Solving the energy trilemma
Today, I was fortunate enough to talk on the closing plenary at AESP's 30th annual conference. Aside from framing my view of the next 30 years - always a fun exercise - I was asked to describe the next 30 years in a single word. This was not an e ...
While the Texas State Rodeo may not have been in town, the AESP provided a boot-stomping, cattle calling good time in the Alamo City. For four days, energy professionals from across North America gathered in San Antonio for the premier conference ...
More than ever, utilities and regulators around the world understand the need to better understand electricity and water demand patterns. Demand for both is soaring in most parts of the world and many systems face challenges in meeting that demand, e ...
Demand Side Management (DSM) programs provide utilities with established pathways to engage customers through a variety of value propositions to reduce energy costs and positively contribute to environmental sustainability. As DSM programs mature, ex ...
As DSM professionals we now have a wide variety of channels to available to us to deliver the energy efficiency message. These can include social media (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, et al.), direct and indirect contacts through various sales efforts, ...
Introduction Any change represents an opportunity, but it also comes with risk. Nobody wants to find out later that he should have done things differently. The need for change was one of the key themes at the 2015 DistribuTECH conference earlier thi ...
It has been a busy couple of weeks for me, closing the books on 2014, writing our retrospective reports, and comparing notes with my colleagues around the nation. And I am consistently hearing the not-so-subtle drumbeat about the monumental rise in a ...
2014 was an exciting year for our organization, as we completed our first successful year as DNV GL, which combines the strengths of DNV, KEMA, Garrad Hassan, and GL Renewables Certification. As 2014 is now officially over, we'd like to take a look b ...
Predictive analytics using geographic information systems (GIS) is a tool that can identify potential customers for utility demand side management (DSM) programs. The insights from this class of analytics come from developing statistical relationshi ...
I've been fortunate enough to work in the US and Europe in energy efficiency, as both a client and a delivery agent, consulting with utilities, the public and the private sector. When I first began working in the European market, the emphasis within ...