Fast Company named Hanwha's EnergyFluo to its 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list in the Applied AI category, the company said Oct. 7, 2026. EnergyFluo is an agentic AI energy management system built by TransGrid Energy, a Hanwha Group company.
The system orchestrates power from the grid, battery storage and on-site generation, and optimizes facility load so data centers can run more IT capacity within the power they already have. TransGrid Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hanwha FutureProof, and Hanwha is South Korea's fifth-largest business group.
EnergyFluo uses agentic AI, physics-based equipment models and digitized operating procedures to analyze real-time data across power generation, battery storage, cooling and IT loads. Hanwha said the system targets operational cost savings of 5% to 25%, depending on site configuration, and that human operators remain in control of key decisions.
The technology behind EnergyFluo was among the first AI-enabled products globally to receive certification under UL 3115, the Outline of Investigation for Safety of AI-Based Products, in March 2026.
Fast Company highlighted EnergyFluo's machine learning and large language model-driven capability to autonomously monitor data center operations, analyze potential causes of issues and determine how to respond to optimize power consumption. The magazine pointed to Prime Group's adoption of the system for a nationwide deployment of edge data centers as an example of its use.
TransGrid Energy CEO Dr. Youngchoon Park said data centers have become "some of the most complex energy systems on the grid" and that EnergyFluo lets operators "run their entire fleet from one intelligent view."
