In this Member Spotlight we hear from new Startup member, Konductor, on winning Scottish Green Energy Award for Innovation in Software & Services 2024, and joining ScotlandIS following valuable conversations with the community at our Founders Hub events.
Who is Konductor and what do you do?
Konductor is an asset management platform built specifically for distributed energy – bringing all of your energy assets together in one place (including wind, solar, hydropower, batteries and more). We work with asset operators, community energy projects, minigrid developers and operations and maintenance contractors across the UK, giving them everything they need to run their assets effectively: real-time monitoring and alerting, personnel tracking, advanced reporting, document storage, and a full audit trail. The result is fewer unplanned outages, fewer site visits, and more generation from assets that already exist.
Tell us something unique or interesting about your organisation.
When most people think of energy assets, they picture giant power stations or offshore wind farms. But around 30% of the UK’s electricity comes from distributed energy, smaller assets connected to the distribution network rather than the national grid. Despite this, the people and organisations who own and operate these assets have been largely underserved by technology. We estimate that the cumulative underperformance of distributed energy assets across the UK is enough to power a city the size of Inverness – and we’re here to change that.
What is your biggest achievement as an organisation?
Konductor has just been spun out of Energy Mutual, an energy consultancy with over a decade of hands-on experience working with distributed assets across Scotland. After years of building and refining the platform in the field, on real sites, in real conditions, we reached the point where the software deserved a dedicated home to scale on its own. That journey has already been recognised: our platform won the Scottish Green Energy Award for Innovation in Software & Services 2024, and was named Global Runner-Up, and the only UK winner, in the Shell LiveWire Innovation Competition 2025. We’re just getting started.
What prompted you to become a member of ScotlandIS?
We’ve been attending the Founders Hub events at the Bayes Centre in Edinburgh for several months and have had consistently valuable conversations with experienced founders across the community. As a Scottish company building for a global market, we’re excited to be part of an organisation that understands what it takes to grow ambitious technology businesses here, and we’re looking forward to contributing as well as learning.
What do you see as the main challenges for the tech industry in the UK and Scotland?
AI is both the biggest opportunity and the most complex challenge facing the industry right now. For smaller organisations like ours, it’s a genuine, incredible enabler, allowing lean teams to punch well above their weight.
But we have real concerns too. As more organisations use AI for tasks that previously served as entry points for junior talent, the pipeline of experienced engineers risks narrowing over time. There’s also a more pressing challenge around security and over-reliance, organisations adopting AI rapidly without fully understanding the risks they’re introducing.
Getting the balance right, ambitious adoption, grounded in good judgement is one of the defining challenges of this moment in tech.
Get in touch if you’d like to find out more at info@konductor.energy , or visit konductor.energy.