Adrian Tuck, Chief Executive Officer, Tendril

Adrian Tuck

What makes him powerful: The energy industry is in the midst of transformational change driven by regulatory evolution, consumer awakening and innovative technology.

Utilities and energy service providers are coming under increasing pressure from regulators tasked with improving energy efficiency, restricting on new power plants, meeting the need to ensure safety, reliability and sustainability while at the same time ensuring consumer choice. At the same time, a consumer awakening is taking place as more consumers are plugging in EVs, PVs and leveraging renewables in an effort to save money and/or go green. New tools including smart meters, in-home displays, smart appliances and other consumer-facing technologies are similarly forcing change in the industry.

Adrian Tuck believes this transformation presents energy service providers with new opportunities and the ability to connect more closely with consumers. Tuck is part of the push toward energy service providers and utilities becoming "Connected Utilities" of the future.  The move from analogue to digital, decentralized to centralized, and carbon-based to renewable is being made through a cloud-based software platform -- Tendril Connect -- that provides the common communication, data exchange and integration layer needed to connect utilities, consumers and energy ecosystem partners. 

The platform abstracts the complexities of all these connections, helping utilities and energy service providers better connect from the meter to the home in order to comply with energy-efficiency mandates, improve demand response and load balancing, improve operational efficiencies, connect more closely with consumers, and improve environmental sustainability.

Increasing product demand from such energy service providers as Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), NSTAR, and Origin Energy (Australia), as well as by a growing list of partners, including Siemens Energy, Lockheed Martin and Whirlpool, make Tendril one of today's fastest growing clean tech companies.