Q So, Sadia, you have, uh, over your career gone from building Renewable power plants to product management in wind, uh, for large wind turbines to deploying distributed resources. Um, what insights do you have about DERs now, now that you've been in this field for a while, that you didn't appreciate before?
A The customer engagement piece of it, you know, because I think when I started my career, we, I was focusing primarily on large utility scale, round-the-meter assets, and, you know, building that out. The National Solar Mission was announced back in 2009, and the very first, ah, plants that got built under Tata Power, which is where I was working, that, all of that was happening at the time, right? But now when you're looking at a lot of the, ah, innovation, the growth, The activity, the dynamism in the industry, it's all behind the meter. And anytime you're going behind the meter, as Apoor said, you are, um, touching something that's personal to a customer, right? But where the machine learning and AI piece comes into it is that we think about this as a network of distributed DERs that need to be orchestrated and managed, uh, to deliver flexibility. Now, whether that's an EV, Whether that's a smart thermostat, a water heater, a behind-the-meter storage, a microgrid, it's how do you, how do you do this consistently? How do you account for behavioral impacts? How do you use all of this data that you're getting back from the assets to be able to predict what you'll get, to be able to deliver it for network management use cases, for the system level use cases on extremely hot days or cold days, um, and then also as an alternate source of supply, which is where the virtual power pla…
AI assessment note: “The customer engagement piece of it, you know, because I think when I started”