The greatest challenge facing the grid today is not generating power, but orchestrating it. Historically, the system has always worked in one direction: centralized power plants push electricity outward to the loads at the end of the line. But the emergent grid is both distributed and transactive, with power actively negotiated among participants and technologies. It includes both fossil-fuel powered thermal generation and variable renewables. It leverages energy storage. And its loads—notably AI data centers—are increasingly dynamic, capable of drawing enormous power one moment and none the next, either upon request or of their own accord. Orchestrating all that requires an expanding tangle of specialized hardware—transformers, inverters, rectifiers, battery management systems, switchgear, uninterruptible power supplies—daisy-chained together. "We know that if you blend energy sources, you can get the best reliability and the absolute lowest cost," says Haroon Inam, co-founder and CEO of DG Matrix. "But the jumble of electronics you need to do that is a nightmare."

DG Matrix has solved that problem with the world's first multiport solid-state transformer—a single device that replaces the tangle of power conversion equipment with one compact, software-defined system. Its platform can simultaneously manage multiple sources of generation and multiple electrical loads, dynamically routing power among them. That dramatically reduces the cost, complexity, footprint, and deployment time of power infrastructure—unlocking the transactive grid that today’s energy systems demand, but that legacy hardware has been unable to efficiently deliver. “What both AI data centers and renewable power developers desperately need—and what we have engineered—is the equivalent of an internet router but for power,” says co-founder and CTO Subhashish Bhattacharya.

DG Matrix’s technology has its origins in the industry-leading FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University, where Bhattacharya has led research on solid-state transformers since 2008. While the basics of SST technology are decades old, their commercial application at grid scales has been limited. Conventional copper-winding transformers are cheap and extraordinarily reliable, but as the demands on the grid have grown more complex, their limitations have compounded. Bespoke designs and supply chain bottlenecks now mean lead times of up to four years for larger systems, and they remain passive and one-directional, capable only of stepping voltage up and down. DG Matrix’s multiport innovation changes that equation entirely, offering new capabilities and a discrete supply chain. “Our solid-state, multiport device does not replace one transformer—it replaces an entire system of power conversion equipment,” explains Inam.

DG Matrix’s Interport platform offers a fundamentally more flexible and responsive power infrastructure, capable of bridging the load demands of AI data centers with increasingly complex systems that combine storage with multiple types of energy generation. Each of its six ports is bidirectional and configurable as AC or DC, input or output, allowing one device to simultaneously manage grid power, solar, batteries, and generators, while feeding multiple loads at different voltages. At AI data centers, the DG Matrix platform significantly speeds deployment by enabling flexible infrastructure for sites that need power faster than utilities can deploy it. Rather than waiting years for utilities to extend or upgrade transmission, its technology allows power to be orchestrated on-site, from whatever sources are at hand. For the broader electrification market—including EV fleet charging, industrial microgrids, and distributed power—its platform can reduce costs by 30-40% compared to legacy systems, while increasing efficiency. The single device encompasses the functionality of transformers, inverters, rectifiers, UPS systems, and the switchgear between them.

DG Matrix’s ambition is to be not merely a transformer replacement, but the enabling infrastructure of the “infinite grid”—a future system in which any combination of generation, storage, and load can be blended and managed at any site. "We are engineering a system with the potential to democratize the availability of power anywhere on the planet," says Inam. "The breadth of today’s technologies promise to offer transformational benefits, but only if we can be the glue that holds it all together.”