Home Energy Management

Consumer energy bills have increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing many consumers to work and educate at home. Twenty percent of US broadband households report COVID-19 has increased their interest in a smart home solution that manages their energy usage, cost, and comfort, and 15% report their interest has increased as a result of COVID-19. Join Parks Associates' first Smart Energy Summit session,  Impact of COVID-19: Consumer Behavior and Energy Management , on...

Smart home industry players recognize an opportunity to offer home energy and HVAC monitoring services built around smart thermostats, as well as added connectivity in HVAC systems. New services are also expanding beyond energy, including security and other home service offerings. Don't miss the Smart Energy Summit session Home Services: Rethinking Utility Revenue Models  on February 23 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. CT moderated by  Patrice Samuels , Senior Analyst, ...

Parks Associates announces early  sponsors for its 2021 Smart Energy Summit, including Bidgely , Austin Energy , and Flo | AddEnergie . The Smart Energy Summit offers a unique combination of industry expertise and extensive consumer research and analysis, ensuring sponsors are in front of a high-level audience unavailable anywhere else within this market. It will feature speakers from Uplight, Austin Energy, FLO | AddEnergie, GE Lighting, a Savant company, Bidgely, Cox...

Smart home devices, smart appliances, and energy systems are increasingly integrated into residential energy management programs. Smart thermostats, the most adopted category of smart home products, have created opportunities for utility energy efficiency and demand-response programs while solar, batteries, and clean energy services will leverage smart home technology in the future. Parks Associates’ 2020  CONNECTIONS™ Community  is a virtual conference series and...

Parks Associates recently hosted its annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin, TX. The summit brought together industry professionals from both the smart home and energy management spaces. Analysts and executives discussed several key industry topics, including consumer engagement with utility energy-efficiency programs. According to research by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), energy-efficiency programs are the lowest cost energy resource available today....

Parks Associates is excited to feature Abhay Gupta from Bidgely as a keynote speaker during our eleventh annual Smart Energy Summit ! He will be speaking on Wednesday, February 19, at 9:45 am, and will be discussing how providers can win the customer mindshare by becoming the trusted energy advisor on areas such as electrification, peak demand management, energy efficiency, and customer satisfaction and can confidently act as a conduit to connect their customers with the other services...

Adam Justice , Founder and CEO of  ConnectSense,  will be participating in the Energy Management Platforms: Adding Value session at the  Smart Energy Summit  on Tuesday, February 18 at 1:00 pm. This session addresses the platforms that add value through the user experience and available data analytics. He will be joined by: Shawn Barry , VP Strategic Sales,  Alarm.com Roger Gregory , VP, Product,  Ezlo Innovation Christopher...

Dan Forman , CEO of Copper Labs , shared his thoughts with us on how to increase consumer engagement ahead of the eleventh annual Smart Energy Summit . He will be participating in the session, Effective Approaches to Demand Response: Next Stage of Engagement on Tuesday, February 18 at 10:30 am. The following will also be joining him on the panel: Eric Arnold , Residential Energy Efficiency Program Implementation Manager, Georgia Power Sweta Hari , Director, Product...