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ENERGY CONSUMERSSmart Grid …

from the Wrong Side of the Meter

ENERGY CONSUMERSSmart Grid …

from the Wrong Side of the Meter


February 2-3, 2011 – Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, FL

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Who pays the bills in the Electric Market?

What do these Consumers want?

60% by Small Commercial, Local Business and Residential Consumers

Energy Management and Savings – as much as they can get – Conservation all the time – 8,766 hrs/year

Disconnect between Energy Consumers and Utilities

But most Investor-owned Utilities don’t support overall “Energy Conservation”,

unless mandated by regulators or public policy – because it conflicts with their business model.



Whose interests shape Electric Market Economics?Large Investor-Owned Monopoly Utilities

How do most large Utilities think of “Conservation”? Peak Reduction - “Demand Response” - during 100 hours per year

Realities of Today’s Electric Market

So there are Market Incentives for Demand Response - limited though large in total - but there is little monetary

support for Energy Conservation or Sustainability.

The conflict between the needs of Energy Consumers and the business model of large Investor Owned Utilities

creates a huge unmet demand for effective Consumer Energy Management.



Consumers have the power to influence Public Policy and Regulation –

if they are informed and choose to exert that power.

Because they Vote!

Why are Consumers Important?

Consumers must be educated, organized and empowered with

solutions they can understand and use.



Very Large Markets

US Energy Consumer Communities• 20 million Apartments• 100 Million homes • 20 million locally-owned businesses



Reliable and efficient electric supply

via a “Smart Grid” is critical to the entire

Global Economy and to Human Culture.

Why is Smart Grid important?



What Utilities said: “Smart Meters will save you money”.

What Utilities meant – “Your bills won’t go up as much as they might have, because we’ll get better data and more control.”

What Energy Consumers thought: “Smart Meters will make our bills go down”.

That didn’t happen – bills went up to pay for Smart Meters, and Consumers rebelled – lawsuits, accusations of RF

contamination and meter errors – all signs of eroding trust between Utilities and Energy Consumers.

What Utilities said: “Smart Meters will save you money”.

What Utilities meant – “Your bills won’t go up as much as they might have, because we’ll get better data and more control.”

What Energy Consumers thought: “Smart Meters will make our bills go down”.

That didn’t happen – bills went up to pay for Smart Meters, and Consumers rebelled – lawsuits, accusations of RF

contamination and meter errors – all signs of eroding trust between Utilities and Energy Consumers.

“Smart Meters” Tale of Good Spin gone Bad



(1) The Wrong One: If the benefits of Smart Grid accrue only to the Utility, and are not equitably shared with Energy Consumers, their votes will eventually “kill” critical Smart Grid initiatives and incentives.

(2) The Right One: An effective user-friendly approach that provides real savings for Consumers can result in broad adoption of energy management solutions, greater overall efficiency and increased voter support for Smart Grid.

Two Reasons Consumer Energy Management may be the “Killer App” for Smart Grid



More Carbon emissions are created from the generation and use of electricity in

buildings and homes than from cars and trucks combined.

Why does it matter?

America depends more today on Electricity than on Oil.



Most Americans today would choose to conserve energy and water.

They want to save money on their energy bills, and to reduce their own carbon footprint.

Who cares?



Sustainability today is where Recycling was 15 years ago –

and rapidly gaining broad public support.

Prove it!



Consumers need Energy Management and Conservation that is

easy, painless and inexpensive.

But they don’t really know what to do, or how to do it,

and they have no readily available tools or solutions.

So what’s the Problem?



It’s 5.15 pm. Mr. Jones just got home. His last meeting was long and he’s running late.

The house is too hot, the wash hasn’t finished, and it’s his night to make dinner.Mrs. Jones will be home in 20 minutes.

All of a sudden, he notices a red light flashing on the “utility dashboard” in the kitchen, and a message that says

electricity cost has been 75 cents per kilowatt hour since 4 pm. That must be a lot – otherwise the red light wouldn’t be flashing – but what is a kilowatt hour anyway? And what does that have to do with dinner?

Leaving the house and taking his wife out to eat is not an option.They’re on a tight budget.

So what do they do?

The Problem for Mr. & Mrs. Jones …



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