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Octopus Energy Takes Majority Stake in Uplight to Accelerate Customer-Driven Grid Reliability and Affordability
Strategic backing advances Uplight’s Demand Stack strategy which leverages customer participation to deliver predictable, utility-scale flexibility as grid constraints intensifyBOULDER, Colo., March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Uplight, a clean energy technology company that unlocks grid capacity by activating customers and their devices to generate, shift, and save energy, today announced Octopus Energy Group, a global energy and technology group, and longstanding investor Schneider Electric, a
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