ILLUME Advising Job Opportunity: Clean Energy Program Evaluator/Senior Evaluator
Posted July 25, 2023
Job Summary
Pair your expertise in program evaluation, social science, and energy/utility industry experience to lead ILLUME’s evaluation and research studies. The energy industry is rapidly transitioning, increasing the importance and value of program evaluations within the industry. ILLUME seeks an individual who brings deep understanding of research methods, client and team-centered focus, keen attention to detail, and is excited by the intricacies and challenges of all aspects of managing and leading projects end-to-end. ILLUME is a fast-paced environment known for its exciting cutting-edge projects and deeply supportive team. In this role, it will be important to be able to juggle multiple priorities to deliver exceptional work to our clients.
THE CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM EVALUATOR (MANAGING CONSULTANT) WILL:
Help clients understand their path and progress toward a clean energy future. Support clients in meeting their energy, decarbonization, and customer engagement goals. Apply evaluation expertise to confidently navigate the technical, policy, program design, and customer considerations and to thoughtfully identify opportunities for clients to enhance program designs and impacts.
Use and create frameworks for measuring success. In addition to leveraging existing evaluation guidance and protocols, help our team and clients expand on best practices to assess emerging interventions.
Demonstrate exceptional end-to-end project management and leadership. Lead and own planning, budget management, reporting and successful delivery of projects, including team and client guidance and communications.
Mentor project team members to grow the knowledge and expertise of the ILLUME team. Provide in-project training and clear feedback to ensure professional development for our multidisciplinary project teams. Specifically, this role will help to train analysts and consultants around best practices and methods in evaluation.
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New 'Smart Panels' Give Homeowners Real-Time Control of Their Energy Use
Posted July 25, 2023
Below is a snippet from a WSJ article that quoted PLMA member company, Lumin.
...For homes already equipped with solar and a backup battery that stores power to use in the event of a grid outage, smart panels can also obviate the need for additional batteries—a huge cost savings since backup batteries range in price from $7,000 to $14,000. Lumin’s dashboard, for example, includes a feature known as “dynamic whole-house backup.”
Basically, it works like this: Since Lumin’s smart panel knows how much power every appliance in the house needs to operate, a homeowner can access the app and switch appliances on and off to match the power state of the existing battery, thereby preserving battery life while keeping critical appliances running, says Alex Bazhinov, president and chief operating officer of Lumin, a seven-year-old Charlottesville, Va., company.
Another benefit: Because of smart panels’ grid interactivity, installing one can also eliminate the need of a homeowner for an expensive service upgrade from their utility. Most American homes operate on a 100-amp system, but increasingly, says the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Dyson, consumers are adding appliances and features—hot tubs, heat pumps, EVs—that require a 200-amp service.
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Virtual Peaker Launches Electric Vehicle-Managed Charging Solution Giving Utilities the Ability to Leverage All Distributed Energy Resources in One End-to-End Platform
A comprehensive, integrated approach increases grid flexibility for utilities and opens doors for multi-device, multi-OEM demand response programs to meet energy needs and minimize EV grid impacts.
Posted July 25, 2023
Louisville, KY – July 25, 2023 – Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based SaaS company that empowers modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, today launched its electric vehicle (EV)-managed charging solution, solidifying its leadership position as a holistic distributed energy resource (DER) platform designed to help utilities harness the collective energy of all DERs in one end-to-end platform.
“As electric vehicle adoption continues to grow, we’re committed to ensuring our platform can meet that growth for innovative utilities by helping mitigate EV load congestion and delivering value to both the customer and the grid,” said Virtual Peaker Founder & CEO, Dr. William “Bill” Burke. “We’re proactively focusing on creating a single, scalable solution to increase adoption of distributed energy resources programs and help utilities reach their goals more quickly and efficiently.”
Virtual Peaker’s EV-managed charging solution delivers value to utilities by enabling them to build more comprehensive demand response programs and better manage EV grid impacts—and future-proofing their distributed energy resource management strategies.
This new solution allows utilities to:
- Utilize both EV telematics data and internet-connected EV chargers
- Manage multi-device, multi-OEM demand response (DR) programs in one, unified platform
- Build customer trust with a privacy-focused telematics approach
- Support EVSEs, both V1G and V2G capabilities, all in one platform
- Gain real-time visibility into EV charging behavior and energy consumption
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ecobee Offers California Residents the Opportunity to Save on Rising Energy Costs
Customers who enroll in the Cali ecosave program can purchase an ecobee smart thermostat starting at $10 to support a more reliable electrical grid
Posted July 20, 2023
TORONTO – July 19, 2023 – ecobee, a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems (NYSE: GNRC), today announced it is offering eligible customers in California’s hottest climate zones a $10 ecobee3 lite (regularly $149.99) or a $149.99 ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium (regularly $249.99) when they enroll in the company’s Cali ecosave program. Three thousand discounted thermostats are available, while supplies last.
Cali ecosave is a voluntary community energy savings program from ecobee that offers customers an incentive in return for helping to save energy during periods of high demand and helps support a more stable and reliable power grid in local communities.
“At ecobee, we are committed to offering innovative smart home solutions that address the current problems customers are facing, such as rising energy bills and increasing strain on the power grid caused by extreme heat,” said Chris Carradine, EVP of Energy at ecobee. “We’re eager to offer heavily discounted ecobee smart thermostats to eligible Californians to help them conserve energy and save money on their summer cooling bills without sacrificing comfort.”
Extreme weather can lead to grid instability and the risk of outages or brownouts in local communities, along with higher energy bills. According to the California Independent System Operator's outlook for summer 2023, the “grid remains vulnerable to high loads and availability of imports during widespread heat events, especially in late summer.” California residents currently spend about $220 per month on electricity, which adds up to $2,640 per year – 25% higher than the national average electric bill.
As part of California’s move towards cleaner energy, utilities in the state have transitioned customers to time of use rates, which make electricity prices more expensive during peak hours of the day, and lower at non-peak times. ecobee smart thermostats take into account energy prices, local weather, home energy performance, and custom comfort preferences to automatically cool homes when energy is less expensive and avoid cooling when energy is more expensive, all without impacting comfort. Customers who take advantage of this offer will be pre-enrolled in Cali ecosave helping them save money on their energy bills and also helping reduce stress on the power grid during peak times.
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Eversource Energy Job Opportunity - Energy Efficiency Consultant - Demand Management (Hybrid)
If you’re passionate about applying your work experience and skills to impact sustainability at scale, join a team of professionals motivated by this common commitment to the environment and a clean energy future.
As an Energy Efficiency Consultant for Demand Management, you will deliver and create innovative customer programs to reduce demand during peak times, helping to maintain a stable electrical grid. In this role, you will work with our growing Demand Response (DR) team focused on all aspects of standing up and delivering DR and electric vehicle (EV) managed charging programs for residential and commercial, electric & gas customers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Your focus will be on helping to drive new initiatives forward while expanding existing programs to meet decarbonization goals across Eversource’s tri-state service territory.
This is a hybrid role. The first three months are full time in the office.
Essential Functions:
- Provides direction to business partners and/or technical project expertise to customers for successful delivery of customer-facing DR programs, tracks progress toward program goals and metrics.
- Drives the integration of strategic activities between the customer, other utilities/ program administrators, advisory consultants, and vendors/contractors.
- Collaborates with internal stakeholders within the energy efficiency organization, in addition to Eversource’s system planning, grid modernization, solar, interconnection and rates teams.
- Coordinates the development of documents and plans necessary to meet compliance with regulatory filings and oversight of ratepayer funded Energy Efficiency and Grid Modernization programs.
- Provides guidance and support to junior team members. Trains internal and external stakeholders on demand response and managed charging program strategies, processes, and techniques.
- Executes the budgeting, invoicing, evaluation, and tracking of expenses and energy savings of assigned offerings; contributes to the development of RFPs for contracted services.
- Demonstrates proactive thought leadership within vertical sector through developing and designing technology implementation strategies/initiatives.
- Represents Eversource in regulatory hearings and technical sessions
- Presents as a subject matter expert, representing Eversource in public forums, national energy efficiency conferences and/or stakeholder events (e.g. PLMA, AESP, and DistribuTECH).
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