# WATTMORE

> WATTMORE, Inc. is a Denver, Colorado software company, founded in 2017 as Nikola Power, that builds energy management system (EMS), power plant controller (PPC), and solar monitoring (DAS) software for battery storage, solar, microgrid, and data center projects. The products run under one platform called Intellect, are vendor agnostic across inverters, batteries, and meters, and are deployed at live client sites in the United States and Canada. WATTMORE is a software company and is not affiliated with any solar installation business that shares the name.

Key facts
- Company: WATTMORE, Inc. Headquarters: 3000 Lawrence St #232, Denver, CO 80205. Phone +1 888 581 4841. Email info@wattmore.com.
- Founded 2017 (as Nikola Power). CEO and founder Jonathan W. Postal. Chief Technology Officer Eric Hinckley.
- Holds five US patents on battery and energy management technology, with more pending.
- Products: Intellect Operate (battery EMS), Intellect PPC (power plant controller), Intellect EnFORM (solar and storage DAS), Intellect PLAN (sizing and financial modeling), Solstice (AI assistant across the platform).
- Protocols supported: Modbus RTU and TCP, DNP3, MQTT, HTTPS, REST. Compliance work referenced on the site: IEEE 2800, IEEE 1547, NERC CIP ready, UL 61010, IEC 62443, SGIP performance data provider.
- Profiles: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/wattmore, Crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wattmore, Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141250802, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@WATTMOREInc.
- Full text of every guide and post: https://www.wattmore.com/llms-full.txt

## Products

- [Intellect Operate](https://www.wattmore.com/operate): A battery energy management system that decides when a battery charges, when it discharges, and how it takes part in grid services and energy markets. Real time dispatch, demand charge management, solar self consumption, microgrid forming, market participation, and fleet management.
- [Intellect PPC](https://www.wattmore.com/ppc): A power plant controller for battery energy storage delivered as an add on to Intellect Operate. Frequency droop, voltage and reactive power control, ramp rate limiting, state of charge protection, fleet dispatch across inverters. IEEE 2800 compliant.
- [Intellect EnFORM](https://www.wattmore.com/enform): A solar monitoring and data acquisition system that collects data from inverters, meters, weather stations, trackers, transformers, and reclosers at 30 second resolution and produces performance analytics and reports.
- [Intellect PLAN](https://www.wattmore.com/plan): Battery sizing and energy storage financial modeling software with load forecasting, solar plus storage sizing, revenue stacking, and incentive modeling, using the same optimization algorithms that run Intellect Operate in the field.
- [Solstice](https://www.wattmore.com/solstice): An AI assistant that analyzes performance, supports operations and customer service, and answers questions across the Intellect platform.

## Reference pages

- [Energy Management System for Battery Storage](https://www.wattmore.com/energy-management-system): What an EMS does, how it works with a PPC, BMS, and SCADA, and what to look for in one.
- [Projects](https://www.wattmore.com/projects): Deployed sites with sizes, partners, and links to field reports with measured results.
- [Leadership Team](https://www.wattmore.com/team): Leaders and authors, with stable anchors used by article bylines.
- [Blog](https://www.wattmore.com/blog): Guides, field reports, and company news. RSS feed at https://www.wattmore.com/feed.xml.

## Guides

- [What Is a Battery Energy Storage EMS?](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/what-is-a-battery-energy-storage-ems): A battery energy storage EMS decides when a battery charges and discharges and how much power it moves. What it decides, what it is not, and how it earns.
- [EMS vs BMS vs SCADA vs PPC: Who Does What in a BESS](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/ems-vs-bms-vs-scada-vs-ppc): The four control layers in a battery storage plant: the BMS protects cells, the EMS decides dispatch, the PPC enforces grid code, and SCADA supervises.
- [What Is a DAS in Solar?](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/what-is-a-solar-das): A solar DAS polls inverters, meters, weather stations, and trackers and logs the readings. Devices, protocols, sampling resolution, and who requires one.
- [How Does a Power Plant Controller Work?](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/how-a-power-plant-controller-works): A power plant controller measures the point of interconnection, compares it to a setpoint or utility command, and dispatches inverters to meet grid code.
- [IEEE 2800 Requirements for the Power Plant Controller](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/ieee-2800-power-plant-controller-requirements): IEEE 2800 requirements that land on the power plant controller: frequency response, voltage control, ramp rate, ride through, and measurement data.
- [SGIP Monitoring Requirements for Battery Storage](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/sgip-monitoring-requirements): SGIP Handbook monitoring rules for storage: 15 minute meter data, the Performance Data Provider, meter rules above and below 30 kW, and missing data.
- [What Is Peak Shaving With Battery Storage?](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/peak-shaving-with-battery-storage): Peak shaving explained: how demand charges bill the highest 15 minute interval, how a battery lowers that peak, a worked example, and the failure modes.
- [How to Size a Battery for Solar Plus Storage](https://www.wattmore.com/learn/how-to-size-a-battery-for-solar-plus-storage): How to size a battery for solar plus storage: choose kW and kWh separately from load data, the solar profile, and the tariff, with a worked example.

## Blog posts and field reports

- [WATTMORE and Eos Energy Enterprises Announce Strategic Software and Energy Storage Agreement](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-and-eos-energy-enterprises-announce-strategic-software-and-energy-storage-agreement): Companies combine WATTMORE's Intellect OperateTM EMS/PPC/SCADA platform with Eos' Z3TM technology to simplify deployment in a fully integrated solutionDENVER, CO and PITTSBURGH, PA (August 24, 2026) –...
- [The Real Cost of Storage Ownership](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/real-cost-of-storage-ownership): Ask three vendors what a battery energy storage system costs and you will get three numbers, all of them incomplete. Not because anyone is lying, but because the number they quote is the price of the...
- [WATTMORE Approved as SGIP Performance Data Provider](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-approved-as-sgip-performance-data-provider): WATTMORE is proud to announce that it has been approved by the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) Working Group (WG) to provide Performance Data Provider (PDP) services for SGIP projects, using...
- [Legacy Controls, Working Equipment: Inside WATTMORE's Solar + Storage EMS & DAS Removal-and-Replace Capability](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/legacy-controls-working-equipment-inside-wattmore-s-solar-storage-ems-das-removal-and-replace-capability): Across the country, there are solar and storage energy management systems sitting idle for one reason only: the controls have failed. The panels are fine. The batteries are fine. The inverters are fin...
- [WATTMORE's Ribbon Cutting Makes Headlines!](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-s-ribbon-cutting-makes-headlines): WATTMORE announced the completion of the construction phase of our 3 MW / 12MWh Energy Storage Project for the Nebraska utility, Lincoln Electric System (LES), with final commissioning within the comi...
- [WATTMORE Is Your Mission Critical Operations Solution: Certified Hardware and Software, End to End](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/mission-critical-operations-platform-data-centers): WATTMORE is the mission critical operations solution for facilities that cannot blink: certified hardware and certified software, delivered end to end by one company. EMS, PPC, SCADA, DAS, metering, recloser and transformer monitoring, weather integration, and microgrids, with the certifications and proof points behind them.
- [FEOC and BABA Compliance: What They Mean for Your EMS, SCADA, PPC, and DAS Equipment](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/feoc-compliance-ems-scada-ppc-das): FEOC compliance has quickly become one of the most important procurement requirements in the American solar and energy storage industry. If you are developing, financing, or operating a solar or batte...
- [WATTMORE Welcomes Two New Team Members: Jenna Krinsky and Calvin Postal](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-welcomes-jenna-krinsky-calvin-postal): WATTMORE is excited to announce two new members of our team. We want to welcome Jenna Krinsky as our Sales, Marketing, Business Development Coordinator, and Calvin Postal as a Sales and Marketing Inte...
- [Intellect PLAN Adds Front of the Meter Solar and Storage Sizing for ERCOT](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/intellect-plan-ercot-ftm-solar-storage-sizing): Intellect PLAN, WATTMORE's financial planning and system sizing platform at wattmoreplan.com, now includes a full front of the meter (FTM) solar and storage sizing tool for ERCOT. Developers and asset...
- [Intellect Operate EMS Passes Yaskawa Solectria Solar Lab Testing — Now an Approved Vendor](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/intellect-operate-ems-yaskawa-solectria-solar-approved-vendor): WATTMORE is proud to announce that our patented Intellect Operate Battery Energy Management System (EMS) has successfully passed functional and safety testing with top tier hardware partner Yaskawa So...
- [What Is a Virtual Power Plant — and Why It Is the Smartest Thing You Can Do With Solar and Storage](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/what-is-a-virtual-power-plant-vpp): Solar panels and batteries are going up everywhere;on homes, businesses, and industrial sites at record pace. But here is the uncomfortable truth: most of those batteries are dumb. They sit on the wal...
- [Intellect PLAN Now Models Connecticut and Massachusetts Storage Incentives](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/intellect-plan-connecticut-massachusetts-storage-incentives): Intellect PLAN now ships with two new application types built specifically for the Northeast: Connecticut Storage Sizing and Massachusetts Storage Sizing. With these additions, PLAN covers eight purpo...
- [Seventeen Months on Autopilot: 303 Battery Storage Operations in Seattle](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/303-battery-storage-operations-seattle): For seventeen months, a battery storage system at a Seattle apartment community ran itself. At 303 Battery, a residential tower in Belltown wrapped in solar, WATTMORE’s Intellect Operate ran a d...
- [A Stranded Solar Plant, Turned On by Software: Inside the Clutch Off-Grid Microgrid](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/clutch-off-grid-solar-microgrid): In rural Delta, Utah, a 1.75 MW solar plant was fully built but never connected, the grid upgrade needed to energize it was too costly, leaving a valuable asset idle. WATTMORE’s Intellect O...
- [Peak-Shaving in Real Time: How Intellect Operate Cuts Demand Charges at E.S. Fox](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/es-fox-demand-charge-peak-shaving): At an industrial fabrication facility in Thorold, Ontario, a 150 kW / 444 kWh battery is quietly rewriting the monthly power bill. E.S. Fox Limited’s behind-the-meter storage system, c...
- [DAS and EnFORM Are Infrastructure: Why You Must Standardize Your Monitoring Platform](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/das-and-enform-are-infrastructure-standardize-monitoring): Every energy project needs a data acquisition system (DAS). Every energy portfolio needs a standardized one. DAS and monitoring are not line items you select on a project by project basis; they are in...
- [ERCOT 4CP Management for BESS: How WATTMORE Automates Coincident Peak Response](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/ercot-4cp-management-bess-coincident-peak-response): If you operate battery energy storage in Texas, four fifteen-minute windows each summer determine a significant share of your annual transmission costs. These are the ERCOT 4CP intervals, the four coi...
- [The Storage Revolution: Analyzing SEIA’s Historic 2025 Energy Storage Report](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/the-storage-revolution-analyzing-seia-s-historic-2025-energy-storage-report): The energy landscape shifted permanently in 2025. According to the new U.S. Energy Storage Market Outlook from SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the U.S. storage industry didn’t just grow, it e...
- [How to Choose the Best Energy Management System for Battery Storage](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/best-energy-management-system-battery-storage): Selecting the best energy management system for a battery storage project is one of the highest-leverage decisions a developer or asset owner will make. The energy management system controls every dis...
- [Energy Management System vs Power Plant Controller: What's the Difference?](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/energy-management-system-vs-power-plant-controller): If you are developing, financing, or operating a battery energy storage system, you have almost certainly encountered two terms that cause persistent confusion: energy management system and power plan...
- [What Is a Power Plant Controller and Why Every BESS Project Needs One](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/what-is-a-power-plant-controller): Every utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) that connects to the grid needs a power plant controller. This is not optional. Without a power plant controller, your project will not pass in...
- [Announcing Intellect PPC: WATTMORE's Power Plant Controller Is Here](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/announcing-intellect-ppc-power-plant-controller): WATTMORE is launching Intellect PPC: our Power Plant Controller: as the newest product in the Intellect platform. Every utility scale battery energy storage system connected to the grid needs a PPC. I...
- [Consolidated Data, Trusted Results: How WATTMORE Standardizes Energy Portfolio Monitoring](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/consolidated-data-trusted-results-wattmore-portfolio-monitoring): A 10 site energy portfolio with 10 different monitoring platforms is not a portfolio. It is a collection of disconnected projects with no unified operational intelligence. The moment you deploy your s...
- [Why WATTMORE Is the EMS and DAS Expert Your Energy Portfolio Needs](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-ems-das-expert-energy-portfolio): WATTMORE is an energy management system (EMS) and data acquisition system (DAS) company. That is what we do. We do not sell batteries. We do not install solar panels. We do not build substations. We b...
- [Intellect Operate: The Single Solution to Control, Monitor and Optimize Your Energy System](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/intellect-operate-single-solution-control-monitor-optimize): Energy storage operators should not need five platforms to run one battery system. They need one. WATTMORE's Intellect Operate is the single solution that controls your battery, monitors every compone...
- [What Is a Power Plant Controller? Why Every Storage Project Needs One](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/what-is-power-plant-controller-storage-projects): Every grid connected energy storage and solar facility needs a power plant controller (PPC). It is not optional. Your interconnection agreement requires it. Your utility demands it. And if your PPC fa...
- [Your Storage EMS Is a SCADA and Power Plant Controller: Here Is Why That Matters](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/storage-ems-scada-power-plant-controller): The energy storage industry has spent years separating SCADA, EMS, and power plant controller (PPC) functions into different vendor buckets. Developers end up with three contracts, three integrations,...
- [The Future of Energy Storage: Trends Shaping the Industry](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/future-of-energy-storage-trends-shaping-industry): Battery storage has moved from niche to grid infrastructure, and the next phase is taking shape: pack prices falling, durations stretching, AI running operations, fleets aggregating into virtual power plants, and software becoming the differentiator between identical batteries. Here are the trends with the numbers behind them.
- [How Microgrids Work: Components, Benefits, and Use Cases](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/how-microgrids-work-components-benefits-use-cases): A microgrid is a local energy system that can run connected to the grid or islanded from it, with generation, storage, and loads coordinated by a controller. This guide covers the components, how islanding actually works, why the battery and its EMS are the enabling pieces, and the use cases where microgrids earn their keep.
- [Revenue Stacking for Battery Storage: Maximizing Your Investment](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/revenue-stacking-battery-storage-maximizing-investment): No single value stream usually justifies a battery on its own; stacked together, the same asset can pay. This guide explains the main revenue streams for battery storage, why they compete for the same energy, how a storage EMS jointly optimizes them, and how market rules like FERC Order 2222 keep widening the menu.
- [Energy Storage Financial Modeling: Understanding ROI, NPV, and IRR](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/energy-storage-financial-modeling-roi-npv-irr): A credible financial model is what turns a battery project into a financeable investment. This guide explains ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback for energy storage, the revenue and cost inputs that belong in the model, the pitfalls that quietly inflate projections, and why models built on real dispatch algorithms hold up.
- [How to Size a Battery Storage System: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/how-to-size-battery-storage-system): An undersized battery leaves revenue on the table; an oversized one wastes capital. This step by step guide covers the data you need, how the tariff and use case drive the power and energy ratings, how to model the economics honestly, and why sizing with real dispatch algorithms beats simplified models.
- [How Weather Data Acquisition Improves Solar and Storage Performance](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/weather-data-acquisition-solar-storage-performance): Weather data is the reference against which solar performance is judged and the raw material of every forecast a storage system uses. This guide covers the parameters that matter, the sensor standards worth specifying, and how weather data flows into both performance verification and battery dispatch.
- [Solar Monitoring Best Practices for Asset Owners and Operators](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/solar-monitoring-best-practices-asset-owners): Effective monitoring is the difference between a portfolio that performs and one that silently loses energy year after year. These eight practices, from data granularity and irradiance based verification to tiered alarming and degradation tracking, are how experienced solar operators keep plants honest.
- [What Is a Solar Energy Management System? Benefits and Key Features](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/what-is-solar-energy-management-system): A solar energy management system is the software layer that monitors, analyzes, and optimizes solar generation, from string level data to portfolio analytics. This guide explains what a solar EMS does, how performance verification works, what separates it from free inverter portals, and why the difference shows up in energy and revenue.
- [Peak Shaving with Battery Storage: How It Works and Why It Matters](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/peak-shaving-battery-storage-how-it-works): Demand charges are set by a single fifteen minute peak each month, which makes them a natural target for a fast battery. This guide explains how peak shaving with battery storage works, what drives the savings, why forecasting decides success, and what the results look like on a live industrial site.
- [Storage EMS vs. SCADA: What's the Difference?](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/storage-ems-vs-scada-difference): In energy storage, "storage EMS" and "SCADA" are sometimes used interchangeably, but they are different systems with different jobs. SCADA supervises equipment and records data; a storage EMS decides what the battery should do and does it. This guide explains the difference, where the two overlap, and when a project needs both.
- [What Is a Battery Energy Management System? A Complete Guide](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/what-is-battery-energy-management-system): A battery energy management system (battery EMS) is the software that decides when a battery charges, when it discharges, and how it takes part in energy markets. This guide explains how it works, what it controls, how it differs from a BMS and SCADA, and why it is the largest single driver of project revenue.
- [How to Choose the Best Storage EMS for Your Energy Storage Project](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/how-to-choose-best-storage-ems): The storage EMS controls every dispatch decision for the life of a battery asset, which makes choosing one a bigger economic decision than most hardware line items. This guide walks through the six criteria that separate a real EMS from a monitoring portal, the mistakes buyers repeat, and the questions that expose the difference.
- [Energy Tech Company WATTMORE Launches New Intellect EnFORM Solar Monitoring Product](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/energy-tech-company-wattmore-launches-new-intellect-enform-solar-monitoring-product): AI-Powered EnFORM seamlessly couples with WATTMORE's Energy Management System Intellect OPERATE, delivering a turnkey solution to project investors and developers.DENVER, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --...
- [Update: Lincoln Electric Battery Project Under Construction!](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/update-lincoln-electric-battery-project-under-construction): LINCON ELECTRIS 13.8MWH project underway
- [Logan City Light & Power, WATTMORE and Eos to Energize the Municipal Utility’s First Battery Energy Storage System](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/logan-city-light-power-wattmore-and-eos-to-energize-the-municipal-utility-s-first-battery-energy-storage-system): Logan, UT (November 14, 2024)–  Logan City Light & Power, the electric utility for the City of Logan, Utah, and WATTMORE, an energy storage software and service provider, announced today the...
- [WATTMORE’S patented Intellect Operate EMS to control and monitor 3MW Energy Storage Project for Lincoln Electric System](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-s-patented-intellect-operate-ems-to-control-and-monitor-3mw-energy-storage-project-for-lincoln-electric-system): LINCOLN, Neb. (October 24, 2024) Bridge Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BRDG) (“Bridge”) and WATTMORE, an energy storage energy management system (“EMS”)...
- [Wattmore Featured on Impact Podcast](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-featured-on-impact-podcast): WATTMORE is an energy storage software company providing battery sizing, economic outcome forecasts, battery charging and discharging, and more.JW is a serial founder and clean power executive (Becaus...
- [WATTMORE Earns US Patent](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-earns-us-patent): WATTMORE Earns US Patent for Flexible Energy Management Software for Energy Storage DENVER (September 11, 2024) - WATTMORE, the Denver-based battery storage energy management software firm, annou...
- [Rincon Reservation Partnership with Wattmore](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/rincon-reservation-partnership-with-wattmore): August 06, 2024 08:15 AM Eastern Daylight TimeSAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bridge Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BRDG) (“Bridge”), Solaris Energy and WAT...
- [Successful Patent Application Filed](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/successful-patent-application-filed): "WattCore" represents a significant leap forward in energy management technology.Exciting News! WATTMORE, the Denver-based climate tech company, has just filed a patent for a groundbreaking innovation...
- [WATTMORE and Urban Electric Power selected to join Newlab’s Resilient Energy Studio, will team up to bring energy storage solutions to NYC.](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/wattmore-and-urban-electric-power-selected-to-join-newlab-s-resilient-energy-studio-will-team-up-to-bring-energy-storage-solutions-to-nyc): Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 1 — WATTMORE, a climate tech start-up building an adaptive Energy Management Software platform for managing and operating the coming wave of scalable energy storage projects,...
- [WATT’s in a name?](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/watt-s-in-a-name): Truth be told, I love being part of a team. I proudly sport gear and hats for my kids’ colleges, youth sports teams and my local basketball team (Go ‘Gate, UVA and East High School).  At my...
- [NIKOLA POWER CORP. Closes Series A Financing, Bringing Game-Changing AI Energy Management Software to Fruition.](https://www.wattmore.com/blog/nikola-power-corp-closes-series-a-financing-bringing-game-changing-ai-energy-management-software-to-fruition): Led by Arosa Capital with MaSa Partners, Pine Gate Renewables, Crosstimbers Ventures & Off Ramp Technologies. Denver, CO - Nikola Power, the Denver-based climate tech software firm, is thrill...

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