Hover Energy, a leader in renewable energy innovation, has won three awards in the 2025 Power Technology Excellence Awards, for Innovation, Research and Development, and Business Expansion, for its leadership in advancing microgrid technology. The recognition reflects the company’s progress in autonomous energy management, intelligent microgrid deployment, and collaborative microgrid networks.
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Hover Energy won the Innovation award for developing autonomous energy management solutions that enhance efficiency and adaptability. Its strategic growth and deployment of intelligent microgrids across new markets earned it the Business Expansion award. Additionally, Hover’s pioneering research into collaborative microgrid networks was honored with the Research & Development award, reflecting its commitment to driving the future of distributed energy systems.
Autonomous energy management: Advancing microgrid intelligence
Hover Energy’s Innovation award is attributed to its introduction of autonomous, software-based AI Agents across its Wind-Powered Microgrid™ installations. Hover’s industry leading Microgrid Management SystemTM introduces these agents through its partnership with IBM. These agents function as digital site managers, continuously monitoring local energy flows, forecasting demand, and autonomously coordinating energy distribution both within individual sites and across multiple locations.
What sets Hover’s approach apart is the transformation of traditional microgrids—typically managed through static, rule-based logic and requiring significant human oversight—into adaptive, self-managing systems. The AI Agents are designed to not only match production and consumption at a single site but also to optimize energy flows between sites in real time. This enables a level of operational flexibility and responsiveness that is not achievable with conventional microgrid management systems.
A distinguishing aspect of Hover’s solution is the integration of AI-driven asset management with IBM’s Maximo® Application Suite. The partnership has resulted in a unique operating layer that combines asset health monitoring, predictive analytics, and fleetwide optimization. The AI overlays developed specifically for energy coordination allow each microgrid to learn from the performance data of the entire network, resulting in continuous improvement and smarter energy management across all sites.
For example, if a microgrid in London is experiencing lower-than-expected wind generation, the AI Agents can autonomously coordinate with another site within the network locally, where there is surplus renewable energy, dynamically redirecting power to where it is needed most. This ‘cross-site power’ trading and optimization minimizes energy waste and maximizes the use of renewable resources, ensuring that excess power is not curtailed or lost. Of course, there are some jurisdictions where this is not yet allowable, but that is changing around the world, and Hover is at the forefront of how those changes can benefit our communities. This is literally rebuilding the grid, from the ground up.
Hover’s system also supports the blending of multiple energy sources, such as wind, solar, and storage, and facilitates dynamic, AI-coordinated power trading between geographically dispersed sites. The technology is currently being piloted in London, with coordinated deployments planned for new projects in the United States, beginning with Hawaii. The company’s roadmap for global deployment demonstrates both the scalability and the innovative edge of its autonomous energy management platform.
Intelligent microgrid deployment: Strategic growth and market expansion
Hover Energy’s recognition for Business Expansion in the Intelligent Microgrid Deployment category reflects its strategic growth in intelligent microgrid deployment, underpinned by a combination of technology leadership, market entry, and partnership development.
A key driver of Hover’s expansion has been its ability to leverage high-profile partnerships to accelerate the rollout of intelligent microgrids on a global scale. The company’s deepened collaboration with IBM has enabled the co-development of the Hover Microgrid Management System™ and the deployment of AI Agents that automate and optimize every Hover site worldwide. This partnership, alongside Hover’s already close relationship with Siemens worldwide, ensures that Hover’s technology stack remains at the forefront of digital energy management for microgrid growth.
In addition, Hover has established significant relationships with utilities and municipalities, which are critical for enabling surplus power export from microgrid sites to nearby consumers. These collaborations not only unlock new regulatory and commercial opportunities but also allow Hover to move beyond the traditional microgrid business model, which typically focuses on onsite energy management alone. By facilitating the export of excess clean energy to third parties, Hover is creating new revenue streams and transforming each microgrid installation into a self-optimizing, revenue-generating energy hub. As a confirmed vendor to SSE (Scottish & Southern Electric) in the UK, these new revenue generating opportunities are already taking shape in England.
The company’s recent partnership with E.On, signed in April 2025, has further enabled expansion into local communities and access to large-scale European energy markets. Through tailored clean energy solutions, Hover is able to address the specific requirements of different regional markets, adapting its technology and business model to local conditions.
The launch of the HE 4.4 model in Hawaii is a notable example of Hover’s product innovation. This new model incorporates advanced AI Agent capabilities that are specifically tailored to the unique energy landscape of Hawaii, where renewable integration and grid resilience are critical. The company’s projects now span three countries across North America and Europe, demonstrating robust international growth.
Hover’s partnership with Alternus Clean Energy in Ireland provides the capital and project finance structure necessary to scale projects across the UK, Europe, and emerging markets. The company’s business expansion strategy is not just about increasing its geographic footprint; it is about building a scalable and adaptive global energy ecosystem where each microgrid installation learns, shares, and evolves as part of a larger network.
Collaborative microgrid networks: Research and development in distributed energy sharing
Hover Energy has been recognized for its pioneering R&D work in collaborative microgrid networks, which represent the next frontier in distributed energy.
Traditional microgrids are often siloed, managing energy within a single site and lacking the ability to interact dynamically with neighboring systems. Hover’s R&D initiatives are focused on overcoming these limitations by enabling AI-enabled microgrids to export excess renewable power to neighboring buildings and communities. This approach effectively turns each site into a localized utility, capable of supporting broader community and industrial energy needs.
Hover’s multidisciplinary R&D team, comprising software engineers, electrical designers, and data scientists, has developed a multi-agent learning framework that leverages embedded machine learning. This framework allows each microgrid to adapt to localized weather, load, and production data, optimizing performance in real time. The AI Agents are capable of making predictive maintenance decisions and real-time energy-sharing choices across distributed sites, ensuring both operational resilience and efficiency.
To validate these capabilities, Hover has established testbed environments for AI-driven microgrid cooperation. For example, the upcoming field trial at a South Carolina facility will demonstrate how excess power can be exported as directed by the AI Agent, based on real-time analysis of production and demand patterns. These trials are designed to showcase the practical benefits and scalability of collaborative, intelligent microgrid networks.
The partnership with IBM has been instrumental in co-developing advanced AI overlays and system architecture, ensuring that Hover’s technology remains at the cutting edge of the industry. The central AI coordinator developed as part of this collaboration enables distributed systems to learn from each other, compounding optimization benefits at scale.
By focusing on collaborative microgrid networks, Hover is addressing the challenge of integrating distributed energy resources across entire communities and industrial clusters. These R&D efforts are laying the groundwork for a future where microgrids are not isolated assets but interconnected, intelligent participants in a broader, more resilient energy ecosystem.
Company Profile
Hover Energy is a leader in renewable energy innovation, specializing in microgrid integration and hybrid energy solutions. With proprietary technologies like the Wind-Powered Microgrid™ and Microgrid Management System™ (with IBM MAS®), Hover enables businesses to transition seamlessly to sustainable energy.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Hover serves industries including commercial and industrial sectors, while expanding internationally to drive the global shift toward renewable energy.
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