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Brown: Individual AI adoption equals hundreds of millions of new HVACs
“Like if you think about the idea that maybe as each individual having kind of an AI co-pilot, that's the equivalent of like having hundreds of millions of new HVAC systems all of a sudden being put onto the grid.”
Ben Brown May 6, 2025 ▶ 2:22 Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
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Brown: Large VPPs remain predictably stable even with individual customer control
“When you give individuals control, large, long system, and you have hundreds of thousands of customers or a million customers, you know, stochastically we can predict, you know, how these things will perform in aggregate. And so actually having control the ent…”
Ben Brown May 6, 2025 ▶ 12:30 Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
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Brown: Customer thermostat control drives higher demand response enrollment and retention
“When we first launched rush hour awards, 12 years ago, a lot of the intent there was to say, Hey, if we could prove out that customers with more control, the idea that they can always change the thermostat, adjust, always get to a different comfort set point i…”
Ben Brown May 6, 2025 ▶ 4:41 Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
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Brown: Utilities require 25 to 50 MW to consider resources meaningful
“Unless we're talking, you know, in the 25 to 50 plus megawatts in terms of actual resource, it's harder for energy partners to see it as meaningful”
Ben Brown May 6, 2025 ▶ 21:20 Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
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Brown: AI enables predictive home thermal modeling and grid congestion management
“And that has evolved a lot, obviously, over the last 15 years, where now the capabilities of anticipating when electricity prices are going to be going up or down, having unique insight into, in terms of, like, the thermal model of your home, having unique ins…”
Ben Brown May 6, 2025 ▶ 1:38 Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
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