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Virtual Peaker & TrickleStar Integrate APIs, Turning Standard Water Heaters into Smart Devices

www.tricklestar.com and follow the company on LinkedIn. MEDIA CONTACTS Virtual Peaker: Mark Ray | mark@markrayassociates.com | 802-355-0145 Amber Mullaney | amullaney@virtual-peaker.com | 502-689-0249 TrickleStar: Salem Hamidi | salem.hamidi@tricklestar.com | 813-625-0687…

Betting On Customer’s Will Pay Off For Demand Flexibility

…goes beyond the traditional mailers, flyers, commercials, and open comment periods during rate filings. It requires showing up to community meetings to listen, not talk. It requires engaging device partners…

Emerging Trends In Grid Management

…in residential, business, and commercial demand flexibility initiatives. Trend #1: Demand Response as a Grid Management Resource The DOE report Pathways to: Virtual Power Plants Commercial Liftoff found that 80-160…

Leveraging Gamification in Your Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS)

…challenge their performance from month to month. Before looking at specifics, let’s look at a few common examples of gamification. Examples of Gamification There are many examples of gamification in…

Why Member Services in Electric Cooperatives are Critical

…from other electric utilities, putting the needs of their members first. Open and Voluntary Membership – Membership in a cooperative is open to all people able to use their services…

Encouraging Customer Enrollment in Demand Response & DER Programs

…opt out at any time. They don’t have to sacrifice comfort to participate. Using WiFi and Smart Devices to Manage Energy Smart devices and WiFi have revolutionized how utility companies…

Why Utility Incentive Programs Matter

…that disruption on the greater community. That idiom has come to mean any institution that would disrupt the economy and the community, from banks to hospitals and certainly to utility…

Q&A With Mark Dyson, Managing Director of RMI’s Carbon-Free Electricity Program, on Virtual Power Plants & Beyond

…to: Catalog, research, and communicate virtual power plant (VPP) benefits Develop industry-wide best practices, standards, and roadmaps Inform and shape policy development Tell us what RMI sees as the barriers…

How Power Companies Can Harness Utility SaaS Products

…instances, consumers aren’t able to scale their products to meet their needs. For example, some computer types aren’t designed to be either modified or repaired, which has led to community…

Virtual Power Plants: Creating a New Culture of Energy Services

…Perhaps the most significant challenge to realizing these investments is neither technical nor financial, but cultural. For example, strategic investments in virtual power plant capacity in communities bearing the brunt…

How the Gravity Connect API® Enhances OEMs & DERMS Integrations

…low-cost, open-source tool to quickly and efficiently connect DER devices to utility DERMS. Open APIs and OpenADR No matter the type, every DER requires an API to communicate and share…

The Past, Present, & Future of Battery Storage

…manipulating and managing the potential of a stored electrochemical charge. Now, a few common storage types are: Compressed air energy storage – A battery that uses compressed air to store…