In the early days of EV adoption, DMV data served as a popular way for utilities to get insights about how many of their customers were EV drivers. But because DMV data quickly grows stale, it has become unreliable as adoption rates increase. Its lack of granularity also fails to provide the customer-level driver data that utilities really need for successful EV programs. The other common EV data source is telematics, in which data is harnessed from the vehicles themselves. This is a powerful data source, but because drivers have to opt-in to provide their data, the number of telematics data points is very limited. In this 1-minute video, hear from Maria Kretzing, Director of Innovation at Bidgely, about how smart meter analytics provide the broadest and most granular data set available to equip utilities with the higher value insights they need to target and engage with individual EV drivers in a meaningful and personalized way.
Knowing that no two customers are the same, utilities have to avoid the trap of playing whack-a-mole by offering undifferentiated programs and hoping for effective outcomes. Driving meaningful programmatic ROI requires knowing the load and appliance use of each household, and achieving this is more accessible than one might think.
In this video, Chief Revenue Officer of Bidgely, Gautam Aggarwal, discusses how to think big, start small, and scale fast to achieve stronger results.
Heat pumps are an important part of the electrification story because heating and cooling is such a large load on the grid.
Most utilities have targets to put a certain number of heat pumps in the field, but they're all struggling because the economic story doesn't work for consumers that easily. If I have a fully working heating or cooling system, the motivation for me to go replace that with a heat pump is very low.
Identifying customers with inefficient systems, who would benefit fastest in terms of return on investment, is going to accelerate heat pump adoption.
Bidgely's CEO and Cofounder Abhay Gupta explains how technology can help accelerate heat pump replacement with a clear financial ROI equation for consumers.
Watch the highlights from ‘Becoming a Digital Utility' aired as part of the Distributech Plus webinar series. This webinar features executive perspectives from Ameren's Tara Oglesby, VP Customer Experience, and Rob Childs, VP Products and Innovation, in a guided discussion led by Bidgely's CEO, Abhay Gupta, as they explore critical insights on how leading utilities can adopt new technology and leverage analytics to elevate the customer experience.
Want to drive heat pump adoption and electrification across your customer base?
In this 1-minute, ungated video, Bidgely Chief Revenue Officer Gautam Aggarwal shares three key factors: identify, engage and inspire.
Mass marketing falls short when trying to drive electrification through heat pump adoption, delivering generic pitches that don’t connect with broad audiences.
Instead, utilities need to identify the best customer targets and then engage them with personalized messages that resonate with their motivations, inspiring them to take action.
Electric companies often offer all customers the same load shift incentives; however, not all customers can offer the same value back to the grid. By using enhanced analytics, electric companies can design their EV programs from a cost-per-car to a cost-per-kW value model, optimizing programs and increasing ROI.
Learn more in this 1-minute video featuring Head of Innovation, Maria Kretzing.
Many utilities’ strategy for engaging EV owners is: email-blast and bribe with incentives.
Bidgely Director of Innovation, Maria Kretzing, lays out a better, data-driven, and individualized approach to finding and engaging EV owners on your grid in order to more agilely shift load from EVs.
Enjoy this replay of her brief keynote at the Energy Thought Summit (ETS22): “Get Shift Done: Revolutionizing EV Load Shift, Program Optimization, and Grid Reliability”
Digital transformation is underway in the countries of the Gulf Cooperative Council, and clearly, data is the new oil.
Saudi Arabia has rapidly deployed 10M smart meters in one and a half years. United Arab Emirates is deploying both smart electric and water meters. Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Oman and more are turning to AMI data to transform the management of their most precious resources ... energy and water.
They are moving rapidly to not only capture smart meter data, but also to put it to use in areas such as:
These outcomes are now possible thanks to AMI data, and AI-powered energy intelligence is helping these countries use their new smart meter data to make these goals a reality.
Hydro One is leveraging behind-the-meter data to better understand how individual usage patterns impact its feeders and stations, and develop non-wires alternatives to manage load. Dhaval Patel describes how this approach is helping the utility manage electric vehicle adoption and the growing popularity of heat pumps by enabling more accurate load prediction and the ability to identify constrained areas before they impact the grid.
