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Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
About Syd
Syd is a senior content specialist and all-around word nerd for Virtual Peaker. Syd believes in the inevitability of renewable energies and in implementing a diverse energy portfolio and is excited to use his skills to help spread that message far and wide. In his scant free time, Syd is a father of two, husband of an awesome wife, a musician, and a lover of comic books, and all things sci-fi.
Syd beyond Virtual Peaker
What Are Agrovoltaics?
What Are Non-Wires Alternatives?
Utility Program Marketing 101: The Challenges of Climate Change Misinformation
Carbon Neutrality, Net Zero Emissions, & Energy Decarbonization
How Demand Flexibility Can Alleviate Grid Congestion
Utility Program Marketing 101: The Challenges of Climate Change Misinformation
The History of Demand-Side Management
Demand Response Program Management: Outsourcing vs. in-house
Written By Syd
Managing C&I Load Flexibility: How DERMS Extends Beyond Residential DERs
Demand flexibility programs often start with the residential customer: distributed energy resources (DERs) like smart thermostats, water heaters, and rooftop […]
What’s the ROI of a Virtual Power Plant Program? A Utility’s Guide to Calculating Savings
To meet rapidly rising demand, utilities evaluating demand flexibility programs are increasingly asking a straightforward question: does a virtual power […]
How Distributed Energy Resources Support Energy Affordability Efforts
As energy usage spikes, leading to $9.2 billion in rate increase requests that have driven higher customer bills, and operational […]
Addressing the Complexity Tax in Utility Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Portfolios
Utilities adding new device types, programs, or rate structures to its distributed energy resource (DER) portfolio pays a hidden price. […]
What is Data Center Load Shifting?
Data center load shifting is an effective demand flexibility strategy to minimize peak demand for data centers through aggregate conservation. […]
What To Look For in Energy Management & Utility Software
The U.S. energy sector is in the middle of a transformation that makes earlier grid modernization efforts look modest by […]
What Bad Demand Forecasting Accuracy Actually Costs an Electric Utility
Demand forecasting is one of the most consequential functions a utility performs — and one of the least scrutinized until […]
Who’s Building the Grid Edge? A Utility Operator’s Guide to What To Look For In Leading Grid-Edge DERMS Companies
What does a genuinely capable Grid-Edge DERMS platform need to do, and what separates the companies building toward the hard […]
Feeder-Level Dispatch & Grid-Edge DERMS: Get Relief Where Your Grid Needs It Most
To meet rising demand and effect feeder-level dispatch, Grid-Edge distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) provide ops teams the localized […]