Thrive

At a glance

Thrive owns residential solar and battery systems across the country as a third-party owner (TPO). Flip brought Thrive's mixed fleet of thousands of systems onto one platform, monitors it, and turns systems scattered across many utility territories into grid revenue.

The challenge

A third-party owner's fleet rarely looks tidy. Thrive's systems were installed by different contractors, on different hardware, across dozens of utility territories.

That made two jobs hard:

• Knowing the fleet's health. Each manufacturer has its own monitoring portal and data format, so there was no single view of which systems were working, which had failed and which were misconfigured.
• Earning grid revenue. Battery programs are set utility by utility, each with its own rules, eligibility checks and DERMS. A fleet spread thinly across many territories is hard to monetize one program at a time.

What Flip did

One platform for every brand. Flip connected Thrive's systems from every manufacturer in its fleet and brought their data into one standardized view, backfilling history so Thrive could see how each system had performed over time.

Fleet health monitoring. Flip watches every system and flags problems Thrive's team can act on, such as dead batteries, inverters left in standby, or grid export disabled by the installer.

Programs across utility boundaries. For each home, Flip finds the programs it qualifies for in its own utility territory, matches it to the right utility account, and enrolls it. The same fleet earns from different programs in different places, without Thrive managing each one.

Performance investigations. After events, Flip digs into how each manufacturer's systems performed and why, and works with Thrive on the fixes that raise output in the next event.

Outcomes

• Investor reporting made simple. Thrive uses Flip's standardized fleet data to report to its investors, with one consistent view of output and battery health across every brand.
• Performance guarantees upheld. Flip's monitoring lets Thrive catch underperforming systems early and fix them, so it can meet the performance guarantees it has made.
• New revenue from existing assets. Thrive's batteries now earn grid revenue in VPP programs, with no extra work from Thrive's team.
• A fleet ready for new programs. As Flip adds programs, more of Thrive's fleet becomes eligible without new integration work.

Why it matters for asset owners and utilities

Third-party owners and other fleet owners hold thousands of batteries that sit idle between outages because no single program covers their footprint. Flip turns those fleets into grid resources: one platform for every brand, monitoring that keeps systems healthy, and enrollment in every program each home qualifies for.

For utilities, that means more capacity from batteries already installed in their territory, delivered by a partner that keeps those systems working.