Winners of the 20th PLMA Awards for Innovations in Flexible Load Management Announced at the 47th PLMA Conference in Memphis, TN

Six innovators recognized for 2022 initiatives to effectively manage end-use energy loads

Posted May 9, 2023

Memphis, TN – May 9, 2023 - PLMA (Peak Load Management Alliance), the voice of load management practitioners, today announced the winners of its 20^th Awards at the 47^th PLMA Conference. This annual awards program recognizes innovative approaches to flexible load management, honors the practitioners who develop and launch them, and follows up with a detailed exploration of each winner’s work in the form of a 1-hour educational webinar which is offered at no charge to all industry stakeholders.

These 20^th Award Winners were selected for the learnings and outcomes of their initiatives:

• Consumers Energy with Sagewell for “The PowerMIDrive Program”
• South Maryland Electric Co-operative with ICF for “The FlexTemp Pilot”
• Salt River Project with EnergyHub, Google Nest, and TechniArt for “The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers”
• Rocky Mountain Power for “The Wattsmart Battery DR Program”
• CPS Energy with EnergyHub for “The FlexEV Smart Rewards and the FlexEV Off Peak Rewards Programs”
• So. California Edison with GridX and Oracle for “The TOU Transition”

“Each spring, PLMA honors load management practitioners who have created ground-breaking incentive programs (‘Pacesetters’), or who have implemented leading-edge technologies (‘Pioneers’), or who have excelled in extraordinary customer engagement (‘Thought Leaders’),” explained PLMA Awards Co-Chair Peter Bergeron of CPower. “Their initiatives, successes, and lessons learned provide valuable perspectives for consideration and adaptation by other energy professionals."

“With the involvement of more than 15 volunteer judges, all of whom are PLMA member practitioners, each award nomination is carefully evaluated by a group of industry peers using a rubric methodology,” said PLMA Awards Co-Chair Kevin Knight of BGE. “The award-winning programs each demonstrate effective approaches to meeting peak energy loads while helping to support a stable, DER-integrated electric grid.”

The PLMA Award Series of live webinars will be hosted from May through September 2023, and will also be published on PLMA’s YouTube channel for the benefit of energy professionals everywhere. The webinar schedule will be published on PLMA’s Calendar in May 2023.

About PLMA
PLMA curates high quality, peer-selected, field-tested information and case studies on flexible load management, demand response, and DERs, for the benefit of energy practitioners globally. A 501(c)(6) non-profit association founded in 1999, PLMA serves over 170 member organizations and many thousands of stakeholders. As the “Voice of Load Management Practitioners,” it seeks to advance practical applications of dynamic load management and distributed energy resources by providing a forum where members educate one another and explore innovative approaches to program delivery, pricing constructs, and technology adoption. Learn more at www.peakload.org and PLMA’s LinkedIn DR/DER Group page.  

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