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Range Wars: EV Infrastructure is Coming

competitive with combustion engines soon. With costs decreasing across multiple metrics, consumers are turning to practical concerns to determine their vehicular purchases: how can they stay charged? Range Anxiety As…

Press Release: Belmont Light (MA) partners with Virtual Peaker on residential demand response rewards program

…Light Energy Specialist Ben Thivierge at bthivierge@belmontlight.com or visit www.BelmontLight.com About Belmont Light: Belmont Light has been powering the Belmont community since 1898 by delivering safe, reliable electric power service,…

How To Endure The Next Hurricane Season With Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)

…Grid DERMS, a distributed energy resource management system used to control utility-owned energy assets like community solar or battery installations. Grid DERMS have proven reliable as a resource for grid…

Why Educating Utility Customers is Crucial to Demand Response

…utility company control my thermostat.” As a former customer service rep at a utility operation, this question was a common refrain when demand response was mentioned, and understandably so. As…

How To Build A Demand Response Program

…to ensure that your team moves smoothly from the idea stage to market. Open Communications With All Stakeholders – It’s not just your team that needs to know what’s happening….

5 Things to Know Before Launching Your First Demand Response Program

and scale of your pilot to selecting the right OEM device partners for your community. These obstacles are compounded by the regulatory and bureaucratic logistics that require both community and

How To Market Your Utility Programs & Enhance Enrollment

…to help your operation, the community, and the environment, but perhaps the most important thing you can communicate to potential utility program participants is what they get out of it….

BESS Practices: Our Guide to Battery Energy Storage Systems & Demand Flexibility

…(TDC)—a novel combination of Grid-Edge DERMS, AI, model predictive control, and forecasting software—optimizes batteries to create a reliable outcome for grid operators. Put another way, with TDC, grid operators can…

3 Reasons Demand Flexibility Programs Should Support Complex Utility Rate Design

…prolonged outages. More recently, income-based electric bills have become part of the regulatory debate, reigniting interest. More common examples include time-of-use (ToU) rates, a rate structure that complements demand flexibility…

The Environmental Impact of Combustion vs. Electric Vehicles

…all of the factors when choosing between combustion and electric cars. Let’s look at the environmental challenges that both create and how these difficulties will impact the electric grid. Sustainability…

Virtual Peaker Launches Real-Time Smart Device Arbitrage for Utilities

…cloud-based real-time controller that already sets Virtual Peaker apart from its competitors. “Our energy arbitrage module is a real game-changer,” says Bill Burke, CEO of Virtual Peaker. “This new approach…

Basic Steps To Enhance Utility Cybersecurity

…– The denial-of-service cyberattack overwhelms an operating system with superfluous commands or traffic, exhausting computational bandwidth and rendering a system unable to comply with legitimate user requests. Unfortunately, this is…