HST
San Francisco, US · 44 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
HST Powers develops software for clean energy project development, optimization, and procurement, serving clean energy developers building large-scale projects. The platform helps assess and build projects that deliver clean energy to the grid.
Also known as HST Powers
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026HST is a software company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area whose product, View, is a platform for clean energy project developers working on utility-scale solar and battery energy storage (BESS) projects. The platform spans three functional areas: Develop Marketplace, where developers connect with qualified landowners and execute Site Control Agreements (SCAs) on pre-optimized sites; Analyze, a subscription module for technical and commercial feasibility modeling, including landowner lease or purchase pricing, site boundary variations, and P90 modeling; and Originate, where developers list projects to a marketplace and receive curated matches with pre-vetted energy buyers (offtakers) for Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), filtered on criteria such as location, credit score, PPA price and target commercial operation date.
The company positions View as a way to compress early-stage development and origination timelines, citing feasibility analysis roughly 5x faster than conventional processes and pre-vetted contract terms for both SCAs and PPA term sheets. Scenario analysis lets users reprice and republish listings as interest rates, interconnection availability, equipment prices and supply chain conditions shift. Third-party technology and services from partners including DNV and Norton Rose Fulbright are integrated into the platform, and users can be matched with service-provider partners to further de-risk projects.
HST frames its mission as building a zero-carbon world by digitizing how clean energy is developed, sold and procured, and states that its platform has been used by top-tier clean energy developers to assess, optimize and build grid-connected projects.
Founding story
HST was co-founded by Rudy Roy and Santanov Chaudhuri, who were previously clean energy developers themselves. In a founders' letter they describe launching the company "a decade ago" to apply cloud computing and SaaS models to the process of developing and transacting clean energy projects, initially aiming to make projects more transparent to transact with and later broadening to vertically integrating the information needed to build new clean power infrastructure.
Business model
HST sells access to its View software platform, including a subscription to the Analyze module and marketplace-based transaction workflows connecting developers with landowners and energy buyers. Prospective users can begin with a free trial and self-serve sign-up.
Software platform access, described in terms of subscriptions (for example an Analyze subscription) and free trials that convert to paid use.
Traction
The company states its platform has been used by many top-tier clean energy developers and that it has accelerated tens of millions of clean energy MWhs. Named practitioners from Lightsource BP, EDP Renewables North America, Silicon Ranch, Hanwha Q Cells USA, FRV, Avangrid Renewables and E.ON Climate & Renewables (now RWE) describe using View for early-stage project evaluation, site optimization and origination; one former EDP Renewables engineering manager cites project return gains of as much as 60 basis points from early development-stage search.
Latest developments
HST's site references an investment and partnership involving DNV, with DNV technology and site-specific data integrated into the View platform, and describes an ongoing expansion of marketplace functionality for site control and PPA contracting.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positions itself as a digital backbone for clean energy project origination and development, differentiating from other software providers by claiming its platform has helped move projects through to construction rather than only providing analysis.
Combines analytics with transactable marketplaces for both site control and offtake, pre-vetted counterparties and standardized SCA and PPA term-sheet terms, integrated partner technology (DNV, Norton Rose Fulbright), and claimed 5x faster feasibility evaluation.
Technology
A cloud-based software platform, View, combining site and project analytics (technical and commercial feasibility, scenario analysis, LCOE and design iteration, P90 modeling with site-specific data from DNV) with two-sided marketplaces for land and offtake. The founders describe building on cloud computing and SaaS models and solving computing problems needed to vertically integrate the information required to develop clean power infrastructure.
Go-to-market
Self-service entry via a free trial and marketplace browsing, supported by downloadable platform, marketplace and origination brochures and a Develop Marketplace case study; adoption is evidenced through named practitioner testimonials from large developer organizations, and distribution is reinforced by partnerships with DNV and Norton Rose Fulbright.
Utility-scale clean energy project developers and independent power producers, origination and development-engineering teams, plus the counterparties they transact with: landowners, energy buyers/offtakers, and construction and service providers.
Geography
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area; cited users and testimonials come largely from North American operations of international developers, and the company describes a global clean energy mission.
History
The founders describe a roughly decade-long history involving scrapped plans, long sales cycles, hands-on work on clean energy construction sites, and shifting markets, political environments and technology prices. Over that period the platform was adopted by clean energy developers, with the company stating it has accelerated tens of millions of clean energy MWhs. The founders characterize the current period as a next phase of scaling, framed against post-Inflation Reduction Act project proliferation alongside permitting delays and interconnection queue congestion.
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Key figures
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Competitors · 4
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Companies competing with HST for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsHST's website cites DNV executives describing an investment and partnership between DNV and HST, with DNV software and site-specific data integrated into the View platform to help de-risk projects.
HST lists Norton Rose Fulbright alongside DNV as a trusted partner whose technologies and services are available directly within the View platform.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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primary sources listed
- HSThstpowers.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does HST do?
- HST builds View, a software platform for utility-scale solar and storage developers to analyze sites and contract land and offtake.
- Who are HST's investors?
- HST's investors include Intelis Capital, Peak Sustainability Ventures, Skyview Ventures, Storm Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures.
- Where is HST headquartered?
- HST is headquartered in San Francisco, US.