Imagine if every car manufacturer built their own kind of wheel—and refused to share it. You’d have a traffic jam of innovation. That’s what’s happening in today’s energy sector.

What if you could help solve the global energy crisis in just 24 hours—with open-source hardware and a soldering iron?

Astera Institute awards $100K grant to Energy IoT Open Source to accelerate microgrid-based approach to increasing resilient, decentralized energy access. The grant supports Energy IoT’s work to expand open-source microgrid solutions, starting with an open-source energy lab at Port Labs in Oakland.