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Why I feel we have no DER/DR standards
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...
Don't we owe it to Victorians to explore becoming a Smart State?
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 not offering Critical Peak Pricing are we being unfair to the good guys?
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' and take part...
Does your organisational structure help or hinder your demand response efforts?
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,...
Does your head of demand response have what it takes?
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 'leadership'. As with the...
How do you know your DR program is heading in the right direction?
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...
Can you afford to take a wait and see approach with Demand Response?
When developing Demand Response strategies, we talk about knowing why you are embarking on such a journey, deciding what services you will introduce and how you will introduce them. We need to also talk about the timing and when these services will be scaled out. I...