"smart grid" articles

New announcements recently within the energy management industries continue to underscore the opportunities for new products and services to help reduce energy consumption.  Currently, only a modest percentage of broadband households report using renewable power, but Parks Associates research shows there is a widespread desire to use clean energy and a reasonably broad willingness to pay more for it. Over 40% of broadband households would prefer to live in a community-powered...

As part of Parks Associates’ connected home and smart energy research, the firm asks consumers about electric vehicles, and recent results showing an unchanged market year over year with 7% of broadband households having at least one electric vehicle, have aligned with general downturn in the automotive industry as adoption stalled in 2020. Parks Associates reports that only 15% of US broadband households indicate intentions to purchase an EV in 2021. Among consumers who do not...

Parks Associates continues its 2021 virtual Smart Energy Summit with a session on April 28, MDUs: Leveraging Proptech for Smart Energy Management . Sce Pike, CEO and Founder, IOTAS , will join other industry leaders during the session as an interactive panel member of Scaling Up: The Role of Smart Home Tech in MDUs and will address energy management solutions adopted in the MDU and multifamily environment, including new builds and retrofit, and successful strategies and...

Purchase intentions for distributed energy resources have steadily increased. Distributed energy resources management system (DERMS) can play a vital role for utilities as they manage traditional capabilities and distributed energy resources, like solar and energy storage. On February 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Parks Associates is hosting its  DERMS: Solar, Storage and Microgrids  session, featuring visionary speaker  Manish Pant , Executive VP, Home and...

On August 25, Samsung and NET2GRID announced a partnership that brings advanced energy management features to the smart home. The solution provides insights on energy use in the home along with tips to save energy. The energy monitoring solution will also leverage Samsung smart appliances, HVAC systems integrated with SmartThings, and the Ynni platform to facilitate behavioral and automated demand responseutility programs. Since Q4 of 2018, smart home tech giants have put more focus...

Parks Associates is supporting Utility Cloud 2020 , a conference surrounding the topics of integrating cloud solutions to manage the influx of large volumes of data in a dynamic grid environment. This event takes place September 15-17, 2020, in Amsterdam. Drawing together utility software, system and transformation leads, this 3-day case study driven program provides an intensive review of the latest cloud technologies, strategies and solutions to manage an ever-increasing data...

Parks Associates is excited to feature Abhay Gupta from Bidgely as a keynote speaker during our eleventh annual Smart Energy Summit ! He will be speaking on Wednesday, February 19, at 9:45 am, and will be discussing how providers can win the customer mindshare by becoming the trusted energy advisor on areas such as electrification, peak demand management, energy efficiency, and customer satisfaction and can confidently act as a conduit to connect their customers with the other services...

Adam Justice , Founder and CEO of  ConnectSense,  will be participating in the Energy Management Platforms: Adding Value session at the  Smart Energy Summit  on Tuesday, February 18 at 1:00 pm. This session addresses the platforms that add value through the user experience and available data analytics. He will be joined by: Shawn Barry , VP Strategic Sales,  Alarm.com Roger Gregory , VP, Product,  Ezlo Innovation Christopher...