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Maya Chen

@mayachen

2x founder. Sold a grid-analytics tool to an energy utility in 2022. Now making rooftop solar pay members back in kWh.

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Helios Gridactive

Rooftop solar co-ops that pay members back in kWh, not paperwork.

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Recent updates · 8
Maya Chen· 10d ago

Second-city pilot is open. Also: started a first conversation with a hardware partner about co-designing the next metering unit. Early, but the shape is there.

Maya Chen· 21d ago

Tainan cohort signed a letter of intent for the second-city pilot. Different grid operator, so interconnect is a fresh fight — but demand travels.

Maya Chen· 28d ago

Crossed 1,000,000 cumulative kWh tracked. Number goes up, but the thing I care about is that zero members have asked 'where did my credit go' this month. The accounting is holding.

Maya Chen· 35d ago

First co-op is officially live in Taichung — 12 households on one array. Local paper picked it up. The founders of the building association are now our loudest advocates.

Maya Chen· 42d ago

Hard week. Our metering integration broke twice and a co-op member churned. Wrote down exactly what failed so it can't happen at the next site.

Maya Chen· 49d ago

MVP is live for the pilot group. Every member can open the app and see which kWh came off their own panels vs the shared array. Watching someone see their first credit land is the whole job.

Maya Chen· 63d ago

Ran the demand survey properly this time. 40 owners, structured questions. The wedge is real: people don't distrust solar, they distrust the paperwork. That's the thing we're actually killing.

Maya Chen· 70d ago

Week 1. Knocked on 40 doors in Beitun. The pitch that landed: 'your roof already makes power — we just make sure you get paid for every watt of it.' 31 said tell me more.