by Wayne Pales | Nov 1, 2020
In December 2019, two months after leaving my role as GM of Technology Strategy at the Australian Energy Market Operator, I started the research on my third book, a follow up to ‘The Digital Utility’. At that time, the working title was ‘The Distributed...
by Wayne Pales | Apr 4, 2019
A few weeks ago I launched a diagnostic to provide you with insights and recommendations on how to improve your demand response program. The results are starting to reveal some exciting, and somewhat scary, patterns. One such pattern is the omission of a Utility...
by Wayne Pales | Mar 28, 2019
I first became aware of the impact peak demand has on the price a consumer paid for electricity about eight years ago. It was during the period I was given the opportunity to lead Smart Energy for a large Asian utility. I have been fascinated with the topic ever...
by Wayne Pales | Mar 7, 2019
Later this year I plan to publish my third book, working title “The NW: Five steps to successfully scaling out demand response”. If you are in the demand response space, especially if you are a utility trying to implement demand response, I’d love...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 28, 2019
I continue to receive great feedback on my recent paper that explores the concept of Victoria leveraging its investment in its advanced metering infrastructure to become a Smart State. One piece of feedback, with quite a few ‘likes’ from our community, challenged my...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 21, 2019
Earlier this week I released a paper exploring the possibilities of Victoria becoming a Smart State. The idea was the result of discussions with a range of peers since I first wrote a blog on the topic in July 2016. I released the paper hoping to create a...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 14, 2019
During the heat wave a few weeks ago I remember receiving the below text message from my electricity retailer preparing me for a demand response event: I have long been an advocate of demand response, and here I was being told I could finally ‘do my bit’...
by Wayne Pales | Feb 6, 2019
Fail-fast, learn-fast, same same, it just depends if you are a glass half empty or glass half full sort of a person. The concept, coming from the world of start-ups, has now been part of the mainstream business lexicon for a few years. In the world of demand response,...
by Wayne Pales | Dec 12, 2018
We hear a lot about the need for utilities to ‘act like a start-up’. To create innovation practices. To ‘fail fast’ or as the more upbeat of us like to call ‘learn-fast’. I have been an advocate of this for years. Acting like a start-up is great to get things going,...
by Wayne Pales | Nov 22, 2018
In recent weeks, I have introduced you to the CLASS framework, designed to help you with your demand response journey. Through a series of posts, I explained that the first step is to obtain ‘clarity’. The next step in the CLASS framework is...
