4. How would you
grade your utility’s
preparedness to manage the
smart grid/smart meter
data influx?
4
Trouble making sense of the data
17% (2013)
Percentage who said completely
prepared:
Q:
A:
Source: Oracle
5. Difficulty recruiting customers for programs
CASE IN POINT: Utilityco’s pricing program
$37M spent to enroll the first 22k customers
77%
of UtilityCo customers would
benefit from a CPP rate
1.5%
of UtiltyCo’s customers
enrolled in CPP Rate
DISILLUSIOMENT
6. Giving up altogether
» $138M SG Investment Grant for
AMI
» Installing additional devices at
>$1200 lifetime cost
» Only 14,000 homes enrolled
after 3 years of recruitment
CASE IN POINT: Utilityco’s device program
Source: NV Energy 2014 Annual Report
14. Adoption:
100% of homes
Savings Opportunity:
Broad-based kW/home
Adoption:
5% - 15% of homes
Savings Opportunity:
Deep kW/home savings
Direct Load Control:
Expensive and hard to scale
Traditional Direct Load Control
Opower’s
Behavioral Demand Response
Snapshot:
Snapshot: