Demand Management
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As Southern Californians prepare for summer, Southern California Edison (SCE) is asking customers to be especially conservation-minded to help keep the electric grid stable and reliable during hot weather when energy use spikes, particularly without the power generated from the San Onofre nuclear plant.
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The permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear plant leaves significant unanswered questions about the future of the energy supply in Southern California, the head of the state's Public Utilities Commission acknowledged Tuesday.
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This summer, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is reminding customers that, while adequate electricity supplies are lined up to meet customers' energy needs, conservation and demand response will still be vital during extremely hot weather or an unplanned power plant outage or transmission line emergency.
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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a not-for-profit, member-owned electric cooperative based in Glen Allen, Virginia. ODEC’s core business is generating, purchasing and delivering electricity to wholesale customers, primarily their member systems. For this installment of our utility2utility article series, we spoke with Erin Puryear, manager of member services and energy innovation planning, about customer service, air conditioning and direct load control (DLC) initiatives.
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+the success of analytics still comes down to people
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+But customers don’t care
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+PG& E, Austin Energy Show off their programs
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As utilities look more to empowering the consumer, they’re growing a number of in-house building efforts from smart thermostat initiatives to efficiency programs. Kevin Meagher, vice president of smart homes for Lowe's (yes, the place where you buy your gardening tools) says utilities are making all of this consumer engagement just too darn hard.
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Senior Systems Engineer Feras Karim of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) will speak to government concerns, possible solutions, and successes in working toward sustainability at this year's Power Up Energy Expo, to be held at the Emerald Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., March 18-20.
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Renewable energy experts Heidi Larson and Sean McPherson of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) will speak on emerging markets and operations and maintenance (O&M) considerations at the annual SOLAR Power Gen conference to be held at the San Diego Convention Center, Feb. 13-15.
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Minnesota utility director discusses what's available
Smartphone as life's remote control? Not so fast, readers say. Here's one municipal utility director's approach to finding devices that work for understanding home energy use and managing it.
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An engineer and a consumer electronics show
The mainstream media notices "smartphone as life's remote control" at the Consumer Electronics Show and presents home energy management concepts and technology without mentioning utilities. Need I say more?
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Institute focuses on behavior studies to ID gaps
A better grasp of who participates (and why) in voluntary pricing, energy feedback or control technology pilots and programs could improve energy efficiency efforts and lead to smarter investments in grid modernization, according to an EPRI report.
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Before 2002, Texas looked like the rest of the United States—at least, as far as electricity was concerned. There were monopoly utilities, vertically constructed and vertically managed dotted across the landscape, a mirror to other geographies, whether coastal or bread basket: Back then, all utilities looked pretty much alike. But, unlike the rest of the U.S., Texas is now a self-contained competitive market that has pushed the focus horizontally out to the Texas consumer across the state. And, the tech benefits have responded to that growing market.
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'Smarts' overrated, some say; others envision symbiosis
Discussions about grid hardening and resiliency have gone in every direction: smarts should give way to traditional measures such as aggressive vegetation management, smart meters did play a role in post-Sandy restoration and end-users should play new roles if they expect to survive more extreme weather events. We discuss these ideas with our readers.
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Fun just might work for killing vampire waste
Portland General Electric's new series of videos aimed at residential audiences hit the perfect pitch on friendly, simple advice for home energy effiiciency and customers actually log onto PGE's site to add their two bits. It's a start.
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SGCC study shows education increases favorability
The more consumers learn about grid modernization, the more they like it and support it. But the needle measuring consumer awareness hasn't moved in a year, despite widespread smart meter rollouts. That's good news and bad news in one.
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If used, apps open door to engagement and benefits
In the past year that the so-called "Green Button" open standard for energy use data has been available, various parties have developed consumer-oriented apps that make it easy and fun to engage and manage home and business energy use. That's got to be a good thing.
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Dominion Virginia Power on the basics
At last week's Utility Analytics Week, one session featured Dominion Virginia Power's Brandon Stites, director of energy conservation and advanced metering solutions. He explained the basic approach the utility is taking to using meter data to improve system efficiencies and, therefore, please customers.
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