Solving the energy trilemma
Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS), and home automation more broadly, have the potential to transform how energy services are delivered and which energy services matter most. Energy service could stop being valued as a commodity that utilities sup ...
Getting different home appliance and other devices to talk to each other in order to achieve energy savings, along with other important benefits, is a major challenge, and certainly not one that utilities could be expected to achieve on their own. On ...
Electric utilities have key strengths that they can use to promote the deployment of Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) and strong channels to engage consumers on energy related topics. Utilities tend to focus less on understanding the market pote ...
For utilities, Home Energy Management technology builds into and enhances the performance of the smart grid by opening up or improving the management of distributed energy resources (DER) - both distributed generation (e.g., the decision to direct PV ...
In the residential electricity market, utility operations have focused historically on the utility side of the meter: provide enough supply to match the current demand and make sure there are no transmission and distribution interruptions. Efforts to ...
Electricity competition and new residential smart energy offers are intersecting. As utilities build metering infrastructure, many organizations are entering the home energy tech business. What residential offer adoption can be expected? KEMA is la ...