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Dana Guernsey

CEO and Co-founder, Voltus · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dana Guernsey leads Voltus, a distributed energy resource platform and virtual power plant operator connecting energy assets to wholesale electricity markets. Before becoming CEO at Voltus, she managed large-scale demand response portfolios and market operations at EnerNOC, Ambri, and FirstFuel.

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2 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dana argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Guernsey: Up to 20% of grid capacity runs under 1% of time
“10, 20% of the capacity is built for less than one percent of the time.”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 39:00 The new wave of DERs

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Dana Guernsey on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Dana Guernsey said on Catalyst that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Guernsey: Lack of smart meter data access throttles residential demand response
“When I think about the growth of our residential portfolio and what's, I think you used the term rate limiting there it's the lack of access to, and I'm going to air quotes here for the listeners, smart meters, right? So we deployed all these smart meters, we …”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 27:11 The new wave of DERs
Insight
Guernsey: Co-locating capacity at grid constraints helps solve data center bottlenecks
“This notion of, like, on-site versus off-site can be a little bit more flexible if you're willing to take into account the fact that as long as you're co-locating at the constraint, that's solving the problem, and now you have more tools in your toolkit, inclu…”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 32:59 The new wave of DERs
Opinion
Guernsey: Virtual power plants deploy faster and cheaper than new gas plants
“It absolutely should be more affordable if the alternative is going out and building a new natural gas power plant. For one, not only are you going to, like, open up the catalog and see that it's backordered till twenty-twenty, or sorry, not twenty-twenty, twe…”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 37:52 The new wave of DERs
Insight
Guernsey: VPP strength relies on pairing assets with complementary operating constraints
“In many ways, that's the strength of the portfolio. You can take things that maybe have operating parameters and constraints and pair them with other things, or other customers that have similar but different constraints, and now you can respond to what the gr…”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 13:44 The new wave of DERs
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guernsey: Demand response has shifted from summer peaks to year-round dispatch
“One, like, this notion that, like, the summer hottest, peakiest day is, like, the end all be all. That, that's gone. That was one point oh. So, we have winter peaks, we have shoulder issues because of outages and things like that. And so, just even, like, acro…”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 18:13 The new wave of DERs
Assertion Supported
Guernsey: Up to 20% of grid capacity runs under 1% of time
“10, 20% of the capacity is built for less than one percent of the time.”
Dana Guernsey Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 39:00 The new wave of DERs

The other half of the tape: Dana Guernsey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on Catalyst. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The new wave of DERs Oct 2, 2025 23m
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