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Brenen Riggs
Brenen Riggs researches and advises utilities on a range of topics within Customer Energy Solutions. Before joining E Source, he spent six years at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, where he was responsible for the regulatory oversight of various utility programs, complex ratemaking proceedings, and analysis on a wide range of energy policy issues.Brenen holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and is a candidate for a Master of Public Policy and Management, both from Ohio State University.
Utility DER and Electrification Benchmark
Distributed energy resource (DER) and electrification programs are a growing priority for many utilities in the US and Canada. Utilities are challenged in several ways—from high-level strategy and planning to more tactical efforts such as rate-making, program and service development, customer education and communications, and the evolution of internal organizational structures.
Program innovation
Use regulatory portfolio performance data and predictive data science to build innovative energy-efficiency, demand-response, distributed energy resource, and electrification programs.
Grid and asset optimization
Residential Electrification Survey
Understanding your customers is an important part of designing effective electrification programs and services. To help you engage with your customers and understand the market for electrification technologies in your service territory, E Source designed a survey to gather information on this topic from residential customers. We focus primarily on three technologies: heat-pump water heaters, heat pumps for home heating and cooling, and induction cooktops.
Batteries
It’s crucial for utilities to get accurate information about energy storage technology and the complex dynamics at work in the battery market. In the current market, supply-chain issues, material shortages, and manufacturing limitations cause uncertainty. And demand for batteries is skyrocketing.
Large business DG market research study
The E Source distributed generation (DG) market research study provides utilities with critical information to help them understand what motivates large and midsize business customers to acquire photovoltaic (PV) systems and other DG technologies. It also reveals which customers are most likely to reduce their demand for traditional utility-provided power.
Key questions we address include:
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