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Hawai‘i’s Shifted Energy Acquired by Resource Innovations to Scale Clean Energy Solutions
October 17, 2025

Fellows mentioned in this story:
Forest Frizzell
Olin Lagon

From Pacific Business News:

Honolulu-based clean-energy technology company Shifted Energy has been acquired by Resource Innovations, a utility software and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco, in an effort to scale clean energy and equity nationwide. 

Shifted Energy, co-founded in 2016 by Olin Lagon and Forest Frizzell, was created to ensure renters and underserved communities’ benefit from Hawai‘i’s transition to 100% clean energy by 2045. The company is known for its energy resource management system which serves mainly low-income, multi-family residential buildings, working directly with the property managers to enroll the entire building in the program which uses the Grid Maestro platform to help manage distributed energy resources and improve grid reliability through advanced forecasting, optimization and equity driven analytics.

"We're still developing the platform and finding customers for it. Now we just have this much broader end-to-end solution in partnering with Resource Innovations," Frizzell, co-founder and CEO of Shifted Energy said in an interview with Pacific Business News. Resource Innovations has almost 1,200 employees and 16 offices serving almost every state in the U.S., as well as Puerto Rico and Canada. "It's this really powerful fuel to what we've already done."

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