Floral Energy exits stealth to make microgrid power play

Founded in 2024 by a trio of former Rolls-Royce executives, Floral Energy is developing microgrid solutions for services such as data centres and EV charging hubs, where today’s grids are struggling to keep up with demand. Floral’s microgrids will use combinations of thermal generation, renewables, grid electricity and battery storage to provide localised industrial-scale power, optimised with digital twins and machine learning. The company said its systems will also be compatible with future nuclear generation, including small modular reactors (SMRs) and nuclear fusion. 

"On both sides of the Atlantic, energy infrastructure is buckling under the pressure of data centres, AI, EVs and population growth, and it just isn’t cut out to handle the next wave of digital growth or the energy transition,” said Floral Energy CEO and former Rolls-Royce CTO, Paul Stein. 

“At Floral Energy, we’re engineering microgrids that don’t just keep up – they redefine what’s possible. The integration of intelligent grid technologies, AI, ML and Combined Heat and Power will change the game for distributed energy. Floral Energy’s systems will achieve the very high reliability required for data centres and other high-intensity users today, while having built-in readiness for the technologies of tomorrow, including nuclear.”