Can Opower Keep Utilities in Control of the Distributed Grid?

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🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Opower has evolved a lot over the years. The software provider started with a simple efficiency solution for utilities, and has since deepened its analytics and moved into demand response, billing, segmentation and customer care. One thing has stayed the same over the years: Opower firmly believes that the utility will be the arbiter of the distributed grid. In this week’s show, we’ll talk with Opower CEO Dan Yates about the promise and perils of selling software to utilities. He’ll also discuss why he believes strengthening utility interactions with customers will be crucial for realizing a renewables-heavy grid. Later in the show, we’ll discuss Hawaii’s decision to slash net metering. And we’ll wrap up with a preview of the Paris climate talks -- will an agreement be reached? Don't forget to check out our new premium service, GTM Squared: http://www.greentechmedia.com/squared. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:09.4	In this show, a conversation with O-Power CEO Dan Yates.
1:13.4	O-Power started with a very simple business model designed to bring incremental energy savings
1:17.6	to utilities.
1:18.6	Now it wants to provide software to manage the entire customer utility relationship.
1:23.0	We'll talk about why that's not easy.
1:25.0	Then we'll discuss the end of retail net metering in Hawaii
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