Texture opens its US grid map to public edits and commercial use

CEO Sanjiv Sanghavi brings a consumer-product founder's approach to a data problem utilities and energy teams keep rebuilding in private.

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Why it matters

Texture is making grid reference data commercially reusable while funding the registry itself. Its value will depend on whether contributors keep the records accurate enough for utilities, developers and researchers to rely on them.

Hands interact with a detailed, glowing digital map of the US energy grid on a modern collaborative table in a bright office.

Texture launched CommonGrid on September 25th, a public, editable registry that connects US utilities, grid operators, power plants, transmission lines, charging stations, rates and other energy data in one model.…

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