by Wayne Pales | Mar 7, 2019
Later this year I plan to publish my third book, working title “The NW: Five steps to successfully scaling out demand response”. If you are in the demand response space, especially if you are a utility trying to implement demand response, I’d love...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 28, 2019
I continue to receive great feedback on my recent paper that explores the concept of Victoria leveraging its investment in its advanced metering infrastructure to become a Smart State. One piece of feedback, with quite a few ‘likes’ from our community, challenged my...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 21, 2019
Earlier this week I released a paper exploring the possibilities of Victoria becoming a Smart State. The idea was the result of discussions with a range of peers since I first wrote a blog on the topic in July 2016. I released the paper hoping to create a...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 14, 2019
During the heat wave a few weeks ago I remember receiving the below text message from my electricity retailer preparing me for a demand response event: I have long been an advocate of demand response, and here I was being told I could finally ‘do my bit’...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 6, 2019
Fail-fast, learn-fast, same same, it just depends if you are a glass half empty or glass half full sort of a person. The concept, coming from the world of start-ups, has now been part of the mainstream business lexicon for a few years. In the world of demand response,...