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Bidgely Named Top 10 Grid Edge Innovator of 2025 by Darcy Partners

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Bidgely Named Top 10 Grid Edge Innovator of 2025 by Darcy Partners
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Bidgely Named Top 10 Grid Edge Innovator of 2025 by Darcy Partners

2026-02-25 20:00 Last Updated At:20:10

LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 25, 2026--

Darcy Partners, a leading provider of technology-focused market intelligence for the energy sector, has recognized Bidgely as a 2025 Top 10 Grid Edge Innovator. Honoring technologies that optimize Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), distributed energy resources (DER) and electrification, the Grid Edge category highlights Bidgely’s success in building sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools that transform AMI data into actionable intelligence through its Analytics Workbench (AWB) and comprehensive grid planning solutions.

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Each year, Darcy Partners evaluates top innovators based on pilot programs, field deployments, customer feedback, product advancements and insights from the Darcy Connect platform to identify those delivering the most impactful solutions for the energy transition.

“Bidgely continues to redefine how AI analytics tackle complexities at the grid edge, delivering insights for both utility-facing and customer-facing applications," said Francisco Alvarez Colombo, Manager, Grid Edge at Darcy Partners. “As utilities face unprecedented load growth from electric vehicles and electrification, Bidgely’s grid-ready insights are a powerful tool in managing the transition toward a more distributed energy future.”

Bidgely's Analytics Workbench has become a critical tool for utilities like NV Energy and Hydro One, allowing them to more accurately identify electric vehicle (EV) owners, analyze peak load users and design targeted demand-side management (DSM) programs. The company’s grid planning solutions are also being utilized by utilities like Avista and major investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to pinpoint assets under stress and prioritize infrastructure upgrades based on real-world DER adoption curves.

“Being named a Grid Edge Innovator acknowledges our dedication to evolving AI solutions that meet the needs of a modern energy landscape,” said Gautam Aggarwal, Chief Revenue Officer at Bidgely. “Our goal is to ensure utilities can manage the rapid growth of electrification and shifting load patterns at scale and with complete confidence.”

This recognition follows a year of significant growth for Bidgely, including the launch of UtilityAI Pro, acquisition of Grid4C, 'Top Product of the Year' by Environment+Energy Leader and sustained leadership in Guidehouse Insights' Home Energy Management report.

To date, Bidgely has helped its global customer base of over 40 utilities achieve more than 1.5 TWh of energy savings and significantly reduce peak load through behavioral and managed charging initiatives.

To learn how artificial intelligence is shaping the grid, listen to the webinar: Powering the Future with AI: Preparing the Grid for Rapid Demand Growth.

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.

Darcy Partners honors Bidgely for delivering technology that redefines how AI analytics tackle complexities at the grid edge.

Darcy Partners honors Bidgely for delivering technology that redefines how AI analytics tackle complexities at the grid edge.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sondra Lee, a dancer and actor discovered by the legendary choreographer-director Jerome Robbins and originated the role of Tiger Lily on Broadway in “Peter Pan” and played Minnie Fay in the original production of “Hello, Dolly!,” has died. She was 97.

Lee died Monday of natural causes in her New York City apartment, according to her friend and colleague, the Rev. Joshua Ellis, a former Broadway press agent.

After her dancing days, Lee taught at Stella Adler’s Conservatory and New York University. She also was a consultant to such films as “Places in the Heart” with Sally Field, “The Last of the Mohicans” with Daniel Day-Lewis and “The Morning After” starring Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges and Raul Julia.

In her 2009 memoir, “I’ve Slept With Everybody,” she recounted meeting Robbins at the Shubert Theatre. She had just missed his audition for “High Button Shoes” and did not know who he was.

“Oh,” she told him. “I just auditioned for ‘Allegro’ and they found I was too short so they let me go. So I'm going home to commit suicide.” Robbins replied: “Don't go home and commit suicide, come over here and dance for me.” She did and got the job, actually two comic roles in the show.

Robbins would become her champion and also gave her a nickname: “Peanuts,” from the Charles Shulz cartoon strip. “I had been given a gift and I ran with it,” she writes.

Other career highlights included supporting Bert Lahr and Angela Lansbury on Broadway in the farce “Hotel Paradiso,” a role in the Robert Redford-led “Sunday in New York” on Broadway and an uncredited turn in Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita.”

Lee originated the role of Tiger Lily in the 1954 Broadway production of “Peter Pan” — as well as playing the part in the 1955, 1956 and 1960 TV broadcasts of “Peter Pan” — working alongside Mary Martin.

In 1964, she began the longest run of her career. The director Gower Champion asked her to play Minnie Fay in the original production of “Hello, Dolly!” with Carol Channing. She would stay with the show for years and also tour with it from 1965-68.

Lee’s last public appearance was at Carnegie Hall in 2025 as part of the Transport Group’s concert performance of “Hello, Dolly!” She received a prolonged standing ovation.

This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Charles Schulz’s last name.

FILE - Sondra Lee, a cast member for the Broadway show "Hello Dolly1" appears backstage at the St. James Theater in New York on Oct. 14, 1964. (AP Photo/Harvey Lippman, File)

FILE - Sondra Lee, a cast member for the Broadway show "Hello Dolly1" appears backstage at the St. James Theater in New York on Oct. 14, 1964. (AP Photo/Harvey Lippman, File)

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