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About Flux Tailor

Flux Tailor designs and develops user-centric, data-driven solutions to improve access to energy related information that are transparent, equitable, inclusive, secure, and user-friendly. We are focused on building software tools to support decision making and collaboration that accelerate the implementation of solutions to address climate change and drive the clean energy transition. We want to empower consumers with the data they need to track their environmental bottom line with the same accuracy as their financial bottom line. Access to machine readable data will help people imagine, explore, and participate on the frontiers of clean tech innovation.

Flux Tailor is working on solutions that support the clean energy transition to address climate change. We are committed to:

  • Developing ecosystem enabling software based on open data exchange standards
  • Promoting the transparent and equitable access to energy related data for all users by engaging with under represented user groups
  • Maximizing adoption by advocating for consumer agency, informed consent, and data privacy

Flux Tailor provides information management expertise in utility data exchange to software developers, utilities, data acquisition companies, and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Solution Providers. We research, design, and implement software solutions to enable the clean energy transition.

Flux Tailor is proud to be a certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) in New York State and New York City.

Why Our Name?

Flux =  as in “flows” of consumables like energy and water, the “flows” of customer data about these services, and as in the “change” happening in both of these areas. Tailor =   as in tailoring the right data flows needed to optimize the flows of consumables, and as in tailoring the process of change.

About Klaar De Schepper, Founder and CEO/CTO

Klaar De Schepper is a subject matter expert in utility data management. She writes about the role of data access and standards in customer participation in smart grid innovation. Prior to starting Flux Tailor, Klaar De Schepper established a data team at Bright Power,  an Energy Management company. There, she helped implement data feeds for tens of thousands of utility meters and hundreds of utility companies across the US. Passionate about information management, Klaar performed research for IBM and the Columbia University Libraries and is a published author. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Science and Sustainable Development from Columbia University. Klaar is an active contributor to the efforts of Mission:data, which works with utilities and utility commissions around the country to give customers and their chosen third parties access to standardized machine readable utility data.

About Drury MacKenzie, Senior Adviser, User Voice Lead

Drury is an energy entrepreneur, with professional experience in the US, Haiti, Africa, LATAM, Europe and Asia. She works with various clean tech startups as a NYSERDA EIR, Grow NY mentor and advisor. At Flux Tailor she focuses on user engagement and strategy to ensure equitable, relevant and scalable product development in support of the energy transition. She was a visiting assistant professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, was on the Smart Grid Innovation team at Avangrid (Iberdrola), an entrepreneur in the off-grid energy space, and a Peace Corp Volunteer in Haiti. Drury has a BA in Economics from Hobart and William Smith Colleges (studied at St Andrews University, Scotland her junior year), a MBA from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain and has completed an executive leadership program through ESADE Business School.