Meet the trailblazing companies at the forefront of energy innovation, who will be showcasing their cutting-edge technologies and solutions at Intersolar & Energy Storage North America’s (IESNA) Startup Pavilion.
The Startup Pavilion is a dedicated space in the IESNA exhibit hall where emerging companies showcase groundbreaking technologies and solutions that are driving the future of renewable energy. By bringing together the next generation of industry pioneers, the Startup Pavilion highlights cutting-edge advancements that are reshaping the renewable energy landscape.
Explore the profiles below to meet the innovators leading the charge.
Booth #3618
Sunstack’s founding team, formerly of a leading racking company, developed groundbreaking technology that transformed residential rooftop solar installations. Recognizing the opportunity to better serve customers, they launched Sunstack to create innovative racking and mounting solutions for homeowners, asset owners, and builders across North America. Their mission: to continually push the envelope of innovation, inspiring the industry to follow.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: Sunstack’s first product line, Integrity, featuring the next generation of top-down, butyl-based attachments.
- Why it matters: Built on 30 years of experience and lessons learned, the Integrity line was designed to keep roofs and homeowners happy, with better materials and improved solutions.
What Sets Them Apart?
“When homeowners are first approached about going solar, their primary concern is often whether the roof will leak,” said Joe Perez. “What my team and I have done is develop a solution that reduces roof leaks by over 90%. We created and piloted this technology, which has since been emulated by other racking manufacturers.”
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Booth #3624
A Techstars-backed company, ContractPower is an AI-driven document intelligence platform designed to parse and manage information within contracts and regulations. Rather than generating contracts, the platform helps users navigate, organize, and extract key insights from dense, long-form documents. Co-founded by a former Google AI engineer, the company leverages deep expertise in artificial intelligence to develop a highly specialized solution.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: ClauseSense, a data labeling tool designed to identify and extract critical compliance items within contracts.
- Why it matters: Companies often struggle to track compliance obligations accurately. ClauseSense automates this with AI, reducing risk, improving efficiency, and ensuring adherence to contractual commitments.
What Sets Them Apart?
Who Are Their Customers?
Their primary customers are independent power producers, but the solution is also valuable for consultants, attorneys, EPCs, utilities, and others in the energy value chain who work with complex regulatory and contractual information.
Booth #3608
Commercial Solar Panel Recycling provides sustainable solutions for decommissioned solar panels, turning waste into valuable raw materials. By extracting aluminum, silicon, and precious metals while repurposing glass for construction, the company reduces landfill waste and reliance on foreign resources. Through advanced recycling methods and strategic partnerships, it helps businesses responsibly manage solar panel disposal while supporting a circular economy.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: A streamlined solution that integrates solar panel disposal into existing e-waste management channels. By partnering with e-waste providers, businesses can easily add solar panels to their recycling process, receive certification, and ensure responsible disposal.
- Why it matters: This approach simplifies solar panel recycling for companies, eliminating logistical challenges while supporting ESG goals. By making solar waste management as easy as recycling other electronics, businesses can enhance their sustainability efforts and reduce environmental impact.
What Inspired the Company's Launch?
“It came from recognizing the gap in awareness and understanding around solar panel recycling. We wanted to create a platform where businesses could easily understand the difference between early loss and end-of-life, while offering flexible options like revenue sharing or straight recycling,” said Sarah Damaskos. “Our goal is to build partnerships that work for everyone, ensuring a sustainable and responsible outcome for solar panel disposal.”
Why Exhibit at IESNA?
“We saw a critical opportunity to raise awareness about solar panel end-of-life solutions. With recycling still an emerging conversation in the industry, we’re excited to showcase our innovative approach at the Startup Pavilion and help drive engagement around responsible disposal and sustainable solar panel management.”
Booth #3602
Auto PV provides design and engineering services for the solar industry, but their offerings go beyond that. The company focuses on providing a full suite of services, including permitting, online permitting, interconnection applications, and site surveys. It is a one-stop solution for solar companies, handling all the necessary paperwork and logistics for commercial projects.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: Their service offerings, as well as AutoCAD tools developed to help companies streamline their design processes.
- Why it matters: These tools are designed to assist in-house teams and design companies, allowing them to produce designs more quickly and efficiently. The goal is to help optimize the design process, making it faster and more effective for all types of solar companies.
What Inspired the Company's Launch?
“I started Auto PV to help companies transitioning from residential to commercial solar, using my background in commercial design and engineering,” said Noe Morales. “Many struggle with permitting and site surveys, so I wanted to apply my field experience to guide them through that phase and ensure they have the necessary knowledge for successful commercial projects.”
What Sets Them Apart?
Auto PV’s mission is to make the design process as easy as possible for clients. The company emphasizes the importance of readability in design, believing that a well-detailed, thoughtful plan improves efficiency and streamlines the entire process. By adding depth and expertise to designs, Auto PV helps save time and money, enabling quicker project turnarounds. This, in turn, leads to increased productivity—more efficient plans result in faster installations and potentially higher output within a given timeframe.
Booth #6400
Moment Energy’s mission is to provide worldwide access to clean, reliable, and affordable power by repurposing all end-of-life EV batteries into energy storage solutions. Extending the life of EV batteries contributes to a circular economy and supports the integration of renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: Their Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), which are designed to meet various energy needs for commercial, industrial, and utility customers.
- Why it matters: Their BESS support applications such as peak shaving to reduce demand charges, backup power to ensure reliability during outages, load shifting to optimize energy usage, and even EV charging to enhance infrastructure resilience.
Why Exhibit at IESNA?
“Trade shows provide startups with unparalleled exposure to industry decision-makers and investors. They create opportunities to demonstrate our technology, build credibility, and foster strategic relationships,” said Gurmesh Sidhu. “For Moment Energy, it’s an investment in visibility and market education, critical for advancing the adoption of second-life EV batteries in energy storage.”
What Sets Them Apart?
Moment Energy is focused on making safety its top priority; it is the only company in North America with UL 1974 certification for repurposed EV batteries. Additionally, the trust the company has built with automakers is a key differentiator. Moment Energy works with automakers directly to repurpose EV batteries, creating partnerships that not only enable a second life for EV batteries, but providing businesses with real energy solutions, as well.
Booth #3612
SolarGrade’s platform is a comprehensive software solution available as both a mobile and desktop app. It helps digitize on-site work at renewable energy projects, from pre-construction through operations. The company works with installers, EPCs, O&M providers, and asset owners. It also supports off-takers—companies that have a vested interest in the safety and reliability of the assets on their properties, even if they don’t own them directly.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: The SolarGrade app
- Why it matters: While the industry has an abundance of data on energy yields, there’s a lack of insight into safety and reliability data, which are crucial for managing long-term O&M costs. SolarGrade’s platform fills that gap.
Why Exhibit at IESNA?
“I don’t think there’s any way to replace in-person connection with virtual tools. A handshake is worth a million emails, truly,” said Tori Clifford. “Especially as a startup, real live feedback on your product is instrumental to your success and you can’t get it through a video screen.”
What Sets Them Apart?
SolarGrade’s software helps those in the industry understand that you will have a more profitable portfolio if you look at the full picture.“We’ve come out with two editions of what we call our ‘PV Health Report.’ It takes all the data that is collected using our mobile app and turns it into analytics about project health. It analyzes the types of issues that are most common in which phases of a project’s life cycle, looking at the most common issues that are observed in the field. It has helped people understand how meaningful digitizing your fieldwork can be.”
Booth #3616
New Sun Road is a public benefit corporation with a mission to accelerate renewable energy deployment and access for remote and underserved communities. Its platform, Stellar, manages more than 1,500 microgrids in 22 countries, focusing on smaller size systems ranging from single to hundreds of kilowatts.
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Key Offering
- What they are showcasing: The Stellar edge controller and its microgrid OS SaaS platform.
- Why it matters: Stellar enables customers to manage portfolios of renewables-based distributed power systems in real time. Through IoT technology and a cloud-based software architecture, Stellar enables remote monitoring, controlling, and optimized performance.
What Problem Their Technology Solves
The Stellar platform allows customers to control all their power systems from a single interface. As a technology-agnostic solution, it integrates with all major OEMs, streamlining operations and maintenance for microgrid and DER operators. By enabling remote access, the platform reduces the need for site visits while ensuring high uptime and reliability.
What Sets Them Apart?
New Sun Road works with energy-as-a-service providers, specializing in local electrification rather than large utility-scale renewable deployments. Their technology ensures more efficient and scalable management of distributed energy assets.