40^TH PLMA Conference Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

CLEAResult

CLEAResult is the largest provider of energy efficiency and demand response solutions in North America. Through proven demand side management strategies tailored to clients’ unique needs, CLEAResult combines the strength of our energy experts and innovative technology to help over 250 utilities change the way people use energy. CLEAResult is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has over 2,500 employees in more than 60 cities across the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit www.clearesult.com

EnergyHub

EnergyHub is the connected home solution for utilities. EnergyHub's Mercury DRMS allows utilities to partner with their customers and deliver more powerful demand response using connected devices, while our Bring Your Own Thermostat℠ service makes hundreds of thousands of existing connected homes available to utilities for demand response without a single truck roll. EnergyHub is an independent subsidiary of Alarm.com, the leading technology provider of connected home solutions www.energyhub.com

Honeywell Smart Energy

Honeywell Smart Energy, a global leader in intelligent grid solutions and connected technologies, enables utilities and distribution companies to deploy advanced capabilities that transform operations, reliability and environmental sustainability; while providing solutions that engage customers in more meaningful ways. www.honeywellsmartenergy.com

Gold Sponsors

Connected Energy

Connected Energy provides electric utilities with a suite of smart grid solutions that support advanced distribution automation from substations through customer premises. Our solutions collaborate across the grid, helping utilities increase efficiency and reliability to improve their financial, operational and environmental performance. Connected Energy combines our experience in applying smart grid solutions with our market-leading technology to successfully serve leading utilities. www.connectedenergy.com

ecobee Inc.

ecobee Inc. introduced the world’s first smart Wi-Fi thermostat and Room Sensor™ technology. The ecobee4 Smart Thermostat continues to enhance the customer experience with its built-in Amazon Alexa voice service and far-field voice recognition. ecobee’s commitment to enriching the customer experience extends to the relationship between utilities and their customers. We offer residential and commercial solutions that deliver meaningful savings without compromising comfort, with best-in-class customer service and insights into customer energy usage. Find out more at www.ecobee.com/utilities/

Enel X

Enel X is a global business leading the transformation of the energy sector, focused on delivering products and services that create new opportunities for customers to drive progress and discover new ways of using energy around the world. Enel X in North America is a leader in behind-the-meter storage and is the largest demand response aggregator in the world. Enel X’s electric vehicle charging station technology, called Enel X JuiceBox^®, and its companion Internet of Things platform Enel X JuiceNet^®, provide smart management of electric vehicle charging and other distributed energy storage facilities. www.enelx.com

Oracle Utilities

Oracle Utilities delivers Opower, the world’s most widely deployed utility customer engagement platform, and a market-leading Network Management System for advanced distribution operations. We help utilities reliably meet their demand side management objectives and build a clean energy future – with an integrated platform for managing demand and balancing the grid. We’re committed to helping consumers manage their energy use, to scaling adoption of efficient products and programs, and to transforming your customers and their homes into flexible grid resources. Find out how – visit www.oracle.com/utilities.

Silver Sponsors

AutoGrid

Autogrid builds software applications that enable a smarter Energy Internet. The company's suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid Flex has more than 2,500 megawatts of DERs under contract with more than 30 global energy companies around the world. The world's leading energy companies including National Grid, E.ON, BPA, FPL, SCE, Eneco, PGE, CPS Energy, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, NextEra Energy, and CLEAResult, rely on AutoGrid applications to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of connected energy resources. www.auto-grid.com

CPower Energy Management

CPower Energy Management creates demand-side energy management strategies for our customers to help them reduce energy costs, generate revenue, meet sustainability goals, and increase grid reliability. Because demand-side energy management is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor, CPower creates customized strategies consisting of the optimal combination of CPower Solutions, unique to each individual organization. cpowerenergymanagement.com

Eaton

Eaton's Energy Automation Solutions division provides a range of power delivery and reliability, automation and control, advanced metering and demand response solutions designed to increase efficiency and smart operations. The business serves customers in the utility, commercial, industrial, mining, renewable energy and other markets. www.eaton.com/smartgrid

Energy Federation Inc.

EFI empowers the relationship between utilities and their customers. With over 75 utility branded online marketplaces and the new rebate-as-a-service smartphone based tools, EFI engages, educates and moves customers to action meeting goals for energy savings. Serving more than 50 million consumers with disruptive technology and a proven engagement platform, EFI provides a personalized experience that results in high customer satisfaction and the adoption of needed energy savings technology. EFI’s high performing marketplaces have produced over $60 million in sales of energy efficient products nationally. EFI supports all online resources with an in-house call center staffed with experts in energy efficiency. EFI also designs and manages a variety of innovative incentive rebate programs from online to instant rebates available within retail locations. Approaching $2B in rebates processed, EFI continues to lead the way in rebate processing. www.shopefi.com/wholesale/

Franklin Energy

With over two decades of both energy efficiency and demand response experience, Franklin Energy designs and implements grid optimization programs for utility, state and municipality clients nationwide and into Canada. The firm’s expertise pinpoints goal-focused solutions for its clients and their customers across residential, multifamily, small business and commercial/industrial markets. As home of Efficiency@Work, Franklin Energy integrates all customer interaction including online application processing and in-field data collection through its technology suite. Franklin Energy provides education based programs and kits under our Resource Action Programs brand. www.franklinenergy.com

Google Nest

Nest and Google Home are now under one roof: Google Nest. Google Nest encompasses our hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from the Nest Thermostat to the Google Home speaker line. Our vision is the helpful home: to create a home that takes care of the people in it and the world around it. store.google.com/us/category/google_nest

ICF

ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) is a global consulting and technology services provider with more than 5,000 professionals focused on making big things possible for our clients. We are business analysts, policy specialists, technologists, researchers, digital strategists, social scientists and creatives. Since 1969, government and commercial clients have worked with ICF to overcome their toughest challenges on issues that matter profoundly to their success. Come engage with us at www.icf.com

Itron

Itron is a global technology company. We build solutions that help utilities measure, manage and analyze energy and water. Our broad product portfolio includes electricity, gas, water and thermal energy measurement and control technology; communications systems; software; and professional services. With thousands of employees supporting nearly 8,000 utilities in more than 100 countries, Itron empowers utilities to responsibly and efficiently manage energy and water resources. Join us in creating a more resourceful world; start here: www.itron.com.

Landis+Gyr

Landis+Gyr is the leading global provider of integrated energy management products tailored to energy company needs and unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid. landisgyr.com.

NTC

NTC's mission is connecting clients with schools, schools with students, and students with knowledge that empowers and inspires, NTC helps students and parents learn beneficial habits and create meaningful change in their lives and communities. nationaltheatre.com/ntccorporate/.

OATI

OATI provides innovative solutions that simplify, streamline, and empower the operational tasks required in today’s energy commerce and Smart Grid. Serving more than 2,000 customers in North America, OATI successfully deploys and hosts diverse mission-critical solutions committed to industry standards and stringent security guidelines. OATI is a leading provider of Smart Grid, Energy Trading and Risk Management, Transmission Scheduling, Congestion Management, Distribution, and Market Management products and services. www.oati.com

OpenADR Alliance

OpenADR Alliance The mission of the OpenADR Alliance is to foster the development, adoption, and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standards through collaboration, education, training, testing and certification. www.openadr.org

RF Demand Solutions

RF Demand Solutions provides design, construction, and management of wireless networks. Applications provided by RF Demand including Paging, WiFi, SCADA. RF Demand Solutions is the expert in the design and construction of wireless networks that support Comverge and Eaton Cooper devices. In fact, our networks control over 1 million such devices. www.rfdemandsolutions.com

Uplight

Uplight is the leader in Demand Side Management, Energy Analytics, Utility Marketplaces, Utility Personalization, and Home Energy Management, providing software and services to the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, with the mission of motivating and enabling energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. uplight.com

Promotional Partners

Energy Central

Energy Central has been a leading news and information provider for the global power industry for over 20 years. Today we are more than just a news provider, we are an online network bringing together the smartest people in the power industry to learn, share, and connect in a collaborative community environment. Join www.energycentral.com today and be part of a growing community of over 200,000 registered members.

Smart Grid Today

Smart Grid Today's mission is to deliver timely, unbiased, and comprehensive reporting on emerging trends, applications, and policies driving the modern utility industry. Smart Grid Today's signature format, developed by its founders with over 40 years in the trade news business, features highly concise and easy-to-understand news copy based on trusted reporting, exclusive interviews, informed analysis, and strategic insights that our subscribers rely on to succeed every business day. www.smartgridtoday.com/public/14day-Free-Trial.cfm to sign up for a 14-day risk-free trial today.

Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC)

The Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) is a nonprofit organization that works to learn the wants and needs of energy consumers in the United States, encourage the collaborative sharing of best practices in consumer engagement among industry stakeholders and educate the public about the benefits of the smart grid and smart energy technology. Learn more at smartenergycc.org