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Scott Engstrom

Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer, GridX · 1 appearance on the record.

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Engstrom co-founded GridX in 2010 to provide enterprise rate analytics and design software for utilities implementing complex rate structures. He is recognized for his work helping utilities manage rapid load growth through demand flexibility and modern rate design.

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2 predictions · 2 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name 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 Scott 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
Engstrom: Over 60% of US customers have TOU access, under 10% enroll
“So we know just across the country that today, well over 60% of customers could be Enrolled in a time for use rate, but there's only about seven or, you know, less than 10% are enrolled.”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 24:23 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition

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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 Scott Engstrom on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Scott Engstrom said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Engstrom: Utilities will increasingly adopt device-specific rates for heat pumps and batteries
“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.”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 39:02 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
Insight
Engstrom: Decarbonizing energy requires grid operators to secure demand-side flexibility
“Taking carbon out of the supply of energy will only work if grid operators have the flexibility with respect to demand to meet this new supply stack that, that utilities are building.”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 2:03 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Engstrom: Aggregators will shield consumers from increasingly complex wholesale electricity rates
“I think that rates are both, both going to get much more complex and much more simple. I think what's going to happen ultimately is you will have Some disintermediaries or what they're called aggregation service providers, ASPs, that will be sophisticated enou…”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 4:24 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
Insight
Engstrom: Residential electricity customers buy convenience, not commodity electrons
“Residential customers who, you know, ultimately I believe don't think they're buying electrons from their utility. They're buying convenience. I come home. I turn on my lights. I turn on my air conditioner. It works. They're not thinking about how much am I pa…”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 9:04 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
Assertion Supported
Engstrom: Over 60% of US customers have TOU access, under 10% enroll
“So we know just across the country that today, well over 60% of customers could be Enrolled in a time for use rate, but there's only about seven or, you know, less than 10% are enrolled.”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 24:23 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
Assertion Supported
Engstrom: SCE measured 75 MW peak load reduction via TOU during 2022
“Southern California Edison, we worked with they measured on one peak day, The price signal to time of use customers, this is one of the heat storms in California in August, September, I think, of twenty-twenty-two, but they measured 75 megawatts of load reduct…”
Scott Engstrom Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 32:27 Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition

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Appearances (1)

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Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition Sep 4, 2024 20m
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