2013 Topics

• Consumer behaviors and lifestyle issues that affect adoption and usage
• Drivers and obstacles to adoption of energy-related products and services
• Strategies and tactics to engage consumers from utilities, service providers, and retailers
• Integration of energy control and solutions into existing solutions and related services
• Consumer segmentation, price sensitivity, and bundling strategies
• Competitive assessments of current industry participants: utilities, service providers, retailers, manufacturers
• Business opportunities within the value chains for emerging energy management solutions
• Partnership opportunities among service providers, utilities, manufacturers, and retailers to expand the market for energy management and residential demand response (DR)
• Utility communication approaches, including data ownership and privacy issues, and simplifying partner integration
• New energy management products and services, including impact of cable and telecom in this market
• Role of cloud-based products and services in energy
• Current smart grid legislation and regulation
• Smart grid applications, including DR programs and dynamic pricing
• Technologies utilities are using to provide value-added services to consumers
• Case studies of early utility successes, including actions to engage subscribers and enhance the stickiness of their services in competitive markets

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What You Will Learn...

• All perspectives on the market for residential energy management products and services
  • Consumers: price points, service bundles, perceived value
  • Utilities: AMI deployments, interfaces to third-party solutions, partnerships
  • Telecom and cable operators: value of home services within their offerings, unique value propositions
  • Security channel: strategies to integrate energy services, unique value propositions
  • Retail channel: selling home controls to the mass market
  • OEMs: adding connectivity to devices, new value propositions
  • Policy: impact of local, state, and federal policies and initiatives
  • Independent System Operator (ISO)/Regional Transmission Operator (RTO): changes in the demand response market
• Standards and interoperability: solutions that bring it all together
• New solutions: products, applications, and services that are creating value and innovative monetization opportunities
• Data analytics and cloud-based products and services
• The impact of factors like CE ownership on consumer energy preferences
• Specific features on energy management solutions and bundled services preferred by consumers
• Value propositions that resonate among consumer segments
• New business models for distribution channels: security, cable, telecom, utility, retail, HVAC