"Smart Energy Summit" articles
Jacob Nielson , Business Development Leader for Emerson, answers industry questions prior to speaking at Smart Energy Summit in February:
What are the biggest opportunities for the smart home industry to work with the electricity industry?
There are major opportunities–especially now that some of the more energy-hungry industries are adopting smart technologies. For years upgraded lighting and upgraded HVAC systems have been the answer. Now the great...
Sujata Neidig , VP of Marketing at Thread Group , discusses the challenges the smart energy market is facing:
What are the major challenges that your business must address in 2015? 2020?
Interest in the connected home has been rapidly increasing, yet there are a few challenges that must be overcome in order to make the smart home a reality. First, a simple and reliable network must be put in place that will allow multiple devices to easily connect and work together...
Barry Haaser , Managing Director for the OpenADR Alliance and President at Lakeview Group, answers several industry questions about issues that are currently affecting the energy management market:
What do you think is the most challenging issue for your company as it relates to the residential energy management market?
The most challenging issue for the OpenADR Alliance involves development of automated demand response (ADR) programs by utilities based on the...
Gene Wang , CEO at People Power , responds to the industry question: “ What do you think is the most challenging issue for your company as it relates to the residential energy management market?”
An inconvenient truth about the average consumer today is that they are not passionate about inconveniencing themselves in order to save a few dollars. And they are generally not willing to pay money for a lower priority benefit of energy conservation. This was a tremendous...
The wave of smart products and smart home systems entering homes combined with the rapid introduction of software-based value-added services is out of sync with the slow and arduous utility pilot process. 2015 will bring innovation into the residential measurement and verification process. Data analytics based systems will provide tools such as disaggregation and weather normalization that can quantify savings for energy efficient products and services. Utilities need a measurement and...
Parks Associates announced new research finding at the 2014 Smart Energy Summit in Austin this week. The results of a new consumer satisfaction survey report that many consumers are nervous about switching to a variable rate or time-of-use (TOU) energy program, thinking that their energy bills will increase after doing so. However, once a household adapts to off-peak consumption patterns, their bills could actually decrease.
Additionally, Parks Associates research...
Residential demand response is in transition. Smart meters, participation in energy markets, and connected products are all forcing executives to consider new approaches and business models that take advantage of the new environment.
Smart meters and the associated meter data management systems enable utilities to create new DR programs that reward participation. At the Smart Energy Summit panelist will evaluate the impact of smart meters on DR programs and discuss the...
Parks Associates recently had an opportunity to talk with Stuart Lombard, CEO of ecobee. The highlights from that conversation, given here, are a preview of the insights that he will share during his keynote address at the Smart Energy Summit.
Open APIs - ecobee is one the first thermostat manufacturers to provide fully open APIs, giving public access to the full suite of ecobee capabilities, attracting over 200 developers who are creating solutions from a variety of verticals....
