On this World Environment Day, we celebrate the community, the land, and the team that brought our Goleta Energy Storage project to life by premiering this mini-documentary on the project. Working in partnership with local officials to produce tax revenues from an unused urban parcel - while bringing reliable clean energy to a region - are emblematic of our mission to decarbonize America's electric grid and create a better world through battery energy storage. #WorldEnvironmentDay #CleanEnergy #Decarbonization #GenerationRestoration #BatteryEnergyStorage City of Goleta #Goleta
GridStor
Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
Portland, Oregon 5,492 followers
GridStor is accelerating America’s transition to a carbon-free economy by building and operating large-scale batteries.
About us
GridStor is a rapidly growing developer, owner, and operator of battery energy storage systems. We strategically site projects to enable electricity from renewable resources, like wind and solar, to charge batteries where demand is greatest. This helps build a more resilient grid in the face of threats posed by climate change and severe weather.
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https://www.gridstor.com
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- Industry
- Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Portland, Oregon
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- Renewable Energy, Batteries, Energy Storage, Power Markets, Project Development, Project Financing, and M&A
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We're looking for a Senior Energy Trader to join the team! As a senior trader, this position will be responsible for trading, scheduling, and managing the risk of GridStor’s ERCOT trading portfolio. We're looking for someone who can execute trading strategies, analyze market fundamentals, manage risk, optimize GridStor's BESS assets, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while identifying opportunities and reacting to current market conditions. If this role sounds like a match for you, find the full list of responsibilities and desired qualifications in the job posting and apply today! https://lnkd.in/gP8fdaiu #Hiring #OpenPosition #ERCOT #EnergyJobs #EnergyTrader #EnergyCareers #EnergyTransition #BESS
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"We are hammering our suppliers to get us domestic content." GridStor CEO Chris Taylor's perspective on the battery supply chain and market featured in Garrett Hering's reporting in S&P Global from the American Clean Power Association (ACP) Recharge Energy Storage Summit. Follow the link in the comments to read about the risks and rewards Chris and other executives are navigating as the battery energy storage industry flourishes. #DomesticSupplyChain #DomesticProduction #USMade #BatteryEnergyStorage #EnergyTransition
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GridStor’s team comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, each adding depth and perspective to our collective GridStory. The women at our company have unique stories to tell, and we’re excited to introduce you to them. Meet Kelly Brown, Executive Assistant and Office Manager, who celebrates her birthday today! Kelly has always cared about the environment, but a career in clean energy wasn’t on her early radar. A theatre and English major in college, she began her professional life in the nonprofit arts sector, working for theatre companies, in arts management and then higher education. After making a career change into the technology and cloud storage industry, she pivoted once again to battery energy storage when the role with GridStor became available. “One of my favorite things about my line of work is supporting interesting projects that have a big impact. I like that GridStor is a local company intentionally rooted in Portland, with national influence. Climate change worries me, and it’s easy to feel hopeless and powerless as an individual, but as a company we are pursuing cutting edge technology solutions to this crisis and addressing the challenge in a meaningful way. It’s exciting to be working alongside so many smart people who know how to make these efforts succeed.” Kelly credits her arts background for preparing her to thrive in a startup environment. “Coming from theatre, I can trace a lot of my professional skills back to the stage. As a performer, you have to work collaboratively with a team, and no one is precious about their own contributions because we all understand that the sum of what we can produce together is greater than the individual parts.” Her advice to others looking to make a career transition comes down to two core principles. First, be open to new opportunities and don’t let a current lack of knowledge or core experience dissuade you from trying. Second, commit to learning what you don’t know. “Even people who have been in an industry for a long time are still learning and sharing with one another. Regardless of your background, know that you always have something to contribute. Nonlinear paths can make you a strong asset to a team.” #CleanEnergy #WomenInEnergy #BatteryEnergyStorage #StartupLife #CareerChange #ClimateTech #EnergyTransition
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GridStor’s team comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, each adding depth and perspective to our collective GridStory. The women at our company have unique stories to tell, and we’re excited to introduce you to them. Meet Kelly Brown, Executive Assistant and Office Manager, who celebrates her birthday today! Kelly has always cared about the environment, but a career in clean energy wasn’t on her early radar. A theatre and English major in college, she began her professional life in the nonprofit arts sector, working for theatre companies, in arts management and then higher education. After making a career change into the technology and cloud storage industry, she pivoted once again to battery energy storage when the role with GridStor became available. “One of my favorite things about my line of work is supporting interesting projects that have a big impact. I like that GridStor is a local company intentionally rooted in Portland, with national influence. Climate change worries me, and it’s easy to feel hopeless and powerless as an individual, but as a company we are pursuing cutting edge technology solutions to this crisis and addressing the challenge in a meaningful way. It’s exciting to be working alongside so many smart people who know how to make these efforts succeed.” Kelly credits her arts background for preparing her to thrive in a startup environment. “Coming from theatre, I can trace a lot of my professional skills back to the stage. As a performer, you have to work collaboratively with a team, and no one is precious about their own contributions because we all understand that the sum of what we can produce together is greater than the individual parts.” Her advice to others looking to make a career transition comes down to two core principles. First, be open to new opportunities and don’t let a current lack of knowledge or core experience dissuade you from trying. Second, commit to learning what you don’t know. “Even people who have been in an industry for a long time are still learning and sharing with one another. Regardless of your background, know that you always have something to contribute. Nonlinear paths can make you a strong asset to a team.” #CleanEnergy #WomenInEnergy #BatteryEnergyStorage #StartupLife #CareerChange #ClimateTech #EnergyTransition
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Please join us in welcoming our new Development Analyst, Holly Haughy (she/her), to GridStor! A specialist in geospatial programming, project management, and data optimization, Holly will support the development of energy storage projects across our portfolio. Originally from a small town near Yosemite National Park, Holly stays active through boxing, yoga, snowboarding, and spending time outdoors. She is also a dedicated visual artist who enjoys creating and visiting art installations. Holly received her professional training in the Geography, Geographic Information Science and Cartography program at UC Santa Barbara. Welcome, Holly! #NewHire #NewEmployee #WelcomeToTheTeam #Growth #EnergyStorage #Development #Data #ProjectManagement #Geography #Cartography
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We are pleased to announce that Yogesh Mahajan has joined GridStor as Manager, Transmission & Interconnection! Yogesh comes to us from Hunt Energy in Dallas, TX, where he focused on Day-Ahead Market Operation of energy storage assets, generator integration, and development. He previously worked in power modelling with Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables in Houston. At GridStor, Yogesh will remain focused on Texas, working on projects located within ERCOT and gradually expand further in SPP and WECC. He holds a Master of Science in Engineering, Electric Power, and Energy Systems from Arizona State University. Please help us welcome Yogesh to the team! #NewHire #NewEmployee #Congratulations #WelcomeToTheTeam #Growth #EnergyStorage #Interconnection #Renewables
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Last week we gathered with nearly 700 peers at the American Clean Power Association (ACP)'s RECHARGE conference - a number ACP notes represents about one out of every hundred people employed in energy storage. As a company, we're thankful to ACP for bringing together so many advocates and providing opportunities to speak about the future of our growing industry. We also congratulate ACP on the launch of EnergyStorage.org, an educational and safety-focused resource covering the benefits of battery energy storage technology. Go take a look! #ThankYou #ACPRECHARGE24 #EnergyStorage Chris Taylor
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We're hiring! GridStor is growing and we're looking for several new senior team members to join us as we decarbonize the grid with battery energy storage. Our company values applicants with a range of backgrounds and experiences. Apply now at the link in the comments if you think your skills could be a match. #Hiring #EnergyJobs #EnergyCareers #PortlandJobs #DevelopmentJobs #JoinUs #HRJobs
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I was happy to have the chance to discuss the rapid growth of the energy storage sector with Sean McMahon on his renewable energy smartpod last week - check it out at: https://lnkd.in/gx5wppm3
The U.S. has an acute need for more infrastructure. GridStor CEO Chris Taylor explains the importance of faster interconnection, and the demand driving storage, on the heels of his recent talk at the American Clean Power Association's Energy Storage Summit below. For most of my life, knowing the lights would turn on and the A/C would run when needed was a given. But things have changed. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent. Demand for electricity is increasing at record rates, driven by growth from data centers and AI, domestic manufacturing, and electrification of transportation. Yet we continue to defer building badly needed grid infrastructure – both upgrading existing facilities and constructing new transmission lines to get new sources of power to where they are needed. As a result, reliability is becoming a real issue in many places. The great news is that we are ready to bring greater reliability to the power grid through battery energy storage. Companies like ours have done their diligence, chosen locations, and advanced the development of our projects. The challenge is this: while we can build a large storage system in under a year, it takes many years to get it connected to the grid. In Texas (the grid with the shortest interconnection timelines), we can expect an average of three to four years of wait time; in other regions, that number bumps up to eight or nine years before a new generation project can connect to the grid. Shortening the time it takes to connect to the grid is the single most pressing issue to solving our energy challenges. The primary cause of our predicament is that we have consistently failed to build enough new transmission capacity to meet demand. To sum up a very complicated issue in one sentence: we need to move from the current, backward-looking model of rationing scarcity to a forward-looking model of building abundance. Bringing light to this issue is one of the reasons I join panels at conferences like the American Clean Power Association (ACP)'s RECHARGE Energy Storage Summit, do podcast interviews, and schedule time with energy reporters. We have the solutions to our nation's energy needs, if we can build the infrastructure to connect them. You can hear more of my thoughts on this issue and the opportunities I see in our industry at the link in the comments. #Interconnection #EnergyStorage #GridReliability #ElectricGrid #PowerGrid #Energy
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