The perks of being a member
When you’re a member of the E Source Distributed Energy Resource Strategy Service, we’ll help you identify opportunities to create integrated customer-centric distributed energy resource (DER) and electrification strategies, programs, pilots, and other offerings. With the service, you get:
- The research and expertise to help you understand rapidly evolving DER and electrification utility trends and show you how to communicate more effectively with customers, internal stakeholders, and regulators
- Innovative approaches to help you identify urgent areas of program improvement and capitalize on tested DER and electrification strategies
- Insight into residential and business customers’ thoughts and behaviors around building electrification, solar, battery storage, and other utility DER and electrification program offerings
Ask our experts unlimited questions
Answers from our DER experts will inform the design, implementation, and education strategies of your solar and renewable energy, EV and charger, battery storage, microgrid, and building electrification programs. Common questions are about DER customers’ needs and ways to overcome regulatory and policy challenges. We also provide program and pilot examples, benchmarking, and trends. Learn more about our Ask E Source program (PDF).
Access our library of research
You’ll gain access to in-depth customer market research, insights on utility trends, and facilitated information-sharing among peers to help you develop more-effective strategies and programs and build your business case for both internal and external stakeholders.
Use our exclusive DER-related tools
Through the E Source DER Insights Centers for the US and Canada, you can learn about customer preferences around DER programs and strategies both on a national level and for your utility’s region.
Be part of our benchmark studies and other proprietary market research
Compare the performance of your programs and initiatives to those of your utility peers with Residential DER Customer Market Research and the DER Strategy Benchmark. Ensure your solar websites are optimized with the Utility Solar Website Benchmark. We also offer individualized reviews to evaluate the strength of your current strategies, identify performance gaps, and develop ideas for future efforts.
Attend our free DER strategy–focused events
Collaborate and interact with industry experts and your peers at topically relevant working groups as well as our annual E Source Forum. Recent topics include residential interest in DER-related products and services and how to develop a data-backed plan for enhancing existing program offerings.
What our customers are saying
E Source’s customer market research, best practice insights, and expert guidance have been extremely helpful to our understanding of the customer, in improvements to our tools and resources, and specifically this year to our new web page on battery storage. We really value E Source’s responsiveness to our questions, and the opportunity to collaborate with their experts and utility peers on solar and other DER-related topics.
Elliana Spiegel
Customer Energy Solutions
The working group meeting was incredibly useful. We shared what we learned with our leadership team, and based on the tools and intelligence we gained from participating, they gave us immediate permission to improve our communications approach for Westar’s Community Solar project.
Tammie Rhea
Account Manager
Thank you for the very worthwhile solar workshop. I presented what I learned to my team and they agreed it was exactly on point with the major initiatives our company has underway to grow solar in Virginia. We will certainly use the E Source solar knowledge and content going forward as we progress with our programs and initiatives.
Daisy Pridgen
Senior Corporate Communications Specialist
Recommended DER strategy membership bundles
| If you want to … | Then you need … |
|---|---|
| Pick the right technologies to promote in your overarching DER strategy | E Source Technology Assessment Service |
| Design, implement, and promote effective programs for residential customers | E Source Residential Marketing Service |
| Plan and execute programs for C&I customers | E Source Business Marketing Service |
| Deliver a consistent experience through the life cycle of your DER offering | E Source Customer Experience Strategy Service |