February 2-3, 2011 – Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, FL
Adaptive Energy Management TM
ENERGY CONSUMERS
Smart Grid …
from the Wrong Side of the Meter
Lawrence Silverman
Chairman
GRIDPLEX NETWORKS
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Disconnect between
Energy Consumers and Utilities
Who pays the bills in the Electric Market?
60% by Small Commercial, Local Business and Residential Consumers
What do these Consumers want?
Energy Management and Savings – as much as they can get –
Conservation all the time – 8,766 hrs/year
But most Investor-owned Utilities don’t support
overall “Energy Conservation”,
unless mandated by regulators or public policy –
because it conflicts with their business model.
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Realities of Today’s Electric Market
Whose interests shape Electric Market Economics?
Large Investor-Owned Monopoly Utilities
How do most large Utilities think of “Conservation”?
Peak Reduction - “Demand Response” - during 100 hours per year
So there are Market Incentives for Demand Response limited though large in total - but there is little monetary
support for Energy Conservation or Sustainability.
The conflict between the needs of Energy Consumers
and the business model of large Investor Owned Utilities
creates a huge unmet demand for effective
Consumer Energy Management.
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Why are Consumers Important?
Because they Vote!
Consumers have the power to influence
Public Policy and Regulation –
if they are informed and
choose to exert that power.
Consumers must be educated,
organized and empowered with
solutions they can understand and use.
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Very Large Markets
US Energy Consumer Communities
• 20 million Apartments
• 100 Million homes
• 20 million locally-owned businesses
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Why is Smart Grid important?
Reliable and efficient
electric supply
via a “Smart Grid”
is critical to the entire
Global Economy and to
Human Culture.
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“Smart Meters”
Tale of Good Spin gone Bad
What Utilities said:
“Smart Meters will save you money”.
What Utilities meant – “Your bills won’t go up as much as they
might have, because we’ll get better data and more control.”
What Energy Consumers thought:
“Smart Meters will make our bills go down”.
That didn’t happen – bills went up to pay for Smart Meters,
and Consumers rebelled – lawsuits, accusations of RF
contamination and meter errors – all signs of eroding trust
between Utilities and Energy Consumers.
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Two Reasons Consumer Energy Management
may be the “Killer App” for Smart Grid
(1) The Wrong One: If the benefits of Smart Grid accrue only
to the Utility, and are not equitably shared with Energy
Consumers, their votes will eventually “kill” critical Smart
Grid initiatives and incentives.
(2) The Right One: An effective user-friendly approach that
provides real savings for Consumers can result in broad
adoption of energy management solutions, greater
overall
efficiency and increased voter support for
Smart Grid.
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Why does it matter?
More Carbon emissions are created from
the generation and use of electricity in
buildings and homes than from cars and
trucks combined.
America depends more today on
Electricity than on Oil.
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Who cares?
Most Americans today
would choose to conserve energy and water.
They want to save money on their energy bills,
and to reduce their own carbon footprint.
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Prove it!
Sustainability today
is where Recycling was 15 years ago –
and rapidly gaining broad public support.
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So what’s the Problem?
Consumers need Energy Management
and Conservation that is
easy, painless and inexpensive.
But they don’t really know
what to do, or
how to do it,
and they have
no readily available
tools or solutions.
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The Problem for Mr. & Mrs. Jones …
It’s 5.15 pm.
Mr. Jones just got home. His last meeting was long and he’s running late.
The house is too hot, the wash hasn’t finished, and it’s his night to make dinner.
Mrs. Jones will be home in 20 minutes.
All of a sudden, he notices a red light flashing on the “utility dashboard”
in the kitchen, and a message that says
electricity cost has been 75 cents per kilowatt hour since 4 pm.
That must be a lot – otherwise the red light wouldn’t be flashing – but
what is a kilowatt hour anyway? And what does that have to do with dinner?
Leaving the house and taking his wife out to eat is not an option.
They’re on a tight budget.
So what do they do?
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GRIDPLEX has the answer – and is delivering it TODAY!
Monitor & Manage
Solar
Electric
HVAC
Water
Real-time Metering
Appliances
Gas
Service & Maintenance
Automated Demand Response
iPad
UI
“It’s the only system we’ve seen that every single one of our residents can use.”
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A Game-changing Solution
in a
Market
Energy Consumers,
Munis, Coops &
Communities
Large
Monopoly
Electric Utilities
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Please contact
Lawrence Silverman, Chairman
Thank You!
GRIDPLEX NETWORKS
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