KiWi at Plug and Play Silicon Valley Summit 2026: Taking the AI Energy Operating System to the Valley
From May 19–21, KiWi New Energy was invited to Plug and Play's Silicon Valley Summit at 440 N Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale — the global accelerator's flagship gathering of corporates, investors, and high-growth startups. Across three days of pitches, partner meetings, and on-stage demos, KiWi presented the AI Energy Datacenter (AI-EDC) to a US audience for the first time and connected with utilities, hyperscalers, energy traders, and city delegations evaluating how to industrialize distributed solar, storage, and demand response at portfolio scale.
The Plug and Play Silicon Valley Summit, held May 19–21 at Plug and Play's Sunnyvale headquarters, is the accelerator's flagship event of the year — three days of curated pitches, partner meetings, and corporate matchmaking with the Fortune 500s, hyperscalers, and energy majors that anchor its global network. KiWi New Energy was invited as part of the climate and energy track to share how an AI operating layer can finally unlock distributed renewables at portfolio scale.
On stage, KiWi presented the AI Energy Datacenter (AI-EDC) — the platform that ingests real-time data from generation, behind-the-meter storage, and per-site consumption, then dispatches green power every 15 minutes to where it is most needed. The live demo focused on Supply & User Energy Profiling: how AI-EDC builds a per-site demand signature, matches it against on-site solar and aggregated supply, and produces a dispatchable green portfolio out of what is otherwise a fragmented set of meters and assets.
Conversations spanned US utilities, energy traders, retail and food-service brands evaluating RE100 in the US market, and hyperscale buyers looking for granular, time-matched green power. A recurring question from the Valley: how do we replicate the FamilyMart and Decathlon multi-site model — thousands of stores moved onto a single AI-dispatched green portfolio — for North American retail, logistics, and data center footprints? AI-EDC was designed for exactly that aggregation problem.
We were proud to represent Taiwan alongside the Taoyuan City Government delegation and fellow Taiwanese deep-tech founders at the Plug and Play campus, and to deepen our partnership with the Plug and Play network as we expand KiWi's footprint into North America. Special thanks to the Plug and Play Energy and Sustainability teams for the invitation, and to every corporate partner who took the time to dive into the AI-EDC roadmap with us.
If we did not get a chance to connect in Sunnyvale, we would love to continue the conversation — especially with US utilities, retailers, and data center operators exploring time-matched green power and Virtual Power Plant aggregation. Reach us at cs@kiwinewenergy.com or via the Contact page.
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