Sparkfund - Delivering the Distributed Grid

Distributed Capacity Procurement

Utility-grade. Accredited.Distributed capacity.

This isn't demand response. It isn't behind-the-meter. It's front-of-the-meter battery storage and gensets — utility-owned assets, integrated with DERMS, ADMS, and SCADA, dispatched from the control room, and accredited as capacity on the utility's resource plan. The kind of capacity that counts — exactly where and when the grid needs it most.

How DCP batteries and gen sets deploy as distributed capacity

Already in market

First Distributed Capacity Procurement is underway.

Xcel Energy's Capacity*Connect plans to install up to 200 megawatts of distributed battery storage at strategic grid locations by 2028, deployed in collaboration with Sparkfund. Google committed $50 million to the program as a model for how large loads can benefit existing customers rather than increase costs.

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How It Works

Design. Deploy. Dispatch.

Every DCP follows the same three-phase service framework: from network planning through field deployment to long-term grid integration and operations.

Design

Network topology planning and site assessment. Evaluate grid characteristics, identify optimal locations for distributed capacity assets, and determine system configuration requirements.

Deploy

Physical installation and system commissioning. Install hardware components, establish grid connections, and conduct comprehensive testing to ensure operational readiness.

Dispatch

Ongoing SCADA monitoring and grid control. Assets respond to grid signals in real-time, dispatched from the utility's control room to maximize reliability and efficiency.

The same three-phase framework applies across every DCP: every asset type, every market, every utility partner. That repeatability is what turns distributed capacity from a one-off project into a grid infrastructure.

Why Sparkfund

Three Capabilities.
One Delivery Partner.

Three elements have to work together to deploy distributed capacity at scale. Most companies can do one. Some can do two. Sparkfund does all three.

Find the Land

We don't start from zero.

Sparkfund maintains a growing national network of pre-vetted host sites — commercial, industrial, nonprofit, and municipal — already assessed, already engaged, already mapped to where the grid needs capacity most. When a DCP launches, the site pipeline is already in motion.

Accredit the Megawatts

Capacity that counts on the resource plan.

Every asset is designed to accredit at the highest rate the market allows — batteries where ELCC and peak duration favor a four-hour format, gen sets where load shapes are longer or wildfire resilience is the priority. Sparkfund works across utility distribution operations, system planning, and regulatory teams to ensure every MW counts. Hard capacity, utility-dispatched, on the resource plan and in the regulatory filing.

Deliver On Time, On Budget

1% variance. Every time.

The Conforming Project Playbook standardizes utility-grade battery and gen set designs across every cohort. Open-book procurement puts 80% of program value through competitive bidding, capturing falling costs in real time. The track record proves it.

Our superpower is the connective tissue across all three. No other deployment services company works inside utilities — across distribution operations, system planning, and regulatory — to find the sites, accredit the capacity, and deliver the assets at scale.

Track Record

Big. Fast. Cheap. Predictable.

We deliver hundreds of megawatts across the U.S. over 18 to 36 months, at a competitive price per megawatt at or below the price of marginal capacity. That's not a promise — it's a delivery record: 3,200+ projects across 43 states, 1,447 assets over 36 months completed at 1% variance to time and budget.

The Conforming Project Playbook — templatized utility-grade designs that improve with each deployment, competitive vendor bidding across civil, mechanical, BESS, and balance-of-system, and open-book cost management that captures falling battery prices in real time. Soft costs and engineering time decrease with each program. The first DCP builds the template. Every one after deploys faster.

3,200+ Projects deployed

43 States

300+ MW Energized assets

1% Variance to time and budget

Who are you building for?

For Utilities

Deploying DCP for your grid?

See how utilities work with Sparkfund to build distributed capacity into their planning portfolio, from first grid analytics to full dispatch.

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For Data Centers & Hyperscalers

Need capacity for your data center?

See how large-load customers fund distributed capacity off-site — utility-grade, accredited, and available fast. No onsite constraints. No multi-year wait.

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Delivering the Distributed Grid