| Organization | Project Pathway | Awarded Amount | Project Description | Standard Form Agreement | Quarterly Reports |
| Aion Grid | Innovator | $2,450,000 | showcase a BTM smart microgrid at Mansfield Elementary School, with planned expansion to surrounding grid-edge homes. It integrates 395 kWdc of existing rooftop solar and ~522 kWh of battery energy storage, all managed by Alon Grid’s AI-powered DERMS. The microgrid is designed to enhance local energy resilience, optimize load management, and reduce carbon emissions. | Eversource SFA | Q1 2026 |
| Edge Zero | Collaborative | $499,800 | Deploys an EdgeConnected™ platform for real-time transformer-level monitoring and analytics of UI’s low-voltage distribution system, providing earlier visibility into emerging power quality and loading conditions to support improved grid resiliency, more informed operational and planning decisions, and lower system costs for UI and its ratepayers. | UI SFA | Q1 2026 |
| Gridsight | Collaborative | $1,136,800 | Applies an AI platform to UI’s existing AMI and GIS data to generate actionable grid intelligence and identify cost-effective non-wires solutions as alternatives to traditional capital upgrades. | UI SFA | Q1 2026 |
| Kelvin | Innovator | $771,400 | Demonstrates a hybrid electrification solution for Connecticut multifamily buildings that pairs room-by-room window-mounted heat pumps and smart thermostats with the building’s existing centralized boiler and autonomously reduces electric heating load during peak demand events to support grid performance. | UI SFA Eversource SFA | Q1 2026 |
| Stepwise | Innovator | $305,000 | Deploys 100 smart load management devices across Connecticut homes, integrated with the managed charging programs offered by United Illuminating and Eversource, to enable Level 2 EV charging without costly service upgrades and to test whether circuit-level sensors can deliver energy data 5–10% more accurately than telematics while reducing EDC infrastructure costs. | UI SFA Eversource SFA | Q1 2026 |
| Switched Source | Collaborative | $2,274,000 | Deploys four Phase-EQ pad-mounted power flow controllers (three at 13.8 kV, one at 23 kV) on Eversource distribution circuits in Connecticut to dynamically balance real and reactive power across feeder phases, with independent validation and transparent reporting to PURA. | Eversource SFA | Q1 2026 |
