Prestigious Annual Award Recognizes the Most Innovative Companies and Products in the Global Clean Technology Industry
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BrightNight, a next-generation power producer delivering clean and dispatchable energy solutions for digital infrastructure and utilities, today announced that its industry-leading AI platform, PowerAlpha, has been named "CleanTech AI Innovation Of The Year" in the annual CleanTech Breakthrough Awards. The program is conducted by CleanTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout climate and clean technology companies, products and services around the globe.
As the first cognitive enterprise in Energy, BrightNight leverages PowerAlpha to deliver clean, reliable power at the lowest attainable cost across diverse geographies and power grids. PowerAlpha is a technology-agnostic AI platform that optimizes hybrid renewable project design, resource mix, and system configuration to ensure maximum dispatchability, resiliency, speed-to-market, and return on investment. It simulates millions of design iterations, integrating financial modeling to identify the ideal configuration for each customer's energy needs and broader business objectives. PowerAlpha continues to deliver value post-construction by using digital twin technology, continuous diagnostics, and predictive analytics to manage operations, optimize asset performance, minimize downtime risk, and make real-time dispatch decisions that ensure efficient, firm power with industry-leading economics.
"AI-native born PowerAlpha was built to reimagine how we generate and deliver clean as well as reliable energy," said Martin Hermann, CEO of BrightNight. "By combining advanced data science, machine learning, and power systems expertise, we're enabling the next generation of digital infrastructure and energy on both sides of the meter—smarter, faster, and more resilient. This award is an exciting validation of that mission."
"PowerAlpha revolutionizes the design, optimization, and operation of hybrid power projects. Renewable energy has the potential to supply 90 percent of global electricity by 2050 and the sector has seen unprecedented growth. However, renewable projects are complex and have a multi-decade project lifecycles, making them sensitive to risk and project assumptions," said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, CleanTech Breakthrough. "PowerAlpha helps take clean power solutions beyond their basic capability and meet the needs of the evolving energy grid. By fully integrating, designing, optimizing, and operating hybrid power projects with the foresight of integrating industry standard power flow and production cost models, BrightNight creates business and customer benefits spanning the entire project lifecycle."
About BrightNight
BrightNight is a next-generation power and digital infrastructure company, purpose-built to serve the evolving needs of utilities, data centers, and commercial and industrial customers. As a leading integrated power producer, BrightNight delivers clean, dispatchable, and resilient power solutions.
BrightNight's AI-native platform, PowerAlpha®, has enabled the development of a 37 GW portfolio comprising more than 70 best-in-class power projects, concentrated in the fastest-growing energy markets and data center hubs across the U.S. With a strong customer focus, a seasoned team of experts, and a trailblazing AI platform, BrightNight's projects deliver industry-leading performance, deployment time, economics, and uptime. Strategic investors include Goldman Sachs and Global Infrastructure Partners (BlackRock).
To learn more, visit www.brightnightpower.com.
About CleanTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CleanTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in energy, climate and clean technologies, services, companies and products around the world. The CleanTech Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of clean technology companies and products in categories including solar technology, smart grid, energy management, wind energy, waste & recycling, transportation and more. For more information visit CleanTechBreakthrough.com
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