About

Krevat Energy Innovations is dedicated to the worldwide challenge of keeping the earth’s climate human-friendly by advising start-ups, utilities, regulators, legislatures, and environmentally-focused companies and communities. Our goal is to help bring ClimateTech solutions successfully to market by strategizing, evangelizing, and connecting stakeholders.

Job creation, improved health, and minimizing severe weather events could be motivation to create the momentum necessary to adopt a low-carbon future, but better technology at a lower cost and the sacrifices by entrepreneurs and visionaries will be the catalyst for change.

Bold leadership and committed teams across the globe share a mission to create and deploy transformational technology. Krevat Energy Innovations leverages strengths in strategy, innovation, communication, and deep stakeholder networks across the energy, IT, and transportation ecosystem to help achieve these goals.

Our vision is an earth that is Ivory Soap Clean: 99.44% carbon-free.

Lee Krevat, CEO

Lee founded Krevat Energy Innovations to follow his passion to help mitigate climate change. He currently advises over a dozen ClimateTech startup companies and hosts The Climate Champions podcast.

Lee has four decades of experience in the energy and technology industries. While working at San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, he founded and served as director of smart grid and led SDG&E’s smart grid and electric vehicle initiatives, evangelizing Grid Modernization and Electric Vehicle grid integration. Lee was twice named one of the top 100 movers and shakers influencing the smart grid market by GreenTech Media and twice recognized as a Top 12 Utility Mover and Shaker and Utility Champion by Intelligent Utility Magazine.

Prior to founding Krevat Energy Innovations, Lee was director for PXiSE Energy Solutions, evangelizing a high-speed advanced grid control technology. Lee connected PXiSE to thought leaders throughout the energy ecosystem, resulting directly in PXiSE’s first 100% renewable microgrid, first 100% renewable campus microgrid, first utility control sale, and first Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) system.

Previously, Lee was director of new ventures for Sempra Renewables. He was responsible for leading the development of distributed energy solutions including solar, load optimization, bio-methane, electric vehicle charging, energy blockchain, and microgrids. Lee successfully closed investments in Sempra’s first distributed energy resources play, an exciting distributed solar company, Sol Systems, and as the sole US founding member in the Energy Web Foundation.

Lee is a champion for sustainability on a national level. He’s been a member and/or served on the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance since 2011, where he led the development of the GridWise Alliance Grid Modernization Index (GMI). The GMI has been used since 2013 to evaluate the status of electric grid modernization in the United States, to identify and promote best practices, and to provide insights to state policymakers, regulators, and other stakeholders regarding the progress of their grid modernization.

Before joining the Sempra Energy family of companies, Lee led several software development teams at Tandem Computers and was a partner at TransPac Software, a startup in Silicon Valley. He received a bachelor’s degree with university honors in applied mathematics/computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Most weekends he performs in improv and musical improv comedy shows.

Affiliates

Board Member since 2020, Advisor since 2015

PI Energy is the future of clean energy: affordable solar energy with the flexibility to provide power just about anywhere, enabling solar energy that is low-cost, non-toxic, and globally scalable, with the potential to accelerate developing regions into sustainable modernity, creating a positive impact for billions of people.

Latest News: Mike Allman was hired as CEO and David Keogh as Technical Advisor.

In December 2023, our technical evaluation of the quality of our solar photovoltaic (PV) materials indicated that our semiconductor materials are performing significantly better than anticipated, boosting our confidence that our solar modules will be more competitive than previously projected.

Advisory Board Member since 2019

Artificial Intelligence for Smart Electric Vehicle Fleet Management and Charging.

Latest News: California Energy Commission approves a $3.3-million grant to MOEV Inc. to demonstrate an artificial intelligence-based fleet charging management system with DERs including electric transit buses, charging stations, a battery energy storage system, and solar PV

Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer, est. 2020

Connect California’s mission is to enable electric customers to leverage energy assets they already have to provide safe, clean, and inexpensive resiliency.

The ConnectDER Solar Meter Socket Adapter (MSA) and EV MSA have been certified. The Solar MSA is generally available. The EV MSA is being shipped to select customers.

Advisory Board Member since 2020

UCAP Power™ is an exciting new startup that provides ultracapacitor-based solutions across a wide range of renewable markets.

Ultracapacitor systems use sustainable based products offering a long-lasting source of reliable power storage that can eliminate lead-acid or other hazardous batteries.

With our UP™ line of products, we are starting a power revolution.

Latest News: UCAP Power, Inc. Announces follow on Investment from Nabors Industries bringing Nabors total strategic investment in UCAP to $3.5 million.

Co-founder, Advisory Board Member, est. 2020

Trianon Renewable Grid Stability, LLC (Trianon Grid) is a technology commercialization and marketing firm whose product is a revolutionary control software that enhances the performance of power inverters, enabling solar and other renewable facilities to deliver high-quality electricity, helping to stabilize the grid and facilitate the implementation of a grid powered entirely with renewable energy.

Latest News: Trianon’s partner Synvertec is moving forward with a proprietary inverter with embedded software to create “synchronverters” that enable large-scale interconnection.

Advisory Board Member, est. 2021

Sinewatts enables the transformation of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure market, and in so doing, transportation electrification itself. By lowering the size, weight, and cost of the charging infrastructure, hundreds of billions of dollars of spending is avoided, transforming vehicle batteries into mobile energy transport devices, fueled by solar during the day and bring the power home at night.

Latest News: Plug And Play selects Sinewatts into their Summer 2021 Program, where it will receive unprecedented access to the Plug And Play corporate, VC, and mentor network.

Co-founder, Advisory Board Member, est. 2018

restorVault intelligent virtualization can free up over 80% of server storage for business data, reducing cost, hardware, and energy use, while increasing protection, compliance, sustainability, and access for your business.

Latest News: Startup restorVault reaches profitability in Q1 2024.

Board of Directors, Operations Chair, 2011 – 2014, 2018 – 2023

An advanced digital grid is the critical infrastructure component of a decarbonized economy.

The GridWise Alliance leads a diverse membership of electricity industry stakeholders focused on accelerating innovation that delivers a secure, reliable, resilient, and affordable grid to support the decarbonization of the US economy. 

Latest News: White House recognizes the launch of the formation of the Grid Infrastructure Advisory Council (GIAC) to support the Alliance’s call for at least $50 billion in federal spending to modernize the nation’s electric power transmission and distribution systems.

Advisory Committee Member since 2019

DISTRIBUTECH International is the leading annual transmission and distribution event that addresses technologies used to move electricity from the power plant through the transmission and distribution systems to the meter and inside the home. The conference and exhibition offer information, products, and services related to electricity delivery automation and control systems, energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy integration, advanced metering, T&D system operation and reliability, communications technologies, cybersecurity, water utility technology, and more.

Latest News: DistribuTECH in February in Orlando, Florida was awesome! The Climate Champions did a LIVE episode from the EXPO! Lee’s guest was Whit Fulton, CEO, ConnectDER.

Advisory Board Member 2018 – 2021

Sol Systems is a leading, national solar energy firm with an established reputation for integrity and reliability across its three distinct and complementary businesses: Sol Trading, Sol Fund & Asset Management, and Sol Customer Solutions.

Latest News: Sol Systems has surpassed 2 GW of solar projects developed and/or financed valued at more than $2 billion for Fortune 100 companies, municipalities, counties, utilities, universities, and schools.

Board Member 2012 – 2019

GridX is the leading provider of Business Operations Support (BOS) Cloud, a suite of cloud services to enable utilities, Retail Energy Suppliers, and Community Choice Aggregators (CCA’s) to streamline their customer operations and transform their businesses.

Latest News: GridX Announces $40 Million in Series C Funding and Appoints New CEO – Chris Black.

Testimonials

I have been in the position to work with electricity industry leaders from across the country on critical issues regarding our Nation’s ability to ensure reliable, affordable, and safe electric service now and into the future. Lee Krevat stands out as a true visionary among an extraordinary group of experts.

Eric Lightner, Director, Smart Grid Task Force,
U.S. Department of Energy


Lee has been instrumental in guiding the company’s policies and initiatives that have led to our receiving countless awards for leadership in advancing the state of new technological breakthroughs in our industry. Lee represents the very best that SDG&E has to offer.

As a leader in everything “Smart Grid,” to never accepting the status quo, Lee continues to lead the way toward a brighter future for our industry.

Jim Avery, Director,
WECC (Western Electricity Coordinating Council)


The utility industry as a whole has not changed much since the days of Thomas Edison. Lee was one of the first people in over a hundred years to challenge the status quo and see things differently. The vision of a smarter electric grid conceived by Lee is transforming the entire energy value chain. Smart Grid enables us to use renewable energy resources, integrate electric vehicles, manage the grid more efficiently, prevent outages and provide customers with ability to more effectively manage their energy consumption and bills.

Just as important as all of Lee’s industry achievements are his leadership skills. In addition to being able to unite diverse groups of individuals around a common vision, Lee also maintains high level of integrity and genuinely cares for others. Over the years, I have witnessed Lee mentor and coach many professionals.

Elizaveta Malashenko, Director
California Public Utilities Commission


Lee is passionate about the need to advance the modernization of our electric grid to ensure it is ready to enable a sustainable energy future and can integrate new distributed energy resources such as roof top solar and electric vehicles. He led the effort to develop the [Grid Modernization] index criteria and then introduced the 2013 GMI results at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Summer Meeting in July. This would not have been possible without Lee’s leadership. 

Becky Harrison, CEO
The GridWise Alliance