GridBridge, an Ermco Co.

GridBridge is a Raleigh company on Pinecrest Road that builds equipment and software for electric utilities. The work sits at what the industry calls the grid edge: the substation and everything downstream of it, where power reaches homes and businesses.

Its products manage distributed energy resources, reduce demand and monitor secondary distribution feeders, so a utility can see what is happening on its own lines. The company is part of ERMCO, and the combined group brings hardware, software and data management to the same problem.

What to know

• ERMCO has been headquartered in Dyersburg, Tennessee, since 1971.
• The parent company covers utility, renewable energy, public power, commercial and industrial markets.
• Staff include utility business professionals, electrical engineers and PhDs.
• The group points to more than 50 years of reliability behind its products.