Carrie Carnes

Director of Customer-to-Grid Solutions, APS · 1 appearance on the record.

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Carnes leads strategy, execution, and innovation for APS's customer-sited energy technologies and virtual power plant programs, including the Cool Rewards smart thermostat aggregation. Over a 20-plus-year career at APS, she has held operational and leadership roles across real-time energy trading, regulation, procurement, and customer technology.

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Assertion Supported

Carnes: Arizona Public Service's virtual power plant nears 200 megawatt capacity

“So today we're nearing 200 megawatts in our virtual power plant. The bulk of that, as Seth said, is thermostats. By far this summer we achieved 163 megawatts with the thermostats.”

Carrie Carnes Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 7:50 Frontier Forum: Why utilities should go big on VPPs

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Insight

Carnes: Modern virtual power plants allow precise scheduling unlike legacy demand response

“This isn't kind of the old demand response where you just push a button and then, like, you know, whatever you got. We're able to really kind of plan what load profile we want to provide, and we can schedule that accordingly. We can schedule those devices acco…”

Carrie Carnes Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 18:21 Frontier Forum: Why utilities should go big on VPPs

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Carnes: Arizona Public Service VPP avoids expensive real-time power market purchases

“We also view our virtual power plant as a significant saver for our customers, essentially, right? We didn't have to go to the market and buy, Expensive power on the real-time market. And we didn't have to start a traditional power plant or conventional genera…”

Carrie Carnes Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 5:26 Frontier Forum: Why utilities should go big on VPPs