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Elastic Energy seeks 500‑home Connecticut pilot to create feeder‑level flexibility with plug‑and‑play energy routers
Summary
Elastic Energy proposed a 500‑home, 18‑month pilot across three Hartford nodes plus New Haven and New London to install plug‑and‑play “energy routers” that make distributed devices dispatchable and create roughly 300 kW of verifiable, dispatch‑ready flexible load for feeder‑level congestion relief.
Elastic Energy CEO Ben Hilborn presented a proposal for an 18‑month, 500‑home pilot in Connecticut that would deploy the company’s “energy router” at customer premises to aggregate dispatchable load and provide feeder‑level congestion management. Hilborn said the technology is OEM‑agnostic and compatible with batteries, HVAC, EV chargers and water heaters, and that the system is robust to connectivity and grid disturbances.
The proposed deployment targets three nodes in Hartford and one node each in New Haven and New London; Elastic would recruit participants…
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