BoxPower: Designing and developing microgrids to accelerate the shift to a distributed, resilient, and intelligent grid.


BoxPower integrates utility-grade software, productized modular hardware, and turnkey delivery services to programmatically deploy safe, reliable, and scalable microgrids.
The American electricity grid is fragile and outdated. Electricity demand is rising at its fastest pace in a generation, driven by the power demand from data centers, electrification, and industrial reshoring. But the grid was built in an era of centralized, one-way generation. It can’t scale fast enough to keep up. Billion-dollar, extreme weather events hit more than five times as often as they did in the 1980s. Wildfires, which caused over $100 billion in damages in the January 2025 LA fires alone, are accelerating and extending well beyond the West Coast.
With the cost of solar and battery storage each falling 90% since 2010, microgrids have gone from expensive remote backup power to cost-competitive alternatives to traditional grid infrastructure. BoxPower is building the platform to deploy them at scale. By deploying standardized power systems in the field for more than a decade, BoxPower has turned microgrids from one-off engineering projects into repeatable infrastructure. They’ve proven it with the most demanding utility customers in the country, and scaled into a fast-growing market.
Q & A with BoxPower
- What motivated you to create your company?
The National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency initially funded the development of BoxPower’s containerized microgrid technology as a Princeton University Research Project in 2011. After a series of grant-funded pilot projects, BoxPower moved to commercialize, incorporating in 2016. BoxPower is a venture-backed company headquartered in Grass Valley, California. BoxPower first focused on rapidly deploying microgrids for disaster relief in the Caribbean and has since expanded to providing affordable energy resilience in the United States for investor-owned utility customers, indigenous communities, critical facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, and EV chargers. As an impact-driven company, BoxPower's 45+ solar and storage deployments are improving over 4,300 lives and offsetting over 45.5 million pounds of CO2.
- Why did you choose to partner with Valo?
Strategic value, industry knowledge, and value alignment.