Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Startup Spotlight: REN3for Corp.

By: Alabama News Center Staff

Alabama News Center: What is your company’s overall focus and mission?

Lisa Brunet: Mission: Accelerating the transition to a sustainable future by utilizing technology to lower renewable energy costs and increase their efficiency. Focus: We are developing the most accurate weather prediction software product on the market, which will allow our customers to maximize energy production, reduce consumption and achieve significant cost savings.

ANC: What inspired you to start this company? How do you want to contribute to the future of energy and tech?

Brunet: We were working with an energy company that generated electricity via wind turbines. They complained that the weather prediction product they were using wasn’t very accurate, which often caused them to miscalculate how much electricity they should generate. If they generated too much, the price per unit went down; if they generated too little, they didn’t meet all the demand. Either way, they were not maximizing their potential revenue. They asked us to develop a more accurate forecasting tool to allow them to maximize their revenues and profitability. Our tool predicts temperature, wind speed and wind direction with 99% accuracy up to 96 hours in advance, which allowed the energy company to correctly calculate the amount of energy to generate to maximize their revenues. We are currently working to add functionality to predict additional weather factors, such as precipitation type and amount, and also to add predictive ability based on geolocation.

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