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Who we are

Energy is all we do. From bulk energy markets to community microgrids, OATI serves every segment of the energy industry with essential technologies and services that enhance reliability, resilience, and affordability. At our core, we’re a combination of power systems engineers and innovative technologists, building better ways to power the grid.

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We were the first company to provide large-scale software-as-a-service to the energy industry, and we pioneered the bulk power and DERMS markets. Today, we continue to push the energy frontier with cloud-based grid solutions and energy-native generative AI. Without compromising on security—for 30+ years, our private data centers have safeguarded the energy industry’s data.

OATI was founded in 1995 by world-renowned power systems engineer Dr. Sasan Mokhtari, PhD. Privately owned for more than 30 years, OATI is an engineering-first organization that prides itself on leading the industry’s most robust research and development team, free from the pressure of venture capitalists and institutional investors.

That independence means our roadmap is driven by what utilities need — not by what makes a good slide deck for investors.

2,500+

OATI customers — including every major grid operator in North America, and utilities around the world.
UtilitiesGrid operatorsTransmission ownersEnergy tradersCo-opsCities & tribesProject developers

OATI’s culture of safety and security

We own and manage private data centers that host all of our technologies, and voluntarily comply with NERC-CIP requirements and audits, as well as many more industry-standard security protocols. We stand with our customers at every stage, providing 24/7 support.

See for yourself— tour the purpose-built microgrid and data centers that protect your data, and the data of nearly every utility in North America.

Our Story

30+ years of energy innovation
1995-20002000-20052005-20102010-20152015-20202020-2025
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1995-2000
OATI launches and deploys solutions for trading and reliability utilities throughout North America, providing the energy industry’s first large-scale Software-as-a-Service solution.
2000-2005
We expanded our solutions to meet numerous regulatory requirements for every North American reliability entity and deployed trading and market solutions for all RTOs covering all commodities.
2005-2010
We were recognized as a leading technology provider for utilities and are credited with deploying the industry’s first distributed energy resource management system (DERMS), defining a generation of grid modernization.
2010-2015
As the energy transition accelerated, utilities needed tools that could turn distributed resources from a reliability challenge into a grid asset. OATI built them first.
2015-2020
In recognition of the power grid’s IT/OT convergence, we aligned and connected our tools to leverage distributed energy resources in utility operations, bulk power trading and reliability.
2020-2025
Long before AI entered the mainstream consciousness, our teams were hard at work building Genie™—which would become the energy industry’s first generative and agentic AI platform and the first AI application in real-time power grid operations.