CURRENT Group
Germantown, Md.
Energy efficiency
CEO: Tom Casey, 56
CURRENT provides utility companies with high-speed communications and sensing and analytic software that allows them to manage their grids in real time. Better management yields environmental benefits, too, because electric power generation produces 40% of global carbon-dioxide emissions. CURRENT, founded in 2000, started by offering broadband access via electric lines. It has raised some $300 million from blue chip investors including Google and Goldman Sachs.
