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Who we are

We’re a team of energy industry pioneers, leading the way with the world’s most agile virtual power plant. Combining the strengths of aggregation, virtual power plant functionality and energy market access, we reduce the number of parties involved in managing your energy storage assets, so that you receive the maximum share of revenues.

The Social Energy Team

  • Dr Stephen Day
    Dr Stephen Day Director

    Steve has been working on innovative energy solutions for over 20 ye...

    Steve has been working on innovative energy solutions for over 20 years. Forging a successful career rising through the ranks with leading photovoltaics manufacturers, his experience has paved the way for Social Energy’s current position in the renewables and demand response market, co-founding our Levelise team.He continues to drive change as a thought leader in renewable energy across various markets.

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  • Joshua Robson-Hemmings
    Joshua Robson-Hemmings Chief Engineer

    Another Social Energy Levelise co-founder, with a background in rese...

    Another Social Energy Levelise co-founder, with a background in research and design, Josh is renowned for his knowledge of energy storage hardware. Specifically, Josh is responsible for designing and implementing control strategies and algorithms for energy storage systems connected to the Social Energy virtual power plant.

    It’s with his expertise that we’re able to continuously scale at pace, forging powerful partnerships with leading battery manufacturers.

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  • Dr Matthias Kauer
    Dr Matthias Kauer Director

    Matthias is a founder-director of the Levelise team at Social Energy, with focus on business operati...

    Matthias is a founder-director of the Levelise team at Social Energy, with focus on business operations. He has 20 years industrial R&D experience in the telecoms and energy sectors, building and managing high-performance technology development organisations.

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Follow our journey

  • 2015

    Green entrepreneurs Ryan Gill and Julian Wiley founded Social Energy, as a means of lowering global carbon emissions.

  • 2016

    Levelise joined Social Energy, forming a unique vertically integrated hardware, energy and virtual power plant solution.

  • 2018

    We received approval from the National Grid ESO for the delivery of firm frequency response (FFR).

  • 2019

    Our eco-friendly solutions expanded and we became a dual fuel (electricity and gas) energy supplier.

  • 2020

    The team won our first local constraint zone management contract, providing additional value from local assets.

  • 2020

    We secured our first FFR contract from a fully residential fleet of assets.

  • 2020

    Commercially launched in the Australian market to deliver a virtual power plant for the FCAS frequency response service.

  • 2021

    Social Energy launched operational development for commercial energy storage systems.

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