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Our story, and the pitch we give investors.

Read this before you write to us. It is the whole argument in order — the problem at the pedestal, how the lease model answers it, how the blocks are built and why a utility takes the call — plus quotes you may use and a plain list of what is not true yet.

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The story, in order

Chapter one

The power at the end of the pier

A marina pedestal, a boat yard service panel and an RV park loop were all sized for a world of small loads — a battery charger, a fridge, a light. Electric boats and electric vehicles arrive with loads an order of magnitude larger, and they arrive at the same hours, on the same weekends, at the same pedestals.

The owner feels it twice. First as a service that cannot deliver what guests now expect, and second as a utility bill where the demand charge — the price of the single highest moment in the month — quietly outgrows the energy charge. The quoted fix is a distribution upgrade measured in years and in money no seasonal business has sitting idle.

Chapter two

A different way to pay for capacity

GridLynQ does not sell the host equipment. The host contributes the site under a long-term host site agreement; GridLynQ funds, owns, operates and guarantees the storage that sits on it. If a battery underperforms or reaches the end of its life, that is GridLynQ's cost and GridLynQ's obligation, written into the agreement rather than left to goodwill.

That single decision is what makes the model work at a property that cannot raise capital. The host is not buying a promise about future energy prices. They are leasing ground and getting relief on the bill they already pay.

Chapter three

Hub and spoke, in repeatable blocks

Capacity arrives as a prefabricated battery block, standard prefabricated blocks, added one at a time as demand grows. The first property in a cluster becomes the hub: it carries the interconnection, the control equipment and the operating relationship with the utility. Nearby marinas, boat yards and RV parks attach as spokes, so no one of them has to negotiate an upgrade alone.

Repeating one unit is the point. Cost falls as the count rises, replacement is a swap rather than a rebuild, and a cluster can grow year by year without re-permitting the whole design.

Chapter four

Why a utility takes the call

A single waterfront property asking for more capacity is an expensive nuisance. A cluster of sites with recorded leases, prepared pads and a common control layer is a portfolio — and a portfolio of ready projects is something a utility planner can actually schedule.

The same storage that shaves a property's own peaks during the day supports the grid at the hours it is most strained. That is the argument, and aggregation is what turns it from a slide into a project.

The pitch, slide by slide

This is the same deck we walk with investors, written out. The PDF is on the press kit.

  1. 01

    Docks are plugging into a grid that is running out of room

    Marinas and RV parks are being asked to deliver far more power at the pedestal than their service was ever built for. The utility answer is a multi-year upgrade the host cannot fund.

    • Shore power demand is rising faster than distribution capacity
    • Hosts carry the demand charges and the upgrade quotes
    • Nobody is aggregating these sites into something a utility can work with
  2. 02

    We lease the site, we own the plant, the host puts in nothing

    A 20-year host lease with three 20-year renewals. GridLynQ funds, builds, owns, operates and guarantees the battery plant. The host contributes land and a connection, never capital.

    • Host capital contribution: zero
    • GridLynQ owns battery performance and replacement for the life of the lease
    • Day-one bill relief, then a revenue share from year three
  3. 03

    Hub and spoke, in 5 MW prefabricated blocks

    Each block is a factory-built container set. A lighthouse site takes at least one block; spokes attach to the hub as the cluster grows. Scaling is a purchase order, not a redesign.

    • Repeatable 5 MW block, priced with volume discounts
    • Hub anchors a cluster; spokes join without re-engineering
    • Build cost falls as the block count rises
  4. 04

    Site control first, then the utility

    We secure host leases, self-perform the bidirectional dock upgrades, and then take the utility an aggregated block of shovel-ready sites rather than one marina at a time.

    • Leases are signed before capital is committed to steel
    • We control the dock-side upgrade scope and its cost
    • An aggregated portfolio changes the conversation with the utility
  5. 05

    Five pilot environments, each proving a different thing

    Controlled growth through five pilots before any scaled rollout: a working marina, a municipal harbour, a boatyard, an RV resort and a mixed commercial waterfront.

    • Pilot one is the reference site the rest are sold against
    • Each environment tests a different part of the method
    • No pilot site is named publicly until it is signed
  6. 06

    The government channel

    Federal and municipal waterfront operators have the same resilience and demand-charge problem, with budget lines that already exist for it. The near-term contractable product is a paid energy-resilience and demand assessment.

    • Registration, UEI/CAGE and NAICS work is underway
    • Fastest route to a first contract is an assessment, not equipment
    • Veteran-connected technical credibility; representation stays with the CEO
  7. 07

    The EcoJiva licence

    An indicative two-part licence under discussion: perpetual worldwide exclusivity in maritime and RV, plus a time-boxed government window opening at first award.

    • Perpetual maritime and RV exclusivity by field of use
    • Seven-year government exclusivity from first award
    • Residual tail on introduced accounts, assignment rights, pre-priced buyout
  8. 08

    Provisional patent filing in preparation

    The GridLynQ method is the subject of a provisional filing. Conversion and examination are ahead of us, and we say so plainly.

    • Provisional filed; pending, not granted
    • Pilots are structured to evidence the claims
    • Trade-secret and product rights matter as much as the filing
  9. 09

    Two tranches, secured by steel at the gate

    Capital goes in against signed site control, not against a hope. Tranche two only draws once the lease is recorded, the interconnection position is established and the lien is in place.

    • Tranche 1 — $2.0M for 10% at signing: technology, team, legal
    • Tranche 2 — $6.5M for 20% at the pilot gate, first lien on plant and batteries
    • Total $8.5M for 30%
  10. 10

    Start the conversation

    Send a note through this room and it comes straight to the CEO. The first meeting is a walkthrough of the model, the site pipeline and the pilot gate conditions.

    • Model walkthrough with the live numbers behind it
    • Site pipeline and lease status
    • Diligence pack under NDA

Quotes you may use

Attributable as written. Write to the press office if you would like a fresh quote on a specific angle.

The property owner should not have to become an energy developer to keep the lights on at the end of the dock. We bring the capital, the hardware and the obligation. They bring the ground.
Kyle Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, GridLynQ Inc.
One marina asking a utility for more power is a problem. Twenty sites, already leased and already prepared, is a plan.
Kyle Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, GridLynQ Inc.
Nothing here is energized yet, and we say so on every page. When a block runs, the measured numbers replace the modelled ones and we will publish both.
Kyle Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, GridLynQ Inc.

What is true today

So nothing in a published piece has to be corrected later.

  • No block is energized yet. Every performance figure we publish is modelled, not measured.
  • No pilot site is named publicly. Sites are named when the host agreement is signed and the host agrees.
  • The patent is provisional and pending. It has not been examined or granted.
  • The EcoJiva technology relationship is at term-sheet stage, not executed.
  • The government channel is at registration stage. There is no federal award.

Talk to the press office

Kyle Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, GridLynQ Inc., Bristol, Rhode Island. Interviews, fact checks and images by email — or send a request from the press kit and it lands in our inbox with your deadline attached.

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No GridLynQ block is energized yet. Every figure shown is a modelled profile of a candidate site's conditions — speculative, not measured, and not a quote or a guarantee of results.