Demand Side Management to Achieve Zero Carbon Goals

Global Progress Toward Zero Carbon Gets Terawatt-Boost from Demand Side Management Programs Worldwide

As energy providers around the world strive to achieve aggressive carbon reduction goals, it is often new distributed energy resource (DER) technologies like solar energy, battery storage and electric vehicles that dominate the conversation. And while renewable energy and beneficial electrification are an essential part of the solution, smarter energy Read more…

EV Time of Use TOU Rate Design

Leveraging AMI Data for Successful Time-Based Rate Implementation, Load Shaping, and CX

AMI-Informed TOU Rate Programs in Practice: EV TOU Rates Effective load-shaping tools are becoming increasingly important as utilities continue to innovate their operations to maintain system-wide resiliency in response to evolving supply and increasing demand.  This urgent need to shift load is one of the major factors driving the transition Read more…

Avangrid EV Strategy

Avangrid: How to Know What to Expect When Expecting EVs

As electric vehicle adoption accelerates at an exponential rate, how can utilities maximize grid benefits, customer satisfaction and revenue? Scaling readiness for transportation electrification requires an intelligent, analytics-driven strategy. In the third episode of Bidgely’s 2022 Engage+ video series, host Neil Strother has a conversation with Charles Spence, Customer Programs Read more…

Bottom Up Grid Management

Harness the Power of Bottom-Up Grid Management

Load forecasting has always been a mission-critical discipline for energy providers. Accurate demand forecasting enables critical utility functions ranging from purchasing energy at a lower cost, avoiding black and brownouts, developing dynamic rate structures and implementing more effective demand response programs.  But as the grid grows exponentially more complex, accurate Read more…

AMI Data-Informed Rate Design

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative Demonstrates Power of Advanced Analytics-Based Rate Design

More than a simple optimization exercise, rate design requires a complex balancing act to cover the costs to reliably provide service, charge a fair and transparent amount to all customers, and not overburdening any specific customer. When analytics are applied to Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data, the resulting intelligence serves Read more…