- Increased customer engagement and participation in their own energy consumption (and the increased revenue this engagement promises through value-added services)
- Greater grid resiliency through well-managed integration of distributed energy resources (solar and wind, etc.) into grid operations
- Broader opportunities to participate in the ISO market systems and monetize new value streams
- Potential elimination of power outages due to stored onsite backup power
- Control of energy use through smart home systems, smart appliances, instant digital communication with utilities and service integration
- Better management of billing, including savings generated by using electricity when it’s most economical, and payments from utilities for power generated in homes and sold back to the grid
- Customer-sited (behind-the-meter) intelligent integrated energy storage and controls must be used to facilitate integration of renewables into the grid and maximize the value of these distributed energy resources, creating shared value for consumers, providers, utilities and society as a whole.
- The focus in choosing the new technologies to accomplish NY REV’s universal goals should not be on the components – the old “bits and bytes” obsession of the PC-wars days – but, as it were, on the operating system and the apps. That’s where true intelligence lies.