Congratulations Edo

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the David & Patricia Giuliani Clean Energy Entrepreneur Award, Edo!

Washington State Senator Joe Nguyen, Clean & Prosperous Institute Executive Director Michael Mann, Edo Managing Director Hendrik Van Hemert and Edo Marketing Director Hellai Sherzoi

Accepting the award from incoming Department of Commerce Director Joe Nguyen, Edo’s Hellai Sherzoi said, “We are proud to be part of this community of forward-thinking organizations and leaders working to address climate challenges and promote clean energy. This award inspires us to continue pushing boundaries and accelerating our impact on a decarbonized, grid-interactive future.”

The award, named after our organization’s founder and his wife, recognizes meaningful advances in clean energy innovation. With so much clean energy innovation in Washington state, this year’s winner will earn significant bragging rights, and follow in the footsteps of three forward-thinking innovators: Kenworth, Myno Carbon, and Group14. 

Michael Mann, Executive Director of the Clean & Prosperous Institute said it was especially difficult to select a winner this year, given that “there were so many strong nominees and each of the finalists was deserving of recognition”. Along with Edo, the other two finalists for this year’s award were Airbuild and Atlas Agro.

The award ceremony capped off the 7th annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum, held this year at the Muckleshoot Event Center in Auburn, where participants heard about incentives for decarbonizing medium- and heavy-duty trucks, plans for deploying advanced power technologies (including fission and fusion) to meet burgeoning demand, and challenges facing lawmakers in Olympia as they prepare to open session next week.

Delegates on this year’s Clean & Prosperous Institute Made in Washington Study Mission got to see first-hand Edo’s South Landing Eco District in Spokane, the first large-scale demonstration of how buildings can be transformed into efficient, reliable grid assets. According to Edo, the South Landing Eco District is an all-electric, grid-interactive campus that communicates with the utility grid, creating a seamless flow of energy. During the visit, Edo management shared their vision of a built environment that harmonizes more effectively with the utility through real-time power monitoring and load management, distributed power storage, and thermal exchange technology. By deploying an “active partnership” strategy, buildings operate more efficiently and reduce electricity demand peaks. Best practices learned in this “lab” can be shared and scaled. 

Central energy plant at Edo’s Scott Morris Center for Energy Innovation.

Edo is all about Energy & Demand Optimization. Edo partners with utilities to transform buildings, making them grid-interactive to achieve energy efficiency, reliability, and decarbonization. Created by McKinstry and Avista, two corporate leaders representing both sides of the electric meter, Edo aggregates commercial buildings into virtual power plants (VPPs), providing electric utilities with demand flexibility.

To learn more about Edo, go to EdoEnergy.com.