Watt it Takes: Tyba Co-Founder and CEO Michael Baker

Nov 26, 2025

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Michael Baker,

Tyba

Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tyba, a software company for operating and developing grid-scale battery storage. Tyba's software helps power companies dispatch and bid storage-backed plants, maximizing project revenue and bolstering grid reliability.

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Emily spoke with Michael about his path from growing up across several continents, where he first saw how energy shapes opportunity, to discovering storage and the gaps in the industry’s tools that ultimately led him to start Tyba. Since then, the company has grown from early prototypes to working with customers ranging from global energy companies to leading solar-plus-storage developers, and is now on track to manage two gigawatts of customer assets by the end of the year.

Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tyba, overseeing product development and commercial operations. Michael has over 10 years of experience in battery storage, shaping the development of early behind-the-meter and VPP projects with Stem, and grid-scale projects with Cypress Creek Renewables before founding Tyba. Started in 2020, Tyba has become one of the largest optimizers of energy storage in the US, managing grid scale assets in Texas and California, and supporting over $1B in project development. Michael holds a BS in Mathematics from Duke University.

Through his work at Tyba, Michael focuses on power market structure, working with ISO and FERC staff on price formation and asset participation models for battery storage. Outside of work he is passionate about public transit, history, cooking, and backpacking.

“I really feel that it's inevitable that when you introduce the concept of inventory and storage itself to a supply chain that's never had it, and combine that with Moore's law type cost dynamics, that's just a really powerful -no pun intended- recipe for transformation.”