Smart Energy Insights

Connectivity and the combined data from all customer interactions are transforming businesses and marketing programs, and especially have the ability to impact the utility and retail energy provider markets. As the breadth and depth of smart products enter the market grow, energy providers have the opportunity to leverage those products for demand response programs and to accelerate adoption through energy efficiency programs.

Concerns related to loss of control and co-marke ...read more

Energy data is a key element of any energy management solution. Technology for monitoring and analyzing home energy data has developed to provide increasingly valuable, actionable insights for consumers and energy providers. Familiarity with energy programs is still generally low, with 20% or less of U.S. broadband households being “very familiar” with various energy programs.

25% of broadband households indicate they would participate in an energy program offered by their e ...read more

Utilities are moving forward with numerous pilots, testing new business models and new approaches to marketing, installation, and partnerships. This session at SES featuring executives from FP&L, OGE, Tendril, Westar Energy, and Wright – Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association discussed the lessons learned from these innovative efforts and highlights recent success stories in the industry. Top 10 takeaways from the session included:

1. Market adoption is moving from the i ...read more

For energy providers, the convergence of smart energy and smart home opportunities is a story of frenemy stakeholders. Myriad service providers and device manufacturers hope to protect and grow their core businesses while exploring new ways to further directly monetize their customer base or work with adjacent partners to provide mutually smart energy solutions.

Getting from here to there for all stakeholders is the challenge. Despite the value proposition of saving money an ...read more

Parks Associates held its 7th annual Smart Energy Summit February 22-24 at in Austin, TX. At the annual conference, Parks Associates analysts, media, and industry leaders examined the expanding market for energy solutions and home controls and its impact on utilities, service providers, retailers, manufacturers, and consumers.

Jeremy Warren, Chief Technology Officer of Vivint, provides key insights into the growth of energy and IoT for Parks Associates' Smart Energy Summit:

What do you think is the most challenging issue for your company as it relates to the residential energy management market?

A fragmented national landscape makes it difficult to build a consistent and scalable consumer value proposition and business model. Because different utilities/jurisdictions have their own set of rul ...read more

Erin Keys, Director, Business Development & Strategy at Comverge, answers several industry questions for the Smart Energy Summit: 

What do you think is the most challenging issue for your company as it relates to the residential energy management market?

Reframing the discussion around deploying outcome-oriented, at-scale solutions versus feature-focused pilots.

What are the major challenges that your business must address in 2016? In 2020?

We must continue to ...read more

Dave Oberholzer, VP, Business and Partner Development at WeatherBug Home, answers several key industry questions for the Smart Energy Summit hosted by Parks Associates:

What do you think is the most challenging issue for your company as it relates to the residential energy management market?

We have defined an approach that truly delivers on the promise of IoT. Our integrated solution, which combines a variety of sensor data, our data processing capabilities and ability ...read more