LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 8, 2026--
Bidgely solidified its position as the premier provider of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the utility industry in 2025, driven by the evolution of its journey from foundational ML to generative AI (GenAI) to future-forward agentic AI. By expanding its intellectual property and launching a first-of-its-kind vertical AI platform that integrates directly into existing utility data environments, Bidgely has transformed how more than 35 energy providers across the U.S., India, Middle East and Europe manage the energy transition.
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“The utility sector is moving past the experimentation phase of AI,” said Abhay Gupta, CEO of Bidgely. “In 2025, we focused on delivering technology that allows utilities to build, buy or partner on a single AI platform. Whether it’s optimizing the grid or powering customer-facing GenAI agents, our goal is to help utilities achieve the outcomes they value most: resilience, affordability and decarbonization.”
Defining the Next-Gen Grid with Advanced AI
Bidgely’s technological evolution has journeyed from data observation to autonomous grid management. While foundational ML first decoded raw energy data into consumer insights, predictive AI advanced the company’s platform by forecasting insights like grid stress and infrastructure faults. The journey then moved into generative AI, utilizing large language models to transform complex data into conversational "Energy Assistant" tools. Looking beyond 2025, this path culminates in agentic AI, where autonomous agents transition from delivering insights to executing real-time actions without manual intervention.
Following the strategic acquisition of Grid4C, Bidgely now holds over 16 utility-focused AI data science patents. This "AI moat" includes advanced appliance fault detection, diagnostics and high-resolution load forecasting to ensure every layer of Bidgely AI is protected by world-class innovation.
UtilityAI Pro: The Industry’s "Any Cloud, Any Hyperscaler" AI Solution
Bidgely also redefined the AI landscape in 2025 by launching UtilityAI Pro —the industry’s first vertical AI platform that seamlessly integrates with a utility’s preferred data environment (i.e. AWS, Snowflake, Databricks). UtilityAI Pro enhances a utility’s existing investments in AI-powered agents and copilots and serves as a unified foundation where utilities can build their own custom models, buy off-the-shelf Bidgely solutions or integrate third-party partner applications all within the same platform.
One major Southwest U.S. investor-owned utility (IOU) is partnering with Bidgely for “UtilityAI Pro” to maximize its return on recent investments in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and cloud technology. By deploying Bidgely’s patented machine learning models directly within the utility’s secure cloud environment, the solution ensures data privacy while providing deep intelligence on appliance usage, electric vehicle charging, and distributed energy resources. This foundational data layer enabled the utility to develop custom AI agents and integrate insights into grid planning and customer engagement tools, targeting a five to ten times ROI through optimized demand-side management, deferred infrastructure upgrades and enhanced revenue protection.
Celebrating AI Excellence
In 2025, Bidgely’s AI-first philosophy earned numerous accolades, including 2025 Top Product of the Year from Environment+Energy Leader for its use of GenAI to simulate impact of electric vehicles on the grid with 98 percent accuracy. The company also retained its long-standing position atop Guidehouse Research’s Home Energy Management (HEMS) Leaderboard, recognized specifically for its strategy in making AI "interactive and automated."
Additionally, Bidgely’s ML and AI-based solutions collectively helped save 1.5 TWh of energy from gas, electric, dual fuel and water customers around the world.
To learn more about how utilities can deploy Bidgely’s AI to strategically support their technology investments, listen to the “Scaling AI in the Energy Industry” Electric Perspectives podcast episode featuring Arizona Public Service’s (APS) Michelle Ferrara and Bidgely’s Karthik Moorthy.
About Bidgely
Bidgely is an AI-powered SaaS Company accelerating a clean energy future by enabling energy companies and consumers to make data-driven energy-related decisions. Powered by our unique patented technology, Bidgely's UtilityAI™ Platform transforms multiple dimensions of customer data - such as energy consumption, demographics, and interactions - into deeply accurate and actionable consumer energy insights. We leverage these insights to empower each customer with personalized recommendations, tailored to their individual personality and lifestyle, usage attributes, behavioral patterns, purchase propensity, and beyond. From a distributed energy resources (DER) and grid edge perspective, Bidgely is advancing smart meter innovation with data-driven solutions for solar PVs, electric vehicle (EV) detection, EV behavioral load shifting and managed charging, energy theft, short-term load forecasting, grid analytics, and time of use (TOU) rate designs. Bidgely’s UtilityAI™ energy analytics provides deep visibility into generation and consumption for better peak load shaping and grid planning, and delivers targeted recommendations for new value-added products and services. With roots in Silicon Valley, Bidgely has over 16 energy patents, $75M+ in funding, retains 30+ data scientists, and brings a passion for AI to utilities serving residential and commercial customers around the world. For more information, please visit www.bidgely.com or the Bidgely blog at bidgely.com/blog.
Bidgely expands its intellectual property and launches first-of-its-kind vertical AI platform in its journey foundational ML to GenAI to agentic AI.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree.
The analysis from researchers at The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that while about half of independents without a college education had a positive view of Trump around the 2024 election, his approval with that group fell to about one-quarter this spring. That shift has erased the large education gap that existed among independents in the months before Trump took office for his second term, with independents now holding similarly negative views of the president regardless of their level of education.
The analysis was conducted by aggregating nearly two dozen AP-NORC polls conducted between July 2024 and April 2026, allowing for a deeper look at how support for Trump changed during several distinct periods, including the last six months of 2024, the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, the summer of 2025 when the Big Beautiful Bill passed, last fall's government shutdown and the beginning of the Iran war.
The compiled polling shows a steady decline among independents throughout Trump’s second term. His standing has also dropped among several small but important groups that moved toward him in the 2024 presidential election, including Black and Hispanic independents.
More Americans than ever consider themselves independents, and they are among the groups that shifted toward Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Any erosion in that support could signal trouble for Trump and Republicans headed into the midterm elections, which are often seen as reflection of how voters feel about their governing party.
Tafari Torres, a senior research associate at NORC who co-authored the analysis, noted that while Democrats' and Republicans' views of Trump have held largely steady in his second term, independents' opinions are still moving. “Independents are, broadly, the people who are reacting to the events and dropping in their support,” he said.
Trump's return to the White House was fueled, in part, by independent voters who saw him as the stronger candidate on key issues like the economy. The new analysis, which looks at Trump's favorability and presidential approval ratings, shows that once he took the helm, their views soured quickly.
Independents without a college degree had a much more positive view of Trump than college-educated independents did during and just after the 2024 election, but that shifted in the first few months of his term. Positive views of Trump among independents without a college degree fell from 48% in the months before he returned to office to 31% in polling conducted during Trump’s first 100 days back in office. Those warm views declined even further, to about one-quarter, during the government shutdown and the early months of 2026.
Only about 3 in 10 college-educated independents, by contrast, had a positive view of Trump before he returned to office, making their drop to about one-quarter much less dramatic.
“The decline among no-college independents was steeper and it was greater than the slight decline in college independents," said Sean Collins, a research associate at NORC who co-authored the analysis. "That was surprising, especially given, when you think of Trump's coalitions, those without college degrees is usually one of the ones that that stands out.”
Americans without a college degree have long been a key part of Trump's coalition. But Trump also won in 2024 by making gains among groups that tend to support Democrats, including Hispanic adults.
About 4 in 10 independent voters — 42% — voted for Trump in 2024, up from 37% in the 2020 presidential election. Independent voters without a college degree were a little more likely to back Trump over former Vice President Kamala Harris in the last election, according to AP VoteCast, and Hispanic independents were about evenly split between the two.
The picture looks much bleaker for the president now.
Nearly half of Hispanic independents — 46% — saw Trump favorably in the polling conducted around the presidential election. His approval among these adults dropped quickly in his second term, falling as low as 15% during last fall's government shutdown before landing around one-quarter in the spring.
Younger independents also became less supportive of the president, while independents age 60 and older remained mostly stable. Other AP-NORC polling has pointed to Trump losing ground among younger Republicans over inflation concerns and Hispanic Americans growing increasingly discontented.
“The gains Trump appeared to make during the election, I don’t know if they’re sticking around. He’s experienced some significant shifts among those people,” Torres said. “From our research, they don’t appear to be permanent gains.”
Polling suggests that the economy is at the root of many Americans' frustrations with Trump, including independents.
About half of independents who supported Trump in 2024 said inflation was the single most important factor for their vote, AP VoteCast found, and most expressed high levels of concern about the cost of food and gas.
More than a year into Trump's second term, inflation remains high, fueled by gas prices that remain elevated as the Iran war continues. An AP-NORC poll conducted in April found that about 3 in 10 independents were “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to afford groceries in the last few months, and a similar share were worried about being able to afford gas.
The analysis found that Americans' views of the U.S. economy tend to align with their view of the president. Those with negative views of the country's economy tended to have negative views of Trump, and about 8 in 10 independents described the U.S. economy this spring as poor.
The latest AP-NORC polling from May found that only about 3 in 10 independents approve of how Trump is handling the economy, in line with the roughly 3 in 10 who said that at the beginning of his second term. The April poll found only about 1 in 10 independents — 12% — approved of how Trump was handling the cost of living.
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This AP-NORC analysis of 4,836 independents was conducted over 21 AP-NORC surveys, blocked into five time periods before and during President Donald Trump's second term. Independents are classified as panelists who do not select that they identify with or lean toward either the Democratic or Republican Party.
FILE - Voters stand in line outside a polling place at Madison Church, Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
FILE - An American flag flies in the wind as a voter leaves a polling site after casting a ballot on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)
FILE - A man wears an "I voted" sticker on his shirt, printed with the American flag and the U.S. constitution, after voting at Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center in Fort Myers, Fla, on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
