Thermostat
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Price-Wright: American consumers will reject utility control over home thermostats
“I do think though, okay, pushing back on that, like, I think that the, American consumer will fully organ reject that level of that dictation over how they use that.”
Yeagerson: Aggregated EV fleets will become highly dispatchable grid capacity resources
“If you have a million thermostats and you've done it 20 times, then actually it's more dispatchable than a discrete peaking resource. And I think you're gonna find that with vehicles as well. It's gonna be very fungible, it's gonna be very predictable, we're g…”
Kann: Thermostat grid value cannot support multiple layers of intermediaries
“The amount of economic value you can extract from a thermostat in response to grid signals is not nothing, but it's not enough to allow for, you know, three different intermediaries to take a slice of the pie.”
Fadell: Nest included a custom screwdriver with its first thermostat
“When we shipped our first thermostat, we shipped the very first thermostat, we included a very expensive tool inside the package. And it was a screwdriver with changeable bits so that when you got it right out of the, you know, of the box, you could start moun…”