Wattmore

WATTMORE, Inc. is a Denver, Colorado software company that develops energy management system (EMS), power plant controller (PPC), and solar monitoring/data acquisition (DAS) software for battery storage, solar, microgrid, and data center projects. Its product family is branded Intellect and includes Intellect Operate (a battery EMS with a built-in power plant controller and site SCADA), Intellect PPC (grid-compliance functions such as frequency-watt and volt-VAR response, ramp-rate limiting, curtailment and AGC signal following), Intellect EnFORM (solar and storage monitoring, performance verification, and analytics), Intellect PLAN (battery sizing, load forecasting, and financial modeling), Intellect Edge (edge data collection gateway hardware), Intellect Dashboard (portfolio interface), and Solstice AI (analytics and optimization).

The software runs on ruggedized edge hardware at the site with cloud-based fleet analytics, and is positioned as vendor agnostic across inverters, batteries, PCS, BMS, and meters, with native support for Modbus RTU/TCP, DNP3, MQTT, HTTPS, and REST. Intellect Operate ships in a NEMA 4X enclosure with a communications hub, metering, and cellular link. Dispatch applications include peak shaving and demand charge management, time-of-use arbitrage, solar self-consumption, frequency regulation and spinning reserve, backup power and islanding, virtual power plant participation, and utility/ISO dispatch. The company states its architecture is built to IEEE 2800 for transmission-connected plants and IEEE 1547 for distribution-connected sites, aligned with NERC-CIP, and uses TLS 1.3 in transit.

WATTMORE reports five US patents on battery and energy management software with more pending, approval as an SGIP Performance Data Provider in California, and contributing membership in the SunSpec Alliance. Deployments range from a 150 kW behind-the-meter battery to utility-scale storage, and the company also serves data center, microgrid, and commercial and industrial loads.

Founding story

The company was founded in Denver in 2017 as Nikola Power by Jonathan W. Postal (JW), who describes starting it from his dining room table. Postal previously co-founded Main Street Power in 2008, a distributed-generation power purchase agreement and clean energy finance business, and held executive roles including Chief Development Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Milender White Construction, SunShare, and Clean Energy Collective. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado and holds a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

Business model

WATTMORE sells and deploys its Intellect software products together with edge controller hardware, supporting customers from project development and sizing through commissioning and long-term operations. Products can be bought individually (EMS, PPC, monitoring, sizing) or as a combined stack, with the EMS and power plant controller delivered in one control loop to avoid multi-vendor integration at commissioning.

Traction

The company reports over 100 million data points collected, more than 1 GW of deployment experience, over 25,000 solar panels monitored, and 50+ MWh managed. Live sites span the United States and Canada, from 150 kW behind-the-meter systems to utility-scale storage. Published field results include a 24% reduction in billed peak (50 kW shaved, roughly $1,300 avoided demand charges in one event at $26.37/kW) at E.S. Fox in Thorold, Ontario; 41.0 MWh delivered over seventeen months of unattended operation with 311 daily cycles, a 20% reserve floor, zero grid export and 76% round-trip efficiency at 303 Battery in Seattle; and about 99% of site power from solar at the off-grid Clutch site in Delta, Utah.

Latest developments

In September 2025 WATTMORE launched the Intellect EnFORM solar monitoring product. In 2026 it was recognized as an approved SGIP Performance Data Provider (August 2026), announced a non-exclusive strategic software and hardware collaboration with Eos Energy Enterprises combining Intellect Operate with Eos' Z3 long-duration zinc-based storage systems (August 2026), added sales and marketing staff (July 2026), and was awarded a project with GTI Energy to supply the EMS for a hydrogen-based microgrid research initiative in Des Plaines, Illinois (September 2026).