The grid was engineered for a simpler world: power flows one way, from utility to home, and homes consume. That world is ending. Homes are becoming energy producers, battery systems, EV charging hubs, and active participants in a grid that wasn't built to handle them. Emporia was founded to make that transition work for every homeowner.
See Our Platform40 to 80 amp EV chargers are the largest new load ever added to the residential grid. Millions of homes now need intelligent charging management.
Home batteries, EVs, and intelligent devices are transforming homes from passive consumers into active participants in the grid. But without coordination, the value is lost.
AI data centers, electrification, and new devices are pushing grid demand to historic levels, driving up costs and instability.
Electricity flows one way: utility → home. Homes consume. Grid controls.
Solar panels, home batteries, EVs, and smart appliances transform homes into energy actors, not just consumers.
AI, electrification, and EV adoption are accelerating demand. The original grid architecture cannot handle millions of intelligent energy devices operating simultaneously.
Emporia was founded in 2018 on a single insight: give homeowners circuit-level visibility into their energy, and everything else follows. Home energy had operated the same way for generations; technology had transformed every other part of modern life. The Emporia team built the first product to close that gap: real visibility into how a home uses energy, at a price point that made it a no-brainer for any homeowner.
A small team sets out to make home energy monitoring affordable and accessible for the first time.
Circuit-level monitoring at a price point anyone can justify. The intelligence layer for the home, before anyone called it that.
As EVs and home batteries moved mainstream, Emporia built the chargers and integrations to manage them, connecting devices that had never spoken to each other.
The monitoring foundation has become an energy operating system, with utility integrations, automated optimization, and a growing virtual power plant connecting homes to the grid.
The future grid isn't a bigger version of the one we have. It's distributed, intelligent, and decentralized, with homes as active participants rather than passive consumers. Homes will generate power, store it, shift when they use it, and support the grid at peak moments. That's not a hypothesis. It's already happening.
Intelligent automation handles energy decisions automatically, shifting loads, optimizing charging, and responding to price signals without any manual action.
When homes coordinate intelligently, they become a virtual power plant, collectively reducing peak demand, stabilizing the grid, and replacing the need for expensive new infrastructure.
A decentralized energy network built on millions of intelligent homes is far more resilient than any single point of failure, and far more affordable to build.
Emporia doesn't make devices. We build the intelligence that connects them: circuit-level visibility, real-time optimization, and a two-way data layer that turns each home into an active grid asset.
Every product Emporia ships is a layer of the intelligent home energy stack, and each one connects homes more deeply to the grid of the future.
Circuit-level visibility into every load in your home, in real time, at a price point anyone can justify. The intelligence layer the platform is built on.
Future impact: Data-driven automation. The home can only optimize what it can see. Vue is the sensor network that makes everything else possible.
Level 2 charging with load balancing, time-of-use scheduling, and utility program integration, so your EV charges when electricity is cheapest and cleanest.
Future impact: Demand flexibility at scale. EV chargers are the largest new residential load. Managing them intelligently is central to grid stability and homeowner savings.
Utility integrations that let Emporia homes participate in demand response and grid services programs, automatically, without the homeowner lifting a finger.
Future impact: The distributed grid in action. Today's VPP program is the proof of concept for a grid where millions of intelligent homes collectively replace peaker plants.
To make home energy simple, affordable, and automatic for every homeowner. Energy shouldn't require an engineering degree. Emporia gives every homeowner, regardless of their technical comfort level, the tools to understand, control, and optimize the energy flowing through their home. And we do it at a price point that makes it a no-brainer, not a luxury.
To become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant in the nation. A virtual power plant is what happens when enough homes, each with smart hardware and a shared platform, can respond to the grid together. The homeowners making it possible benefit from it directly: lower energy bills, smarter EV charging, and automation that runs in the background without them having to think about it.
We deliver exceptional service with empathy and responsiveness, building lasting trust in every interaction.
We think like owners, taking responsibility for results and holding ourselves and each other accountable.
We succeed through honesty, humility, and humanity.
We work hard, stay passionate, and persevere through challenges.
We challenge the status quo, take smart risks, and aim to improve 1% every day.
We're a lean team of engineers, designers, and energy specialists based in Boulder, Colorado, working on one of the most consequential infrastructure challenges of our generation. If that sounds like your kind of problem, we'd love to talk.