Letter to the Editor: Dynamic Pricing Response
Rick, Your October editorial on dynamic pricing hinted one problem but missed another. You mentioned the price shock issue. That is a major concern on...
The Seven Business Benefits of Integrated Energy Management
Emerging markets can present exciting opportunities for companies to solve their current challenges, increase revenue, and engage customers in new ways. However, selecting the right solution and developing a realistic business case can be difficult in the presence of the hype and ambiguity that often accompanies new products and services. ...
Figuring in the Weather
One of the many holy grails of the utility industry has been the ability to fully incorporate real-time weather data and forecasts into utility operations. ...
Conservation and Efficiency Remain a Tough Sell
Material and energy conservation comes more naturally to some cultures. ...
Let’s Skip the Gloss
The Consumer Pulse survey issued by the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (see article and graph) showed that consumers see all seven of the listed benefits as more or less being equally great reasons to support smart grid deployment. ...
Cloud Computing Could Open Door to Effective Residential Demand Response Programs
The residential sector represents about one third of end-user electric consumption, depending on the service area. ...
Demand Response Takes Some Heat
The summer of 2011 may well prove to be the watershed year for demand response programs. Public attention has been focused on solar, wind and other renewable resources as partial alternatives to legacy supply solutions....
Customer Side Solutions – Quite a Trip. Glad You Made It
I never thought I’d see the day when we’d have a need for a Customer Solutions Center of Excellence. There was a time, not so long ago, when utility operating assets consisted of generation, transmission and distribution. ...
FERC 745 – The Genie’s Out of the Bottle
The utility industry’s attention has been caught by the clamor and shine of smart grid technology, particularly as to how it relates to dispatching distributed renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind. Smart grid enablement of demand management at the residential level – controlling thermostats, water heaters etc. – also appeals to consumer imagination, although a little more difficult to visualize....
Consumers Still Have Options After Google, Microsoft Discontinue Energy Managers
Opening up opportunities for smaller market players, Microsoft and Google pulled the plug on their home energy monitoring programs last month. ...
Why Utilities Control Load: Study
Why do utilities implement load control, and what do they do when consumption rates approach capacity? Newton-Evans asked these questions and has exclusively released those results to Penton Media’s Customer Solutions Center of Excellence....
Consumers Rule!
Welcome to our inaugural issue of Demand Side Update. This e-newsletter and accompanying “Customer Solutions Center of Excellence” is brought to you by Penton Media, reaching the facilities owners and managers in the government, industrial and commercial sectors. ...
Demand Response Gaining Momentum Among Utilities
The Newton-Evans research firm completed a privately funded study in September of last year that looked at utilities’ demand response, load management and direct load control programs. ...
Letter to the Editor
Rick, Your October editorial on dynamic pricing hinted one problem but missed another. You mentioned the price shock issue. That is a major concern on...
Put the Smart in Customers
I have a case of demand-side deja vu. For those of us who have been in the utility industry for many years, the current focus on energy efficiency and demand...
