March 2021   


Full House: Residential DR Retention and Recruitment Strategies and Challenges

March 2021 hot topics

It has been a wild and wooly year for managing residential demand response programs. In addition to normal program management we have had the additional challenges of our customers and ourselves having to shelter-in-place, as well as the difficulty predicting changes in customer behavior this new normal brings.

Join the Customer Engagement Interest Group to learn more about challenges your utility peers have faced and some of the approaches they have taken to keep their programs fully subscribed and delivering results while customers’ homes are more fully occupied.

Source: PLMA Customer Engagement Interest Group
Type: Webinar  

 

DERs in the New Energy Economy

DERs in new economy

Woods Mackenzie estimates the U.S. could have up to 380GW of DERs connected to the grid as soon as 2025. This represents tens of millions of DERs entering the ecosystem across many DER asset classes including EV-to-grid and grid-to-EV charging and interconnection, smart solar inverters, energy storage, microgrids, and many other intelligent devices.

Together, these will create potentially billions of DER-to-grid transactions. One likely result will be the need for a new transaction infrastructure. Join our moderator, PLMA Secretary Joe Childs of Eaton, PLMA's Global Load Management Co-Chair Ross Malme, and our special guest speakers to explore what this infrastructure might be, its benefits, and challenges.

Source: PLMA Load Management Dialogue featuring Peter Kelly-Detwiler, NorthBridge Energy Partners; Rick Kornfeld, Kitu Systems; Bob Manning, Avangrid; Tony Johnson, SCE; and Ross Malme of Bowen Capital Advisors
Type: Webinar