by Wayne Pales | Sep 6, 2023
As directors, you are under pressure from your executives to leverage emerging technologies. Technologies such as blockchain, the internet of things and artificial intelligence. All offer exciting opportunities. All are being explored by your competitors. The...
by Wayne Pales | Aug 30, 2023
As a director, the breadth of your responsibilities expands far beyond what was necessary even a decade ago. You are now expected to be across digital and cyber security, as well as environmental and social issues. Such a rapid growth in responsibilities is placing...
by Wayne Pales | Nov 1, 2020
Like most energy companies, your organisation is likely to be in the early stages of a Digital Energy Transformation. As CIO, it is likely you are trying to come to terms with how to support the businesses desire to leverage distributed energy resources whilst...
by Wayne Pales | Nov 1, 2020
The Digital Energy Transformation requires your IT Leaders to have a new suite of capabilities. It is these IT leaders who make the dozens of decisions every day that determine how your Digital Energy Transformation is implemented. Ultimately it is these...
by Wayne Pales | Nov 1, 2020
In December 2019, two months after leaving my role as GM of Technology Strategy at the Australian Energy Market Operator, I started the research on my third book, a follow up to ‘The Digital Utility’. At that time, the working title was ‘The Distributed...
by Wayne Pales | Apr 4, 2019
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 pattern is the omission of a Utility...
by Wayne Pales | Mar 28, 2019
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...
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...
