Guernsey: Lack of smart meter data access throttles residential demand response
Dana Guernsey · The new wave of DERs · Oct 2, 2025 · at 27:11
Dana Guernsey is CEO of Voltus, discussing the hurdles facing distributed energy resource expansion with Shail Khan.
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“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 rate-based them, and then it's like, well, can we please use the data from them? But no in a shocking amount of territories, it's actually quite hard to Gain access to that even if you are the consumer.”
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