery businesses. Energy communities add a different customer group: operators combining shared generation, storage and participant billing under a particular local framework. The applications can therefore range from optimising a single site's consumption to coordinating a virtual power plant. Economic results depend on local prices, asset availability and market access; the website's illustrative charging calculator explicitly uses a defined regional scenario. That makes it useful as an example, rather than a universal promise of annual revenue for every connected asset.

Company

Hive Power's team is led by co-founders Gianluca Corbellini and Davide Rivola, whose backgrounds combine mathematical engineering, industrial automation and smart-grid research. The company describes its origins in research and pilot projects around decentralised energy management. Its contact details identify Hive Power SA in Manno, Switzerland. Research projects on the company page include positive-energy districts and accessible smart-building and mobility services, alongside commercial FLEXO applications. This combination explains the breadth of the product: community energy and flexible charging have developed together, rather than as unrelated additions to a conventional energy dashboard. Its official company information identifies Manno, Ticino, Switzerland as headquarters. It gives 2017 as the founding year.