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The companies that define the energy industry, each read on the same nine-check website rubric — a 0–100 score with the exact fixes — alongside the concepts, the developments and the questions that shape the field.
24 companies in the energy industry, each graded on the nine things that decide whether a buyer or an AI assistant can find and trust them online. Open any name for the full write-up and the specific fixes.
| Company | HQ / region | Site score |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora Solaraurorasolar.com | San Francisco, CA (global) | 100 0 to fix |
| AVEVA PI System (formerly OSIsoft)www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system | Cambridge, UK (global) | 100 0 to fix |
| Base Powerwww.basepowercompany.com | Austin, TX (Texas) | 100 0 to fix |
| Sunrunwww.sunrun.com | San Francisco, CA (US) | 100 0 to fix |
| NextEra Energywww.nexteraenergy.com | Juno Beach, FL (US) | 92 1 to fix |
| SLB (Schlumberger)www.slb.com | Houston, TX (global) | 92 1 to fix |
| Baker Hugheswww.bakerhughes.com | Houston, TX (global) | 84 2 to fix |
| Kinder Morganwww.kindermorgan.com | Houston, TX (North America) | 84 2 to fix |
| Halliburtonwww.halliburton.com | Houston, TX (global) | 82 2 to fix |
| ExxonMobilcorporate.exxonmobil.com | Spring, TX (global) | 80 2 to fix |
| Pioneer Natural Resources (now ExxonMobil)corporate.exxonmobil.com | Irving, TX (Permian Basin) | 80 2 to fix |
| ConocoPhillipswww.conocophillips.com | Houston, TX (global) | 72 3 to fix |
| AspenTechwww.aspentech.com | Bedford, MA (global) | 70 3 to fix |
| Quorum Softwarewww.quorumsoftware.com | Houston, TX (global) | 70 3 to fix |
| Enbridgewww.enbridge.com | Calgary, AB (North America) | 62 4 to fix |
| First Solarwww.firstsolar.com | Tempe, AZ (US, India, Malaysia, Vietnam) | 62 4 to fix |
| Enphase Enlightenenlighten.enphaseenergy.com | Fremont, CA (global) | 59 4 to fix |
| Vistrawww.vistracorp.com | Irving, TX (US) | 55 4 to fix |
| Energy Transferwww.energytransfer.com | Dallas, TX (US) | 54 5 to fix |
| NRG Energywww.nrg.com | Houston, TX (US, Canada) | 50 5 to fix |
| Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)www.oxy.com | Houston, TX (US, MENA) | 50 5 to fix |
| EOG Resourceswww.eogresources.com | Houston, TX (US, Trinidad) | 42 6 to fix |
| AutoGridwww.auto-grid.com | Redwood City, CA (global) | 35 6 to fix |
| Form Energyformenergy.com | Somerville, MA (US) | 27 7 to fix |
70+ solid 45–69 gaps under 45 costing customers
11 businesses whose website blocked our scanner — common when a site filters datacenter traffic, and not a sign the site is broken. A blocked site is never scored zero.
The firms, funds and institutions that set the terms in energy — context, not local listings; never scored.
The successor to AWEA, now covering wind, utility-scale solar, storage, transmission and clean hydrogen. Publishes the Clean Power Quarterly market reports and state fact sheets, and is the primary industry voice on interconnection and permitting reform.
Process simulation, planning and scheduling, and asset performance management software used across refining, chemicals, upstream and increasingly grid and renewables operations. The de facto standard modeling stack in downstream and midstream engineering.
Remote solar design, shading analysis, production simulation and proposal generation used by residential and commercial installers to sell and engineer systems without a site visit. One of the two platforms most installer sales processes are built around.
The City of Austin's municipally owned electric utility, serving the Austin metro outside the competitive retail market. Sets local solar rebates, the Value of Solar tariff, interconnection requirements and demand-response programs — the operative rulebook for any solar or storage installer working in Austin.
Distributed energy resource management and virtual power plant software that forecasts, optimizes and dispatches fleets of batteries, EV chargers, thermostats and flexible loads for utilities and aggregators. One of the original DERMS platforms and a common backbone for VPP programs.
The dominant real-time operational data historian in power generation, transmission, oil and gas and process industries — the system that collects, stores and contextualizes sensor and SCADA data. If an energy analytics product integrates with anything, it integrates with PI first.
Combines oilfield services and equipment with an industrial energy technology segment covering gas turbines, compressors, LNG equipment and emissions-measurement technology. The most diversified of the majors' service suppliers, and a serious player in methane monitoring hardware.
Austin startup selling home battery backup bundled with a retail electricity plan at low upfront cost, then aggregating the installed fleet as a dispatchable grid resource in ERCOT. A clear example of the distributed-battery-as-grid-asset business model native to the Texas market.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's electricity markets group, publisher of the Queued Up interconnection-queue analyses, Tracking the Sun, the Utility-Scale Solar and Land-Based Wind Market Reports and PPA price series — all free. Included in place of NREL, whose nrel.gov domain returned no DNS A record at build time.
Research house whose levelized-cost, battery-price survey, energy-transition-investment and storage-outlook figures are the most widely quoted commercial benchmarks in clean energy. Its annual lithium-ion pack price survey is the reference series for battery cost claims.
The state geological survey of Texas, housed at the University of Texas at Austin, with research programs in unconventional reservoirs, carbon storage, induced seismicity and water. The neutral technical authority a Texas energy claim can be anchored to.
Integrated major with a large Permian position, global upstream portfolio, refining and marketing, and a new-energies arm covering renewable fuels, hydrogen and carbon capture. Relocated its headquarters from California to Houston, consolidating the US majors in Texas.
The largest pure-play independent exploration and production company, with Lower 48 unconventional assets, Alaska, Canada and international LNG-linked positions. Sets the reference point for capital discipline and shareholder-return framing across the E&P sector.
Midland-headquartered pure-play Permian operator known for low cost structure and aggressive consolidation of adjacent acreage, with affiliated midstream and mineral-royalty vehicles. The benchmark independent for Permian operating efficiency.
The official US source for energy production, consumption, capacity, price and forecast data — Electric Power Monthly, the Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Annual Energy Outlook, Today in Energy and the state profiles. Any market claim in a US energy piece should trace back here first; it is the one citation no buyer disputes.
Operator of the largest crude oil pipeline network in North America plus major natural gas transmission and gas utility businesses and a renewable power arm. Its scale in long-haul liquids makes it the reference point for pipeline tariff and basis discussions.
Large diversified midstream partnership with natural gas, NGL, crude and refined products pipelines, fractionation at Mont Belvieu and export terminals, plus a proposed Gulf Coast LNG project. Dallas-headquartered and heavily weighted to Texas assets.
Maker of module-level microinverters, IQ batteries, EV chargers and the Enlighten monitoring platform, sold almost entirely through an installer channel. Defined the module-level power electronics category and competes head-on with string-inverter architectures.
The monitoring and fleet-management platform behind Enphase microinverters and IQ batteries, giving homeowners per-module production data and installers remote diagnostics and warranty visibility across their installed base. The stickiest part of the Enphase ecosystem.
Austin-headquartered energy SaaS and data company covering upstream land, well and production data, trading and risk, power and renewables analytics and ESG reporting — built from the former DrillingInfo. The most widely used commercial dataset for US oil and gas, and increasingly for power markets.
Large independent producer across the Permian, Eagle Ford, Powder River and other plays, long regarded as the technical leader in shale completion design and premium-return well screening. Its in-house data and completion methods are widely imitated across the sector.
The independent system operator for roughly 90% of Texas load, running the nodal market, the interconnection queue and the seasonal resource adequacy assessments, with headquarters in Taylor northeast of Austin. Its dashboards, market notices and long-term load forecasts are the primary source for anything about the Texas grid.
The largest US integrated major, spanning upstream production, refining, chemicals and a low-carbon solutions arm covering carbon capture, hydrogen and lithium. Its acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources made it the dominant Permian acreage holder and set the template for the consolidation wave that followed.
Regulates interstate electricity transmission and wholesale sales, interstate natural gas pipelines and LNG terminals, and hydropower licensing. Its interconnection and transmission-planning orders set the rules most of the country follows — though ERCOT's intrastate isolation limits its direct reach in Texas. Site returns 403 to scripted traffic; listed unverified.
How the only major US grid that is essentially an island actually works — nodal pricing, the absence of a capacity market, scarcity pricing and ORDC, the seasonal assessments, and why a Texas load or generator faces economics no other region does. The highest-intent pillar for any Texas energy buyer.
Site control, resource assessment, interconnection, tracker vs fixed-tilt, module and inverter selection, EPC contracting, and the economics that decide whether a project reaches FID. Includes solar-plus-storage hybrids, which now dominate new Texas queue entries.
Onshore wind siting and capacity factor, the CREZ transmission legacy that made West Texas wind possible, repowering older fleets with longer blades and better controls, and the separate offshore permitting and supply chain. Wind is a mature asset class sold on O&M and life extension more than new build.
Project development, revenue stacking across energy arbitrage and ancillary services, four-hour vs longer duration, augmentation and warranty terms, safety and fire codes, and interconnection as a standalone or co-located resource. Texas is the fastest-growing BESS market in the country.
Exploration, leasing, drilling and completion, reservoir and decline analysis, and operating economics across the Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Bakken. Content here serves operators, non-op working-interest owners, mineral and royalty owners and the service firms selling into them.
Gathering, processing, fractionation, long-haul transmission, storage and export. Take-or-pay contracting, tariff structures, basis differentials between hubs, and the Gulf Coast LNG buildout that increasingly sets the marginal price of US natural gas.
Rigs, pressure pumping, wireline, coiled tubing, artificial lift, chemicals and equipment rental. A brutally cyclical, relationship-driven market where day rates, frac spread counts and rig counts are the leading indicators every buyer watches.
Regulated utilities, municipal and cooperative utilities, and — in deregulated Texas — retail electricity providers competing on plan structure. Rate cases, tariffs, time-of-use and demand charges, and the transmission and distribution charges every Texas bill carries regardless of who sells the electrons.
Queue reform, study phases, network upgrade cost allocation, and the transmission and siting bottlenecks that now decide project timelines more than technology or capital does. The single most common reason a good project dies.
The federal credit stack (ITC, PTC, 45X, domestic content and energy-community adders), transferability and tax-equity structures, state-level programs, and the policy uncertainty that makes safe-harbor timing a board-level question.
PPAs, virtual PPAs, retail contracts, block-and-index structures, hedging, basis risk, and 24/7 carbon-free matching. Written for the CFO and procurement side of a commercial or industrial buyer, not for a developer.
How AI and hyperscale computing changed the load forecast, what a large-load interconnection request actually involves, controllable-load commitments, behind-the-meter and bring-your-own-generation options, and the cost-allocation fight over who pays for the grid they need.
Programs that pay load and distributed assets to move or shed — ERS and RRS in ERCOT, commercial curtailment programs, aggregated residential batteries and smart thermostats, and the metering, telemetry and aggregation rules that make them qualify.
The homeowner-facing channel — sizing, proposal and design tools, net metering and buyback plan economics, financing and lease vs loan vs cash, permitting and utility interconnection, and battery backup for outage resilience. Highest-volume, lowest-ticket segment in the vertical.
Existing nuclear fleet uprates and life extension, small modular reactors, advanced geothermal, and the renewed interest in firm, dispatchable, low-carbon generation driven directly by data-center power demand and resource-adequacy anxiety.
Land and lease management, production accounting, reserves and economics, SCADA and historians, grid analytics and forecasting, solar design and proposal tools, and DER management platforms. The layer where an energy marketing engine has the most technical buyers reading.
an energy-only market on its own interconnection with limited ties to neighbours; explain that no capacity payment is the design choice behind most Texas reliability debates
prices set at thousands of settlement points reflecting energy, losses and congestion; explain why the same megawatt is worth different amounts in different places
describe the reserve products ERCOT procures to keep frequency, and that batteries compete directly for them
explain the study stages and be blunt that queue volume is a demand signal, not a forecast — most of what is in it will never be built
physical delivery versus a financial contract for difference plus certificates; explain the accounting and basis consequences of each
the gap between the settlement point where the project earns and the hub where the contract prices; use West Texas congestion as the concrete example
actual output over nameplate over time; explain that it is a resource and site characteristic, not a quality score
define it and then name the omissions that matter — timing of output, firming, transmission and integration cost
distinguish economic from congestion and reliability curtailment, and explain how PPA structures allocate the loss
explain duration as a revenue and market-product choice, and that longer durations are appearing as ancillary revenue compresses
aggregated distributed batteries, thermostats and generators dispatched as one resource; explain who signs the homeowner and who gets paid
weatherization standards, inspections and penalties for generators, with slower progress on the gas supply chain that failed alongside the power fleet
developers can sell credits for cash instead of assembling tax equity, which brought in corporate buyers who were never in this market; cite the IRS elective pay and transferability guidance
who pays costs and who only receives revenue; explain how that difference shows up on a check stub and a tax return
explain the study sequence and that network upgrades and equipment lead times set the date; give the stages, never a duration
explain that costs are discovered late in the study process and are assigned to the interconnecting party, which is why withdrawal rates are high
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