Enurgen

Enurgen is an Ottawa, Ontario-based energy software company that develops DUET, a 3D physics-based platform for modeling and monitoring the performance of utility-scale solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage assets. The platform produces high-resolution, terrain-aware solar irradiance and energy-yield simulations, with incident light calculations that scale from individual solar cells to gigawatt-scale projects, and uses that model as a performance baseline against operating data.

DUET is applied across the asset lifecycle. In design, it is used for digital-twin modeling and terrain-aware site optimization; during construction it supports capacity testing analysis and operational checks ahead of commercial operation date (COD); in operations it performs minutely, string-level expected-versus-actual analysis, multi-meteo irradiance modeling, normalized peer-to-peer comparisons, and automated root-cause loss detection that separates recoverable from non-recoverable losses and ranks issues by MWh and dollar impact. Outputs include automated action plans, real-time loss waterfalls, and daily, weekly and monthly reporting. The software integrates with existing plant infrastructure via OPC UA connections and with CMMS tools, and can be deployed on-premise to meet enterprise security and data-governance requirements.

The technology originated as DUET (DUal-sided Energy Tracer), a cell-to-system-level bifacial modeling software developed over roughly seven years within the SUNLAB research group at the University of Ottawa. Enurgen states that accurate bifacial modeling matters because more than 80% of utility-scale solar systems use bifacial modules, and describes its modeling of bifacial systems as accurate to within 1%, against an average utility-scale plant underperformance of 7-13%.

Founding story

Enurgen was founded in 2022 and spun out of the SUNLAB research group at the University of Ottawa, where its core DUET (DUal-sided Energy Tracer) bifacial modeling software had been under development for about seven years. Its founding team comprised Kibby Pollak (CEO), Dr. Christopher Valdivia (CTO), Professor Karin Hinzer (President and SUNLAB founder), and Professor Henry Schriemer (Head of Research, Secretary and SUNLAB associate director); Elias Hussary (VP Engineering) and RJ Obhi (Head of Business Development & Marketing) joined subsequently.

Business model

Enurgen sells its DUET platform as software to owners and operators of utility-scale solar and battery storage portfolios, offered as a cloud or on-premise deployment within customer infrastructure. Commercial entry points include demo requests and a scoped engagement running a full loss analysis across three sites over 60 days.

Traction

The company reports deployment across more than 160 sites internationally, over 10 GW of capacity, presence in more than 20 countries and on five continents, and a 6.5 GW deployment portfolio. Published customer examples cite an 11% increase in specific energy yield from terrain-aware design optimization, identification of a $165,000-per-month production leak within 24 hours of deployment on a distressed asset, detection of offline strings missed by a drone survey, and a 2.9% plant performance improvement at a 50 MW solar plant.

Latest developments

In October 2025 Enurgen closed a $4.1 million seed round co-led by the Business Development Bank of Canada, Brightspark and Diagram with participation from MaRS IAF, earmarked for global expansion of its flagship platform. The company is recruiting for open roles and publishes case studies on plant performance improvement and forecast-to-actual gap analysis.