Duke Energy

“Duke Energy said at a public event that they are now going to require all new hyperscale loads above a hundred megawatts that participate in demand response.”

“That is in contrast to some other plans that I've seen where we're saying like, let's build out twenty million dollars worth of software infrastructure before we even stand up a program, and that's backwards.”

“I've talked to our energy control center director around, like, what would it take for us to be integrated into the energy management system? Where, you know, is that what this looks like when you actually have parity with power plants? And the answer is yes. …”

“If I look at my level zero switches, and I don't mind calling them level zero a couple years ago, we would run them for three or four hours at a time, and customers would get very hot. Now we run them one hour at a time, and customers don't leave the program f…”

“We just deployed about a 120 megawatts from kind of a traditional thermostat program layering in batteries. So we're sort of stacking up these resources to both firm the resource while growing it.”

“And during those two weekends, we called almost all of our winter programs.”

“People make fun of me because we have a million switches in the field. And the vast majority of them are one way.”

“We have a million customers who participate in our programs with us. We've got two gigawatts across all the utilities in the winter and two and a half in the summer.”

“Brought together the partnerships with aggregators like Energy Hub, as well as our local trade allies and other stakeholders who were interested in that. And 18 months later, we've got 45 megawatts of it, and it's a great program.”

“Well, I only know my utilities very well. And I'd say we are like a strong level two. And as you heard before, obviously we've got a lot of devices in zero and one.”