New 'Smart Panels' Give Homeowners Real-Time Control of Their Energy Use
Posted July 25, 2023
Below is a snippet from a WSJ article that quoted PLMA member company, Lumin.
...For homes already equipped with solar and a backup battery that stores power to use in the event of a grid outage, smart panels can also obviate the need for additional batteries—a huge cost savings since backup batteries range in price from $7,000 to $14,000. Lumin’s dashboard, for example, includes a feature known as “dynamic whole-house backup.”
Basically, it works like this: Since Lumin’s smart panel knows how much power every appliance in the house needs to operate, a homeowner can access the app and switch appliances on and off to match the power state of the existing battery, thereby preserving battery life while keeping critical appliances running, says Alex Bazhinov, president and chief operating officer of Lumin, a seven-year-old Charlottesville, Va., company.
Another benefit: Because of smart panels’ grid interactivity, installing one can also eliminate the need of a homeowner for an expensive service upgrade from their utility. Most American homes operate on a 100-amp system, but increasingly, says the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Dyson, consumers are adding appliances and features—hot tubs, heat pumps, EVs—that require a 200-amp service.
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Virtual Peaker Launches Electric Vehicle-Managed Charging Solution Giving Utilities the Ability to Leverage All Distributed Energy Resources in One End-to-End Platform
A comprehensive, integrated approach increases grid flexibility for utilities and opens doors for multi-device, multi-OEM demand response programs to meet energy needs and minimize EV grid impacts.
Posted July 25, 2023
Louisville, KY – July 25, 2023 – Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based SaaS company that empowers modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, today launched its electric vehicle (EV)-managed charging solution, solidifying its leadership position as a holistic distributed energy resource (DER) platform designed to help utilities harness the collective energy of all DERs in one end-to-end platform.
“As electric vehicle adoption continues to grow, we’re committed to ensuring our platform can meet that growth for innovative utilities by helping mitigate EV load congestion and delivering value to both the customer and the grid,” said Virtual Peaker Founder & CEO, Dr. William “Bill” Burke. “We’re proactively focusing on creating a single, scalable solution to increase adoption of distributed energy resources programs and help utilities reach their goals more quickly and efficiently.”
Virtual Peaker’s EV-managed charging solution delivers value to utilities by enabling them to build more comprehensive demand response programs and better manage EV grid impacts—and future-proofing their distributed energy resource management strategies.
This new solution allows utilities to:
- Utilize both EV telematics data and internet-connected EV chargers
- Manage multi-device, multi-OEM demand response (DR) programs in one, unified platform
- Build customer trust with a privacy-focused telematics approach
- Support EVSEs, both V1G and V2G capabilities, all in one platform
- Gain real-time visibility into EV charging behavior and energy consumption
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ILLUME Advising Job Opportunity: Clean Energy Program Evaluator/Senior Evaluator
Posted July 25, 2023
Job Summary Pair your expertise in program evaluation, social science, and energy/utility industry experience to lead ILLUME’s evaluation and research studies. The energy industry is rapidly transitioning, increasing the importance and value of program evaluations within the industry. ILLUME seeks an individual who brings deep understanding of research methods, client and team-centered focus, keen attention to detail, and is excited by the intricacies and challenges of all aspects of managing and leading projects end-to-end. ILLUME is a fast-paced environment known for its exciting cutting-edge projects and deeply supportive team. In this role, it will be important to be able to juggle multiple priorities to deliver exceptional work to our clients.
THE CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM EVALUATOR (MANAGING CONSULTANT) WILL:
Help clients understand their path and progress toward a clean energy future. Support clients in meeting their energy, decarbonization, and customer engagement goals. Apply evaluation expertise to confidently navigate the technical, policy, program design, and customer considerations and to thoughtfully identify opportunities for clients to enhance program designs and impacts.
Use and create frameworks for measuring success. In addition to leveraging existing evaluation guidance and protocols, help our team and clients expand on best practices to assess emerging interventions.
Demonstrate exceptional end-to-end project management and leadership. Lead and own planning, budget management, reporting and successful delivery of projects, including team and client guidance and communications.
Mentor project team members to grow the knowledge and expertise of the ILLUME team. Provide in-project training and clear feedback to ensure professional development for our multidisciplinary project teams. Specifically, this role will help to train analysts and consultants around best practices and methods in evaluation.
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ILLUME Advising Job Opportunity: Consultant/Senior Consultant - Building Science
Posted July 25, 2023
Job Summary If you have a background in engineering or building science and an interest in joining a passionate and collaborative team working for a clean energy future, our Building Science Consultant position might be the role for you.
The Building Consultant will:
Help us expand the impact the built environment can create in an equitable clean energy future. The Building Science Consultant will help research and assess emerging and existing building appliances, technologies, systems, and designs to help our clients identify opportunities for their customers to save energy, and improve comfort, health, and safety.
Help grow our work in building system R&D, electrification and decarbonization. The Building Science Consultant will help ILLUME expand our ability to help our clients track and follow trends in building science and technology, set up emerging technology pipelines and to design and evaluate field and full-scale pilots of emerging technologies.
Bring their curiosity and love of problem-solving to their work every day. The Building Science Consultant will turn data and analysis into insight, analyzing why things happened and how changes to installation and application might affect outcomes. You’ll describe building science or engineering concepts in writing and presentation formats to a wide audience and ultimately use data to inform critical client decisions.
Be successful working across multiple projects. The Consultant will be responsible for supporting engineering or building science projects and/or tasks, including data collection and analysis for projects including impact evaluations of pilots and programs and projects designed to support electrification strategy and development, including pipeline to portfolio transfer for emerging technologies. The Consultant may also support conducting technical interviews with equipment contractors, building professionals, and utility staff; designing evaluation plans and approaches; analyzing data and reporting on findings with clarity and coherence.
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