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Customer Engagement

4 Ways to Improve Customer Engagement for Utilities

Engaging customers can seem like an insurmountable challenge for some energy companies, given the nature of the industry. As a […]

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Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
Gravity Connect

API Showdown: Gravity Connect v. OpenADR

Whether you’re developing new tech or crafting something physical when building anything nothing beats real-world, hands-on experience. At Virtual Peaker, […]

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Ed Blayney
Project Manager

Report: Redefining Demand Response for Winter Peaks

In early 2022, Snohomish County Public Utility District (SnoPUD) concluded the first full winter of its demand response and time-dynamic rates pilot, called FlexEnergy. It serves as a case study on the challenges of implementing winter-peaking programs and offers encouraging lessons for other utilities.

Virtual Peaker & Tricklestar Integrate

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

Affordable Wi-Fi-Enabled Water Heater Controllers Lower Energy Rates and Boost Utility DERMS and ToU Programs Louisville, KY and Grand Rapids, […]

Utility Customer Service

A Tale of Two Cities: Steps to Enhance Utility Customer Service

Beyond the anecdotal evidence, I accrued working as a customer service professional for a large IOU operation, finding broad data […]

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Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
Empower Innovation Forum 2022

Recap: The Virtual Peaker Empower Innovation Forum 2022

It’s the Friday after the Virtual Peaker Empower Innovation Forum 2022, and while we’d love to take a short break […]

Virtual Peaker Team
Virtual Peaker Team
electric cooperatives & member services

Why Member Services in Electric Cooperatives are Critical

If you’re reading this, you might already know that rural electric cooperatives are driven by a focus to support the […]

Rachel Sanford
Rachel Sanford
Marketing Coordinator
Virtual Peaker and Armada Power integrate.

Virtual Peaker & Armada Power Announce Fully Integrated APIs

Integration Creates Easy, Affordable Solution for Utilities to Upgrade Standard Water Heaters to Smart Devices Louisville, KY and Columbus, OH […]

Jacob Clark DERMS Suite

Team Q&A: Jacob Clark – Junior Software Developer

From developing and streamlining our distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) solution to finding opportunities to curb personal waste, Jacob […]

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Bill Burke
Founder & CEO
Server Farms

How Server Farms, Bitcoin Mining, & NFTs Challenge the Grid

Server farms, Bitcoin mining operations, and NFT processing centers are major electricity consumers. At times, they can challenge the grid’s […]

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Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
electric vehicles

Electric Vehicles by Air, Sea, & Land: EVs & the Supply Chain

Last year, the Biden administration announced steps to limit the production of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2030, a decision that has […]

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Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
Decarbonization

Why Utilities Have Struggled to Hit Decarbonization Goals

Back in 2015, David Roberts wrote in Vox that “power utilities are built for the 20th century. That’s why they’re […]

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Bill Burke
Founder & CEO

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