electric utilities

“My, I was on the line with my CTO the other day, and we are now making a tool so that some of our customers, which are these electric utilities, Can use chatbots to configure software that lets them communicate with DER and procure services from them.”

“And the goal, I think, is by 20, 25, 26, right, when OPG is in full construction for there to be 20 orders that come in, right, and I think I think once that happens, then I think all the electric utilities will come very quickly, because they have a huge amou…”

“Historically, the action and the money and the competition was at the bulk part of the system, and so the last mile was sort of the sleepy last mile infrastructure. That's about to invert, where you have all this activity, you have mobile batteries, you have e…”

“Now I would say 10 years ago, there's probably like 10%. I think we're probably maybe, you know, up to 30% of the systems that are fully built in the distribution.”

“Not many utilities have their secondary modeled. Not many utilities know exactly which customers are connected to which transformer and which transformer is connected To which circuit, and which circuit is connected to which substation.”

“Because the thing that I think people that work in this industry understand, but most people don't understand, is when a utility says that they don't have power, they don't mean that most of the time there's not power. They just mean there might be a handful o…”

“One, Everything needs to be opt out. This notion that we need to spend 700 dollars to, like, talk to people and beg them to opt into something is looney tunes. Like, when you hook up something, it's automatically opted into a VPP, and then we should give you a…”

“We will see a more abundance of technology-specific rates. I'm thinking about heat pumps, batteries. Certainly we have EV rates are quite ubiquitous at this point.”