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Paces

Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure

Energy demand is skyrocketing, and renewable energy is the most scalable path forward. But today’s development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are building software and services to accelerate renewable energy deployment and lower costs - unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy. Paces automates early-stage due diligence and provides the expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence, fast-tracking projects from siting to construction-ready. Our platform supports renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, and more by streamlining siting, interconnection, and permitting. With Paces, teams can de-risk decisions, shorten timelines, and get more renewable energy projects built.
Active Founders
James McWalter
James McWalter
Founder
I’m the co-founder and CEO of Paces. Originally from Ireland, previously I was the founder of Hale, a personal training marketplace and held senior roles at Google acquired ML startup Hello Vera, B2B marketplace Respondent and fintech giant FactSet.
Charles Bai
Charles Bai
Founder
Charles is the co-founder and CTO of Paces. Before Paces, Charles worked on large model inference and led AI efficiency at Meta AI. Prior to that, he built data-intensive software solutions at various different startups. Charles is based in New York and holds a CS degree from Cornell University.
Company Launches
Paces - Siting and Due Diligence of Green Projects
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The Problem

80% of clean energy projects developers start never actually get built because most projects are started without deep due diligence on zoning and interconnection due to the cost of collecting that data. This means $17B worth of cancelled projects per year.

The Solution

Paces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects.

First we collect environmental, permitting, zoning, energy grid data from various different sources; then we analyze the data and use AI to identify the best places for developers to build their next projects.

Our Vision

Our long term vision for Paces is for it to be the go-to software platform to enable the climate positive development of every piece of land on earth. With Paces:

  • Solar developers can find and track all the sites for their projects.
  • EV charging developers can easily get a ranked list of the best nearby sites to deploy their next 20 charging stations
  • Heavy energy users like Data Centers, Direct Air Capture and Hydrogen plants can find locations with excess electricity
  • Financial firms can evaluate the value and risks of green assets around the world

About Us

Paces was founded by Charles and James in early 2022.

  • James is our CEO! He grew up on an organic farm in Ireland and across a 15 year tech career he was employee 1 at an Google acquired AI startup and has millions in career SaaS sales.
  • Charles is our CTO! He grew up in Beijing and completed a CS degree at Cornell. Before Paces, he led AI efficiency at Facebook AI and built metrics to track power/carbon cost of AI models.

Contact Us

If you are building in the physical worlds, such as solar, wind, battery storage, hydrogen, EV charging, real estate and data centers, please reach out to us at team@paces.com!

Jobs at Paces
Brooklyn, United States
$100K - $150K
Any (new grads ok)
Brooklyn, United States
$160K - $190K
3+ years
Brooklyn, United States
$140K - $150K
3+ years
Brooklyn, United States
$185K - $200K
6+ years
Brooklyn, United States
$220K - $240K
3+ years
Paces
Founded:2022
Batch:Summer 2022
Team Size:40
Status:
Active
Location:New York
Primary Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne