Posted August 28, 2024

Position Description

Seattle City Light’s Customer Energy Solutions Division is hiring a Research & Evaluation Analyst. The Division is looking for a Research and Evaluation Analyst who will complete a two-person evaluation team in the Strategy, Planning, and Evaluation group. Research enables City Light to stay on top of emerging opportunities, and evaluation entails rigorous review, monitoring, and verification of energy program impacts and other information. This position reports to the Strategy, Planning and Evaluation Manager.
 
Seattle City Light, a department of the City of Seattle, is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. Over the years we have worked very hard to keep Seattle's electricity affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound. Today, City Light is a recognized national leader in energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.

Job Responsibilities

Here is more about what you’ll be doing:  

• Serve as project manager and conduct evaluation of energy efficiency, renewables, demand response, affordability, and electrification programs. Plan and conduct analyses, and interpret, prepare, and present statistical reports substantiating evaluations in support of department programs and activities. 
• Manage large consultant contracts. Define scope of work, coordinate RFP processes, participate in selection and manage the work of independent contractors.
• Provide recommendations to modify and/or continue programs, pilots, and regulations.
• Present findings in orally and in writing.
• Provide technical assistance to design teams and planning committees.

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Posted August 23, 2024

BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Copper Labs, a utility hardware and software company whose patented solutions enable true interoperability for electric, gas and water meters, announced an upgraded web-based portal that provides unparalleled grid-edge visibility and deep customer engagement. This centralized and user-friendly resource lets utilities see near-real-time data from existing meters in their territory in a filterable map-based interface, allows for sophisticated and personalized customer outreach, and makes it easy to create behavioral load flexibility events in the moments that matter most.

"Virtually all other grid-edge solutions currently face significant hardware limitations, including reliance on expensive smart meters and the widespread use of proprietary communication networks," says Dan Forman, CEO of Copper. "Utilities shouldn't be held captive by a single meter type or vendor to get the visibility they need. Copper is the only solution that unlocks data from a wide array of meters, uses robust existing broadband networks, and facilitates a practical and cost-effective path to digital transformation for all utilities."

Because Copper's portal can uniquely bring together data from a mix of different meter types, vintages, and vendors, it offers unprecedented new opportunities to better understand the impacts of electrification pathways down to the customer level, support distributed energy resource (DER) adoption and management, and accelerate integrated electric and gas system planning efforts by making it easier to compare consumption data across resources. "With our powerful new portal, utilities can easily see trends across their territories or focus on particular areas of interest, such as neighborhoods where growing EV adoption may strain local distribution transformers," says Forman.

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Posted August 22, 2024

SEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES, August 2024 — Edo, a leader in energy and demand optimization solutions, proudly announces that its OpenADR 2.0b-certified VEN interface is now available. This certification from the OpenADR Alliance sets a new standard for seamless integration between grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings and utility operations. It marks a significant step in Edo’s mission to achieve efficiency, reliability, and decarbonization with Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). 

The OpenADR 2.0b certification enables Edo’s cloud-based platform to deliver superior performance by ensuring interoperability with utility demand response programs. By leveraging this technology, utilities can optimize the dispatch of grid-interactive efficient buildings as dynamic grid assets, thereby improving the efficiency and responsiveness of VPPs. 

“We’re thrilled to add OpenADR 2.0b certification to our portfolio,” said Sam Skrivan, Software Solutions Director at Edo. “This certification underscores our commitment to providing utilities with cutting-edge tools to manage grid demand effectively while enabling commercial buildings to play an active role in energy management.”

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Integration with Budderfly’s energy management platform enables VPP formation, creating new value for customers, stakeholders and utilities

Posted August 20, 2024

Shelton, Connecticut – August 13, 2024--Budderfly, the preferred sustainability partner for commercial businesses, today announced that it has acquired a grid-edge distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) from Sunverge Energy. Using Sunverge’s technology, Budderfly can aggregate distributed energy resources (DERS) across its sites, positioning it to create virtual power plants (VPPs) capable of providing flexibility to the grid, increasing resiliency for customers and growing new revenue streams. With greater control over its energy infrastructure value chain, from equipment installation to billing, Budderfly is creating a first-of-its-kind end-to-end VPP.

"VPPs are crucial for capitalizing on the opportunities of the energy transition. Through this acquisition, we are making this essential technology available to the middle market, allowing our customers to benefit from renewable energy and contribute to a more sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy future,” said Al Subbloie, founder and CEO of Budderfly. “This is a natural progression born out of the success of the Budderfly model, which has become synonymous with delivering sustainable efficiency outcomes to our stakeholders.”

By procuring and installing flexible load technologies like battery storage, behind-the-meter solar generation, and EV charging infrastructure at small- and mid-sized commercial buildings – Budderfly plans to enroll thousands of its customers’ sites in demand response programs over the next five years. Budderfly will also onboard several utility customers in Arizona, Maryland, the Northeast, and the Pacific Northwest, aligning with its long-term strategy to contribute to a more flexible, more stable energy grid, enabling substantial revenue opportunities through program incentives.

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