Inside a sunlit, cramped office near San Francisco’s financial district, entrepreneur and former political operative Susan Kennedy has been leading a team that is at the forefront of the emerging market for energy storage. The company, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, was in stealth mode until it became one of a handful of companies that recently won contracts — and a whopping 50 MW order — to build and manage large installations of batteries in buildings for utility Southern California Edison.
But unlike other companies on that list, Advanced Microgrid — founded in 2012 and funded with private equity from undisclosed sources — isn’t a big energy company, nor has it otherwise built a history of delivering on projects. And, on a side note, in the male-dominated energy industry Kennedy’s executive team boasts more women than men.
An advisor to Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Nancy Pfund, described Kennedy as “a talented…
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