NVIDIA highlighted five clean energy companies using its computing hardware and simulation tools at New York Climate Week on Monday. The announcement detailed projects addressing grid interconnection delays, nuclear facility operations, and data center power supplies.
Grid software and nuclear tools
Southern California Edison reduced the time required to review grid interconnection applications from 30 to 45 days to two minutes using software from ThinkLabs AI, NVIDIA reported. ThinkLabs runs digital twins and automated agents on the NVIDIA CUDA platform to model transmission constraints. Founder and chief executive Josh Wong said the software evaluates grid conditions as probabilities rather than static values to assist utility investment decisions.
Atomic Canyon created two platforms to support commercial nuclear operations using NVIDIA accelerated computing. Its Neutron software functions as an engineering workbench that organizes procedures, regulatory filings, licensing documentation, and operating history into a searchable knowledge layer. The startup also developed the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant alongside the Electric Power Research Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Atomic Canyon chief executive Trey Lauderdale said conventional operational methods cannot scale to current electricity demands without AI assistance.
Power storage and advanced reactors
Redwood Materials is building off-grid energy storage systems for data centers using recycled electric vehicle batteries. The systems deploy an operational layer running on the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to adjust supply to data center power draw in real time. Chief technology officer Colin Campbell stated that Redwood's proprietary power electronics reduce the number of transformers and inverters required on site while removing the need for uninterruptible power supply units.
TerraPower is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse to build digital twins of its planned Natrium nuclear reactor. The company seeks to reduce plant delivery timelines from years to months. President and chief executive Chris Levesque noted that co-founders including Bill Gates established the company to address carbon emissions. Nuclear facilities currently supply 20 percent of electricity in the United States. Natrium plants use liquid metal sodium coolant instead of water, operate at atmospheric pressure, and rely on passive cooling during emergencies without external electricity or operator intervention.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is using Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD to model its SPARC tokamak fusion demonstration device. High-temperature superconductors allow CFS to generate stronger magnetic fields, making the SPARC design 40 times smaller than earlier fusion systems. Cofounder and chief science officer Brandon Sorbom stated that fusion is passively safe because the process shuts down if containment is disrupted. CFS plans to connect its first commercial ARC power plant to the electrical grid in Chesterfield County, Virginia, during the 2030s.
