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Stem, Inc. helps project developers and asset owners run solar, battery-storage and combined solar-and-storage projects. Customers pay for recurring access to its PowerTrack software, which monitors performance and controls assets. Stem also sells on-site devices that collect data and connect equipment to the software. Its PowerTrack Optimizer supports services that operate storage systems and coordinate their use across energy markets; Stem also helps customers design, procure and commission systems. Engineering and construction firms and distributors also buy its offerings.
Software and services together account for most revenue, although hardware sales remain substantial. Stem is shifting toward software, connected devices and services, including AI-enabled offerings. It has reduced battery resales, formerly its largest revenue source, rather than ended them. The batteries and related components it resells come from outside manufacturers.
The business depends on customers adopting and renewing services and on the economics of their energy projects, including electricity rates and government incentives. Stem relies on a small group of significant customers, though no single customer dominates revenue, and on few equipment suppliers. It is not a regulated utility, but storage installations need permits and utility authorization to connect to the grid.
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Stem’s results hinge on solar and energy-storage asset owners adopting its monitoring, control and optimization software, edge devices and services as it moves away from reselling batteries.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Stem’s Fed rate decision matters because interest rates affect how attractive solar and storage projects are to customers buying its PowerTrack software, edge devices and services.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the Fed rate is above expectations, higher borrowing costs may make customers less willing to invest in solar and storage projects, weakening demand for Stem’s software, hardware and services.
If it comes in below expectations
If the Fed rate is below expectations, cheaper borrowing may make customers more willing to invest in solar and storage projects, supporting demand for Stem’s software, hardware and services.
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Stem is shifting its focus from battery resales to software and services, and this report will show whether services can make up for weaker hardware revenue while protecting gross profit.
Compare services and other revenue with hardware revenue, then check gross profit—the amount left after direct costs. If services grow enough to offset weaker hardware revenue and gross profit holds or improves, the shift is supporting the business’s economics. If services do not fill the gap or gross profit weakens, the shift has not yet done so.
