As FERC 745 Is Implemented, Comverge Ups Offerings for C&I Demand Response
Katherine Tweed: June 12, 2013
No one wants to be just a demand response company anymore.
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No one wants to be just a demand response company anymore.
Getting to 2 kW per home is a big deal in mass automated residential demand response.
Texas has a power problem.
Emerson and partners pilot a home-to-cloud-to-utility energy platform in Georgia.
The ARPA-E-backed startup wants to connect multiple residential energy technologies, business models to meet real-time grid needs.
The big U.S. demand response provider is launching utility SaaS offerings, big data analytics and open development partnerships.
The slow path toward ubiquitous, modular smart grid connectivity for water heaters, AC units and other big home energy loads
Who needs a gateway when most houses already have a home network?
SDG&E is now synching in-home devices to customers’ smart meters, and PG&E has launched a HAN program.
FERC Orders 745 and 755, OpenADR, the smart building-smart grid nexus, and other key demand response trends
Will hefty rebates from Southern California Edison drive sales into the nascent HAN market?
ABB CEO Joe Hogan cites the price paid for a Silicon Valley smart grid startup with more than $30 million in VC.
The standard “language” for ZigBee, WiFi and HomePlug still isn’t as feature-rich as today’s one-way proprietary systems. SEP 2.0 should take care of that—but when?
Legislation that supports demand response opens the door to the smart grid.
Lack of IPOs and low valuations for acquired startups bode poorly for VC investment in the slow-to-grow sector.
The shift from the centralized utility model is forcing utilities—for the first time in their existence—to figure out how to compete.
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