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,...
by Wayne Pales | Dec 12, 2018
We hear a lot about the need for utilities to ‘act like a start-up’. To create innovation practices. To ‘fail fast’ or as the more upbeat of us like to call ‘learn-fast’. I have been an advocate of this for years. Acting like a start-up is great to get things going,...
by Wayne Pales | Nov 22, 2018
In recent weeks, I have introduced you to the CLASS framework, designed to help you with your demand response journey. Through a series of posts, I explained that the first step is to obtain ‘clarity’. The next step in the CLASS framework is...
by Wayne Pales | Oct 18, 2018
Let’s look back on your DR journey so far…. You have spent time defining why your organisation is exploring demand response, and you have a vision that it will be a core part of your business operations at some point in the future. You are piloting a range of demand...
