Solutions: Grid Participation
Manage the grid together.
For a century, the relationship ran one way: the utility generated and the customer consumed. The next century looks more like a partnership. Customers shift load, utilities defer infrastructure spend, and costs go down for everyone. If customers can’t or won’t shift, utilities build for the peak, and everyone pays for it.
The flexibility exists. The participation doesn't.
Electrification and data centers are driving load growth your infrastructure plan didn't anticipate. The flexibility to absorb it is sitting in your customers' garages, water heaters, and thermostats, and reaching it is no longer the hard part. Telematics has become a commodity; any vendor can read the car.
When DR and VPP programs underperform, the customer experience is usually the reason: enrollment is confusing, the value is hard to see, and customers drop out after the first event. Every business case assumes a participation rate. The levers that move it are conversion and capability: joining in minutes, device coverage broad enough that eligibility rarely disappoints, and a payout that arrives on time and explains itself. That layer is what we build.
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No AMI, No Problem
A device-level EV tariff program VPPSA runs across 11 municipal utilities with no advanced metering, delivered at 2.5% the cost of the alternative.
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Solutions to customer engagement
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EE & Electrification
One place to make sense of the devices, rebates, and programs a customer has to choose between.
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Rate Engine & Billing
Customers won't choose a rate they don't understand. Education, comparison, and enrollment, computed from real interval data.
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Grid Participation
DR, VPP, and managed-charging experiences that customers understand, enroll in, and stick with.