This Research Note examines CPower Energy Management, a US provider of building-to-grid technology for commercial buildings that offers peak demand management and behind-the-meter distributed energy resource (DER) services to building owners and operators. We review their acquisition by NRG Energy and partnerships with infrastructure providers, before assessing the competitive market for demand response and grid integration. This article updates our previous coverage of CPower in January 2025. CPower Profile Founded in 2014, CPower Energy Management is a US Distributed Energy Resources (DER) monetization and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) provider. The company is based in Baltimore, Maryland. Customers include many household brand names across big box retail, data centers, commercial real estate, education, manufacturing, production and industrial processing, government and education industries. For over a decade, the firm has delivered $1.5 billion from demand response and energy flexibility programs to over 2,000 customers. CPower operates in all of the USA’s deregulated energy markets and in April 2026 […]
