Corten Energy — the intelligence that makes a distributed grid move as one

Why now

The grid is hitting a wall — at exactly the wrong moment.

Three forces are converging on the power network all at once. Demand has never climbed faster, the way we draw power is changing, and building new grid has never been slower. The maths no longer works on hardware alone.

AI & data centres

Hyperscale data centres are commissioning at a scale unimaginable a few years ago — each one a small city's worth of demand, drawing hard and fast, with power-quality needs that strain the network around them.

Everything is electrifying

EV fleets, electrified industry and advanced manufacturing are reshaping how, and how unpredictably, power gets drawn. Across whole regions the shape of demand is changing as fast as its size.

But the grid can't keep up

The equipment is on the shelf — putting it in the ground is not. New capacity means cables, road-opening approvals, and renewing assets laid decades ago: 18 to 30 months, even when everything goes right.

You can't lay cable fast enough to meet this. The fastest new capacity isn't built — it's unlocked.

That makes this a hardware-and-software play. Batteries, chargers, and flexible load are the hardware; Nervve^™ is the software that coordinates them into real value — squeezing far more out of the network we already have, and out of every new asset added to it.

The shift

A grid full of capacity that nobody can reach.

On any power network, a huge amount of capacity is reserved and paid for but barely used. At the same time, other businesses that want to grow are capped, and pay a premium for headroom they can't get. The capacity exists. It's just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Held, unused.

One business reserves more than it draws

Capacity is booked years ahead and billed in full — whether or not it is ever used. Most of it stays idle, a standing cost with nothing to show for it.

Needed, blocked.

Another is capped and pays to grow

The business next door is ready to expand, electrify, or power a new facility — but hits its ceiling and pays penalties to push past it, or waits years for new infrastructure.

The idea, in one line

The most transformative platforms of the last decade never owned what they sold — they simply unlocked what already sat idle. Nervve^™ does the same for the grid: opening up spare capacity, and matching those who hold it with those who need it.

The world's largest hospitality platform owns no rooms The largest ride network owns no cars Nervve^™ owns no power

We don't generate electricity or own the wires. We coordinate what's already there, so capacity flows to where it's worth the most and the network does more with what it has.

How it works

A marketplace, clearing quietly in the background.

It needs no new wires or power stations. It's a two-sided marketplace that uses what's already connected, moving capacity to where it's needed as conditions change.

1

Spare capacity is offered

Those who hold more reserved capacity than they use can make it available — turning a standing cost into a source of value.

2

Capacity is matched

Those who need headroom draw on it through the marketplace — growing without waiting on new infrastructure or paying punitive rates.

3

The platform clears the trade

Nervve^™ matches supply to demand, prices it fairly and settles it automatically. Both sides carry on operating exactly as before.

The trade happens in the background. Most of the time, the people it helps never see it run.

More than matching

Nervve^™ does more than match buyers and sellers.

Plenty of platforms can match supply with demand. The harder problem, and where our technology earns its keep, is reading the whole network and coordinating it as conditions change minute to minute. Three capabilities sit on top of the marketplace.

Smoothing the rough edges of power

Heavy, spiky loads disturb the grid. Nervve^™ sits in between and absorbs the shock before it lands.

AI that orchestrates the whole network

Our models turn passive consumers into active participants — flexing in concert to support the grid in real time.

A complete service layer for customers

Beyond the assets, a seamless wrap of services that lowers a customer's overall cost of power.

The platform, today

The platform is already built.

Nervve^™ is up and running, handling capacity, dispatch, flexibility and settlement across a digital model of the distribution network. Here is what it looks like today.

Singapore grid map with live network overlays

Network viewLive grid map & market operations

AI / MLAuto-dispatch & forecasting

Patent-pending optimisation visualisations

Our IPPatent-pending optimisation

FlexibilityDistributed flexibility layer

MarketplaceCapacity trading floor

Control roomGrid operations dashboard

Cloud-native and operational. Built to scale across the network. · Screens show representative data.

Who we are

A brain, and a nervous system.

Our identity is built from one idea: intelligence above, coordination below. Two names, one architecture — paired the way biology pairs them.

Corten Energy

The brain

the generative force

Corten — from cortex — is the company and the thesis. The institution that carries the conviction, the long horizon, and the standing. Playful on first contact; quietly vast on reflection.

It is the name customers, partners, and the public connect to. The intelligence that decides what should happen.

GenerativeConsideredLong horizon

Nervve^™

The nervous system

invisible coordination

Nervve^™ — from nerve — is the platform. It takes what the brain intends and makes a distributed network respond as one. It dispatches before the problem lands and coordinates without being seen.

The double-v signals flow in both directions at once: it listens to the grid, and it acts on it.

AlivePreciseCoordinated

The brain decides what should happen; the nervous system makes it happen across the network. One company, one platform.

Why it matters

The payoff is bigger than lower bills.

Every bit of idle capacity we put to work is infrastructure that doesn't have to be built. Across a whole network, that changes what the energy transition costs and how quickly it can happen.

More from the same grid

Unlock capacity that already exists, instead of building costly new infrastructure to sit half-used.

Growth, sooner

Let industry, data centres, and electrified business get the power they need without waiting years.

Capital freed

Turn a standing cost into value, and defer billions in build-out that the transition would otherwise demand.

A faster transition

A coordination layer for distributed energy — the connective tissue a decarbonising grid needs to move as one.

Where we start

The pressures are global, so the opportunity is too. We're beginning in Singapore: one of the world's most advanced and most capacity-constrained grids, with a regulator that moves.

It's the ideal place to prove the model — dense, digital and under real strain. What works here is built to travel to other networks facing the same squeeze, across Asia and beyond.

The people

Built by people who have sat on every side of the table.

Regulators, network operators, investors and the businesses that depend on power: this is a problem you can only solve if you understand all of them.

J M Cheang

Co-Founder

A decade-plus building clean-energy businesses across Asia-Pacific — most recently leading new-market entry for a global low-carbon energy major as Director, New Markets APAC, after establishing its clean-energy business across Australia and Asia from the ground up. A chemical engineer by training (Imperial College London), he has originated energy storage, transmission, electricity-import and hydrogen projects, and moves fluently between regulators, network operators, and investors.

J Y Low

Co-Founder

An energy-transition operator and founding-team executive with deep experience across regulated, asset-heavy infrastructure. As an early investor and Chief Innovation & Engineering Officer at an electric-maritime clean-energy platform, he helped raise ~S$24M across three rounds and defined the technical and regulatory pathways to commercial viability. A mechanical engineer (Imperial College London) with a background in project finance and commercial structuring, he turns regulatory tailwinds, technology feasibility, and execution risk into bankable, scalable platforms.

Advisory board

Regulation & grid

Energy market design

Four decades in power-system operation, electricity market design, and grid regulation at the heart of a national energy market.

Capital & finance

Infrastructure investment

25+ years structuring energy and infrastructure investment across Asia, with seats on multiple boards.

Strategy & policy

Institutional architecture

Decades at the meeting point of energy, government, and sovereign investment.

Names to be announced as we step out of stealth.

The ecosystem

A platform like this depends on the whole grid.

We work across the power system, from the agencies that regulate it to the businesses that rely on it every day.

Regulators & agencies

The public institutions shaping the energy transition

Network operators

The custodians of the wires and substations

Energy retailers

Gentailers billing and serving end customers

Data centres & cloud

The fastest-growing loads on the grid

Industrial & commercial

The businesses powering the real economy

Research & academia

The engineering and market-design brain trust

Infrastructure capital

The investors funding the build-out

Flexibility & storage

Batteries, EVs, and solar that make the grid bend

Named partners will be announced as engagements are confirmed.

Get on board

However you touch the grid, there's a place for you.

Nervve^™ is a network rather than a product you buy off a shelf. Here's where you might fit.

Hold capacity

You reserve more than you use

Put your spare capacity to work and turn a fixed cost into a return — without changing how you operate.

Need capacity

You're ready to grow

Reach the headroom you need to expand, electrify, or power what's next — without the wait or the penalty.

Operate the network

You run grids, retail energy, or manage flexibility

Plug into a coordination layer that makes your network more efficient and your customers better served.

Build it with us

You're a partner, investor, or builder

Help stand up the connective tissue of a distributed grid. We're assembling the people who want to build something that lasts.

Let's talk.

Tell us where you sit in the grid and we'll be in touch.

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