Opower

Our purpose is to engage the millions of people who are in the dark about their energy use.

We partnered with our first utility client in 2007 from a rented desk in San Francisco. Since then, we've grown into a well-capitalized business with more than 250 employees serving more than 75 utilities—-including 8 of the US's 10 largest. Our platform now reaches more than 15 million homes around the world. Together with our clients and their customers, we're saving energy, saving money, and helping reduce carbon emissions.

  1. 2013
  2. 2012
  3. 2011
  4. 2010
  5. 2009
  6. 2008
  7. 2007
  8. Pre-Opower

  1. 2013

    1. Timeling-01
      2 terawatt hours saved.
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  2. 2012

    1. Timeline_international2
      First Utility becomes our first international utility partner.
    2. Timeline_sfoffice
      San Francisco Mayor Lee helps Opower open up our new office space.
    3. 1twh
      1 terawatt hour saved.
    4. Timeline_sociallaunch
      Opower Energy Social App goes live.
    5. 750 gigawatt hours saved.
    6. 75_dollars
      $75 million in energy savings
    7. 1bill_lbs
      1 billion pounds of CO2 abated.
    8. Timeline_25mreports
      25 million reports sent.
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  3. 2011

    1. 500gwh
      500 gigawatt hours saved.
    2. 40under40
      Fortune names 40 Under 40. Our founders Dan Yates and Alex Laskey named among the hottest young stars in business!
    3. Social_timeline
      Opower goes social with Facebook and NRDC as partners.
    4. 50mil_dollars
      $50 million in energy savings.
    5. Bigben
      Opower crosses the pond! First Utility becomes our first UK utility partner.
    6. 400 gigawatt hours saved.
    7. $40 million in energy savings.
    8. 500 million pounds of CO2 abated.
    9. $30 million in energy savings.
    10. Alice-tanner_sm
      Our 200th employee (Alice Tanner, Senior Sales Operations Analyst) starts.
    11. Opower wins the two largest Smart Grid deployments in the US: PG&E and BGE.
    12. 300 gigawatt hours saved.
    13. $20 million in energy savings.
    14. Wall-street-journal-logo
      The Wall Street Journal names Opower one of the US’s top-10 cleantech companies.
    15. National Grid wins "Energy Efficiency/Demand Response Project of the Year" at DistribuTECH for their Home Energy Reporting program.
    16. 200 gigawatt hours saved.
    17. Washington-post-logo_sm
      The Washington Post names Opower one of “5 Companies that will lead in 2011.”
    18. Opower comes to New York.
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  4. 2010

    1. Greenjobs
      We win a Green Jobs Award.
    2. Opower raises $50 million with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Accel Partners to expand our staff and supercharge our product innovation efforts.
    3. 800px-south_of_market__san_francisco
      Our San Francisco office moves to SoMA.
    4. The World Economic Forum names Opower a Global Tech Pioneer.
    5. Tyler_sm
      Our 100th employee (Tyler Bronder, Senior Software Engineer) starts.
    6. Energy Alerts go live.
    7. Our first AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) deployment.
    8. 10mil_dollars
      $10 million in energy savings.
    9. 100gwh
      100 gigawatt hours saved.
    10. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) embraces behavior-based efficiency as a potentially "game-changing" technology.
    11. Obama_opower
      Obama visits Opower: It's not every day the President stops to televise a national policy speech and applaud your company’s achievements!
    12. Nicole_sm
      Our 50th employee (Nicole Poindexter, Director, Business Development) starts.
    13. Heating/Cooling disaggregation launches.
    14. 100 million pounds of CO2 abated.
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  5. 2009

    1. "Astro"—our expanded customer web portal—is born.
    2. UDSL (Universal Data Services Layer) first used.
    3. Building
      Goodbye Rosslyn: Opower HQ moves down the road to Courthouse in Arlington, Virginia.
    4. Opower_logo
      Hello Opower! We re-name our company.
    5. Opower President Alex Laskey goes to the White House to brief President Obama.
    6. BusinessWeek names us one of “50 Tech Start-Ups to Know About.”
    7. Positive Energy comes to Colorado, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
    8. Neighborrank
      "Neighbor Rank" is invented.
    9. We're mentioned on ABC's Good Morning America
    10. New-york-times-logo
      Front-page story in The New York Times!
    11. Platform 2.0, including “Dino”—our first customer web portal—is born.
    12. 1mil_dollars
      $1 million in energy savings.
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  6. 2008

    1. Positive Energy comes to Illinois.
    2. $14 million in funding raised from New Enterprise Associates.
    3. Our first AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) deployment.
    4. Positive Energy comes to Minnesota.
    5. 1mil_lbs
      1 million pounds of CO2 abated.
    6. 1gwh
      1 gigawatt hour of energy saved.
    7. Southern California Edison becomes our third client.
    8. First megawatt of energy saved. (SMUD customers actually saved 28 megawatt hours during the first month of our program.)
    9. First paper Home Energy Reports printed and delivered for SMUD.
    10. Positive Energy comes to Washington state: Puget Sound Energy becomes our second client.
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  7. 2007

    1. Our first client partner signs on: a 35,000 home pilot for SMUD, Sacramento’s municipal utility (long an innovator in the electricity industry).
    2. First round of funding raised ($1.5 million, led by MHS Capital).
    3. Jeff-kolesky_sm
      Our first employee (Jeff Kolesky, Chief Software Architect) starts.
    4. Positiveenergy_logo
      Dan and Alex found Positive Energy in San Francisco.
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  8. Pre-Opower

    1. 4.film.assisted
      2004: Alex produces a feature film, Assisted Living. Opens in 40 cities.
    2. 2003: Houghton Mifflin acquires Edusoft.
    3. 2000: Dan founds Edusoft.
    4. Harvard_sm
      1999: Dan and Alex graduate from Harvard.
    5. 1984: Robert Cialdini publishes Influence.
    6. 1976: Edward Hammer creates the first spiral tube compact fluorescent lightbulb.
    7. Hula
      1958: Richard Knerr and Arthur “Spud” Melin manufacture the first plastic Hula-Hoop®.
    8. 1879: Thomas Edison files for US patent 223,898.
    9. Hitov_sm
      1858: Panayov Hitov becomes a hajduk, grows serious moustache.
    10. 1790: Washington, DC is founded.
    11. 1766: The Presidio of San Francisco is established.
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