This new initiative harnesses Virtual Peaker’s cutting-edge distributed energy platform, empowering OMPA’s 42 municipally owned utilities to offer residential electric customers new energy-saving opportunities.

Posted January 19, 2024

January 18, 2024; Louisville, KY – Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based SaaS company empowering modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, announced a strategic partnership with the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA) to launch Turn Down the Watts, a new bring-your-own-device (BYOD) thermostat program to help reduce energy consumption during periods of high demand.

OMPA is a collaborative organization that serves as a wholesale power provider, supporting 42 municipally owned electric utilities in Oklahoma. Its members serve roughly 104,000 residential electric meters. OMPA’s structure and mission are centered around community ownership, joint action, and ensuring the well-being of its member municipalities and their residents.

Through this partnership with Virtual Peaker, OMPA’s 42 municipally owned utilities will be able to offer their residential electric customers the opportunity to enroll and participate in the program and earn incentives designed to support energy-saving practices and reduce overall utility system costs during peak grid demand periods.

Virtual Peaker’s distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) suite, Shift, and its engagement suite, Relay, are central to the program. Shift offers utilities innovative technology with a patented cloud-based real-time control system that automatically adds intelligence to “smart” devices to shave peak load, reduce costs, and execute controlled or behavioral demand response programs. Relay is an automated customer engagement suite that unifies and personalizes the energy customer experience with a connected approach to managing distributed energy resources (DERs).

“We are thrilled to collaborate with the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority on this innovative program. By providing municipally owned utilities and residential electric customers with the opportunity to save energy through qualifying smart thermostats, we empower them to positively impact both their energy bills and the environment,” said Colin Lamb, Vice President of Delivery, Virtual Peaker.

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Posted January 19, 2024

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a security/DevSecOps focus to join the DevOps team and help enhance the security of our infrastructure and software development lifecycle. This role will be hands-on with our cloud infrastructure and development toolchain, and you will get to focus on implementation to drive meaningful long-term improvements. You will have the opportunity to guide best practices for the entire EnergyHub engineering team and build and automate processes to enable fast and secure application delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Keep raising the bar for EnergyHub’s infrastructure security to ensure customer data remains protected.
• Enable our engineering team to be highly productive, safely. Make it easy to do things the right way.
• Help guide the team in design and implementation of secure cloud infrastructure as we roll out improvements and new features.
• Identify and implement new controls to enhance our defense in depth.
• “Shift left” on application and container security by moving security testing farther upstream in the delivery process.
• Operate and automate our vulnerability management programs for applications, containers, and VMs.
• Manage core security tools and technologies such as SIEM, cloud security posture management, etc.
• Participate in cross-company security and compliance management efforts in which DevOps plays a key role.
• Partner with our parent security team (EnergyHub is an independent subsidiary of Alarm.com) to leverage additional tools and resources and capitalize on our collective strengths.
• Other duties as assigned

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Posted January 18, 2024

About Us: The Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire (the Coalition) is a democratically governed and forward-thinking Joint Powers Agency dedicated to launching and operating Community Power Aggregation (CPA) programs. We represent 30% of New Hampshire's population with more than 50 members serving almost 60 communities. We are dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to take control of their energy future, reduce their carbon footprint, and create a clean and resilient energy system. Our mission is to foster resilient New Hampshire communities by empowering them to realize their energy goals. If you want to make real and sustained changes to how communities interact with energy, working with a collaborative and energetic team, this is the place for you. 

Position Overview: As a member of senior management, the Director of Energy Programs and Projects will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing strategies related to energy resource programs and projects. You will be tasked with driving rate innovation, beneficial electrification strategies, local storage, renewable projects, and energy procurement initiatives using data driven analysis to support the mission and strategy of CPCNH. The position will direct (Sr.) Energy Analyst and work closely with the CEO and the senior management team, including a Director of Administration, a Director of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, and a Director of Member Services, the Director will contribute to the organization's commitment to empowering communities for a sustainable energy future.  

Responsibilities:

1. Rate Innovation

2. Flexible Load and Distributed Energy Optimization:

3. Data Analysis and Programming:

4. Grant Management:

5. Other Duties:

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Posted January 18, 2024

About Us: The Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire (the Coalition) is a democratically governed and forward-thinking Joint Powers Agency dedicated to launching and operating Community Power Aggregation (CPA) programs. We represent 30% of New Hampshire's population with more than 50 members serving almost 60 communities. We are dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to take control of their energy future, reduce their carbon footprint, and create a clean and resilient energy system. Our mission is to foster resilient New Hampshire communities by empowering them to realize their energy goals. If you want to make real and sustained changes to how communities interact with energy, working with a collaborative and energetic team, this is the place for you. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Data Analysis, Programming, and Evaluation
• Market Research and Trend Analysis
• Financial Modeling and Forecasting
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Other Duties

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