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Why are you not creating a joined-up demand management strategy?
A few weeks ago I launched a diagnostic to provide you with insights and recommendations on how to improve your demand response program. The results are starting to reveal some exciting, and somewhat scary, patterns. One such...
Is this the elephant in the room for demand response?
I first became aware of the impact peak demand has on the price a consumer paid for electricity about eight years ago. It was during the period I was given the opportunity to lead Smart Energy for a large Asian utility. I have been fascinated with the topic ever...
The NW: 5 steps to successfully scaling out demand response
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 your help and...
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...
Have you incorporated the concept of ‘learn-fast’ into your demand response program?
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,...
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,...