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Grid Systems Corporation was founded in late 1979 by John Ellenby, [1] who left his job at Xerox PARC and joined Glenn Edens, Dave Paulsen and Bill Moggridge to form one of Silicon Valley's first stealth companies. The company went public in March 1981. It was located at 47211 Lakeview Boulevard, Fremont, California, 94537.
[2] [4] [1] In 1988, Grid was sold to the Tandy Corporation. [2] [5] The design for The Compass computer was allegedly based on the shape of Ellenby's briefcase. [10] In 1987, Ellenby founded Agilis Corporation; he acted as the President of the company until 1990, and in 1989 the company produced hand-held computers with built-in Ethernet ports.
Grid, styled "GRID," was founded during the 2001 California energy crisis by Erica Mackie, P.E., and Tim Sears, P.E., two engineering professionals. [2] According to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program profile, it "piloted its flagship Solar Affordable Housing Program in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004, and subsequently expanded to other parts of the state."
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The rest of the state’s grid withstood record heat and electricity consumption and narrowly averted what would have been the first rolling blackouts in California since 2020.
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Willdan Group, Inc. (Willdan) is an American publicly traded company selling professional technical and consulting services to public and private utilities, public agencies at all levels of government, and commercial and industrial firms. The company operates offices in more than a dozen states, with its key operations in California and New York.
After school, he worked for Stratus Computer and Honeywell Information Systems before being president and chief operating officer of GRiD Systems. [8] He joined Cisco in 1988, then a four-year-old company with 34 employees, as its second chief executive officer and chairman of the board. [ 5 ]