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Uniting behind clean energy for Earth Day 2025 and beyond

As the world marks Earth Day 2025 under the banner of “our power, our planet”, the underlying call is broader: to tackle climate change, reduce carbon emissions, and transition to a sustainable, low-carbon future. Central to this mission is the global pledge to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. But this bold target isn’t just about increasing clean electricity supply; it’s about transforming how businesses engage with energy. That’s where GridBeyond comes in.

Accelerating the clean energy transition

GridBeyond, a global leader in AI-driven energy technologies, enables businesses across industries to play an active role in the energy transition. Through its innovative technology and solutions, GridBeyond connects commercial and industrial assets to energy markets—unlocking value while helping stabilise grids and integrate renewables.

By enabling flexibility, automation, and smart energy trading, GridBeyond empowers businesses to:

• support increased adoption of solar, wind, and battery storage
• reduce dependency on fossil fuels
• contribute directly to the global target of tripling clean electricity by 2030

On Earth Day 2025, there’s never been a more critical time for businesses to take action.

Smart energy through AI and automation

GridBeyond’s award-winning technology uses AI and machine learning to forecast energy needs, optimise asset performance, and maximise returns—while reducing emissions. This tech-first approach helps businesses to reduce energy waste, support renewables and Improve energy resilience during periods of volatility. This aligns directly with Earth Day’s vision for innovation-led solutions to climate and environmental challenges.

From insight to impact: real-world results

Across sectors—from heavy industry and manufacturing to logistics, healthcare, and public infrastructure—GridBeyond clients are already reaping the benefits:

• reduced carbon footprints
• new revenue streams from demand-side response and energy trading
• enhanced ESG credentials
• scalable support to reach net zero

Read our case studies to find out how, by working with GridBeyond, businesses don’t just talk sustainability—they embed it in operations.

• Client Spotlight: Amshore -Using GridBeyond’s AI. Trade, Amshore ran thousands of 12-month simulation models to find the optimal mix of renewable power generation and storage.
• Client Spotlight: Keppel DC REIT – Keppel DCR REIT (Ireland) is a global company that manages and operates assets, focusing on data centers. The business has chosen GridBeyond to deliver a BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) at two of their sites, and secure a CPPA (Corporate Power Purchase Agreement) contract from an Irish wind farm that will help drive revenue.  
• Client Spotlight: O-I Glass – Energy storage system at O-I’s Alloa, UK, plant helps balance the grid, reduces peak load, optimizes the use of renewable electricity, and increases O-I’s resilience against brownouts.
• Client Spotlight: Carey Glass – For more than 50 years, Carey Glass has been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with glass investing in the people, technology and equipment needed to help clients complete projects that both impress and perform.
• Client Spotlight: Tarmac CRH– Tarmac plants have been connected to GridBeyond platform, Point. Tarmac receives regular monthly revenue, all without any capital expenditure or impact on operations. Besides financial gains, the collaboration with GridBeyond supports Tarmac’s commitment to minimise its environmental impact and increase efficiency and sustainability.
• Client Spotlight: City of York Council and Evo Energy – Explore how City of York is using an EV charging ‘HyperHub’ to help National Grid and earn revenue.
• Client Spotlight: Milver Metals – GridBeyond and Milver have been successfully working together since 2015. Everyday, GridBeyond sends to Milver an “Energy Metering and Automated Daily Reporting” with visualisation via the “GridBeyond ViewPoint Portal” about revenues generated. The report also shows the carbon emissions generated and helping Milver Metal towards its sustainability goals.
• Client Spotlight: MAT Foundry Eurac Poole – With over half a century of experience supplying the automotive industry, Eurac Poole is the leading specialist manufacturer in the casting and machining of brake discs.
• Client Spotlight: GFG Alliance Businesses, SIMEC Energy & ALVANCE Aluminium Lochaber – Learn how GFG Alliance Businesses, SIMEC Energy & ALVANCE Aluminium Lochaber enhanced their energy strategy with GridBeyond
• Client Spotlight: United Cast Bar – Learn how United Cast Bar are pioneering new energy frontiers in the metals industry.
• Private: Client Spotlingt: Outokumpu – Outokumpu is the global leader in stainless steel. The company cornerstone is to enable growth and innovation through environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable stainless steel products to benefit modern society for generations to come.
• Client Spotlight: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust – The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and GridBeyond have been working together since 2020 as the Trust was looking for new opportunities in the energy market, better utilisation of onsite generation assets and reduction and improvements in demand management.
• Client Spotlight: GXO – Since the begin of its collaboration, the company has been using GridBeyond’s innovative and award-winning energy intelligent cloud-based platform, where sites that are flexible with their consumption are financially rewarded for shifting or reducing demand, or by making capacity available when needed.
• Client Spotlight: Cold Move – A client of both DawsonGroup and GridBeyond, Cold Move, was looking to participate in demand side response programmes, which included National Grid’s balancing services and price optimisation, by using the inherent energy flexibility within their refrigeration assets.
• Client Spotlight: HSH Coldstores – HSH Coldstores are a cold storage and distribution organisation based in the United Kingdom. The business operates across 5 cold storage sites across the country and has a fleet of over 40 HGV lorries.
• Client Spotlight: Reed Boardall – Reed Boardall is one of the leading temperature controlled fooddistribution businesses in the UK. With one of the largest coldstorage facilities in Europe, Reed Boardall’s 7 high tech coldstore chambers boast 142,000 pallet capacity and blast freezingcapabilities for over 100 tonnes per day.
• Client Spotlight: Green Generation – Green Generation partnered with GridBeyond in 2016, when Billy Costello and family decided to optimised their CHP/AD plant, by placing its flexibility into demand side response programmes.
  Green Generation generates heat and electricity for the piggery from a combined heat and power (CHP) unit, and uses the same CHP to participate in demand side response.
• Private: Client Spotlight: TH Clements – Learn how TH Clements enhanced their energy strategy with GridBeyond…
• Private: Client Spotlight: Natures Way Foods – Learn how Natures Way Foods optimised their energy strategy using GridBeyond’s technology.
• Client Spotlight: Brakes a Sysco Company – Read more on Brakes a Sysco Company’s experience and download the full case study.
• Client Spotlight: Smurfit Kappa – On meeting, Smurfit Kappa expressed an interest in using their embedded generation to support the grid in decarbonising. They were also keen to boost their sustainability strategy by implementing the technology. The installation was completed by our team of experts, who took into consideration every aspect of operational constraints, with full knowledge and understanding of the assets.
• Client Spotlight: Supervalu – GridBeyond worked with an 80kW SuperValu site to seamlessly transition from DSU to high-earning DS3 simply by using their generator more. 316%+ increase in revenues.
• Client Spotlight: Western Brand – Western Brand selected GridBeyond as their energy partner in 2017, when they were looking to create energy efficiencies within the business. Understanding the direction of the energy market in Ireland, Western Brand connected their site to GridBeyond’s advanced platform so that they could also participate in revenue programmes and trading opportunities with ease, whilst boosting sustainability.
• Client Spotlight: Northern Ireland Water – Read more on Northern Ireland Water’s GridBeyond experience, and download the full case study.

This Earth Day isn’t just a symbolic event—it’s a reminder that every organisation has a part to play in climate action. GridBeyond helps businesses move from intention to impact, offering a clear path forward—one that is profitable, practical, and aligned with Earth Day’s mission.