{"id":98121,"title":"Condor Energy - powering next-gen electricity supply","tagline":"AI-powered cockpit for electricity procurement","body":"Hey, we’re [Clément](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clement-grivel/), [Jean](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-costa-de-beauregard/) and [Florian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-perocheau/) - electricity nerds building Condor Energy. We met in France, where Florian used to trade power, and Clément and Jean worked together on hydropower plants.\\\n\\\n**TL;DR:** Condor Energy builds software for next-generation electricity supply. We help C\u0026I customers, data center operators and their utilities cut electricity bills by up to 20% and de-risk their operations. We’re live with a leading data center operator, large retail chains and European industrial companies.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/HAFYJAKjK3U\u003e\n\n❌ **The problem**\n\nWe realized that as the grid moves towards renewables, large energy consumers like data centers would need better tools for their electricity management. We interviewed 200+ companies spending €Ms/y on power, and we realized this was a consistent problem.\n\n* Electricity costs are no longer “price \\* volume”: they depend on location, time of day, peaks, imbalance, regulation…\n* Large energy consumers must leverage highly complex options and invest $Ms : on-site generation and storage, long-term contracts, RECs, demand-response programs…\n* Yet, they still manage power on incorrect spreadsheets, manual forecasting, wrong data and simplistic simulations.\n\nAnd these errors lead to misinformed Capex investments, delayed interconnection, higher energy costs and unstable grids.\n\n**🧠 The solution**\\\nToday, Condor works with large companies in Europe, and we’re launching in the US. They currently use our software for their:\n\n* Hedging: a large European industrial simulates and tracks its hedge portfolios to secure long-term energy costs.\n* Budgeting: a major retail chain forecasts PPAs and Spot market exposure over all of its stores, and then verifies its invoice.\n* Investment: a leading data center operator with complex procurement optimizes its energy spending by simulating on-site \u0026 off-site investments.\n\n\\\nHere’s what Condor does for them:\n\n* Monitor and forecast their day-to-day energy needs and costs, on each facility and in total.\n* Improve their energy procurement and plan their investments based on accurate data, simulations and forecasts.\n* Plan their operations and steer their behind-the-meter assets directly via our platform.\n\nBecause we centralize and curate all their energy data (consumption, market, contracts, regulation…), our customers use Condor to make better decisions - saving millions and de-risking their operations.\n\n**Our ask:** If you are a business in the US or in France spending more than €1M/y on electricity, we can help you improve your energy procurement.\\\nVisit [condor.energy](http://condor.energy) to book a demo - or send an email to [jean@condor.energy](mailto:jean@condor.energy).","slug":"PWb-condor-energy-powering-next-gen-electricity-supply","created_at":"2026-02-24T01:27:21.232Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:47:27.222Z","total_vote_count":18,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PWb-condor-energy-powering-next-gen-electricity-supply","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31303,"name":"Condor Energy","slug":"condor-energy","url":"https://www.condor.energy","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8fb409eebab1bce05d1234942c6f03c6739eec60.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31303"}}