"energy" articles

The landscape has shifted post-COVID-19 pandemic. Inflation broke a 40-year high and interest rates have risen above pre-pandemic levels causing financial strains on consumers. Providers’ ability to innovate and offer new services to their existing customer base has been key in keeping the security industry revenues at all-time highs during these times of slow growth. Signs of a market slowdown after the pandemic boom are evident, but the opportunity for higher revenue remains...

Smart Energy Summit, hosted by Parks Associates, returned to Austin, Texas, and the Omni Austin Downtown Hotel on February 13-15, 2023. The summit agenda featured leaders from utilities, state, and national regulators, telecom and security companies, retailers, and OEMs. Thank you to our 2023 sponsors Connectivity Standards Alliance , Rapid Response Monitoring , Resideo , Calix , Schneider Electric , Copper Labs , Austin Energy ,...

Parks Associates hosted its 14th annual Smart Energy Summit this week in Austin, TX bringing the best of the best in the energy and smart home industries together. We had an amazing line up of speakers and leaders in the audience. I wanted to share some of the key insights we captured from the sessions. Thank you to our speakers, supporters, sponsors, and attendees for making the event so insightful. There is so much work to do as we shift to a world of renewable energy...

Resideo is participating as Lunch Sponsor at the Smart Energy Summit , hosted by Parks Associates . Smart Energy Summit 2023 is returning to Austin, Texas, and the Omni Austin Downtown Hotel on February 13-15, 2023. The summit agenda features leaders from utilities, state, and national regulators, telecom and security companies, retailers, and OEMs. Resideo creates technology and smart solutions that integrate seamlessly with their customers’ lives. Helping protect their...

Parks Associates team was at CES 2023 and research director, Chris White, reports back on exclusive industry insights and takeaways.  Chris is a research director with Parks Associates, covering the smart home and smart energy markets. He was previously a Director of Insights at PeopleMetrics in Philadelphia and the Data Manager of a youth-serving collaborative in New Orleans. He leverages this background in marketing research and data gathering to contribute to the design of...

Parks Associates team was at CES 2023 and Jennifer Kent, VP of research, reports back on exclusive industry insights and takeaways.  Jennifer manages the research department and Parks Associates' process for producing high-quality, relevant, and meaningful research. Jennifer also leads and advises on syndicated and custom research projects across all connected consumer verticals and guides questionnaire development for Parks Associates’ extensive consumer analytics survey...

This growing emphasis on smart home solutions and interoperability comes as utilities are amid an enormous transition changing how energy is generated and delivered. Driven by a massive shift to renewable energy sources, growing demand, and an aging grid, utilities are moving towards a distributed renewable energy environment after over a century of central station generation. The “utility of the future” is very real and a very different concept than that of utilities of...

Join leading industry executives and analysts at Parks Associates’ interactive Smart Energy Summit virtual session “ Distributed Energy and New Value: Shifting from a Centralized Grid ”  on November 17 at 11:00 AM CT for insights addressing how the industry is working to educate consumers on the potential for energy savings, the value of connected devices, how to be active participants in energy efficiency, and the transformation of the energy grid to be decentralized and...