Recent Parks Associates research shows that today, consumers are less familiar with energy programs, energy monitoring products, and tax incentives for energy-saving programs than they were at the end of 2014. However, ownership of smrt home devices is trending upward, indicating an opportunity for utilities and service providers to educate consumers through the smart home channel.
Additional research shows:
- 25% of U.S. broadband households consider an energy monitoring service very appealing.
- Approximately half of smart energy device owners or purchase intenders would permit utility control of their smart appliances in exchange for a product rebate.
- 14% of U.S. broadband households planned to purchase a smart thermostat by the end of 2015.
Parks Associates' Smart Energy Summit, hosted annually in Austin, will focus on ways to engage consumers in energy programs and the partnership opportunities emerging from the growth in the IoT. This year's event will take place February 22-24, 2016 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Austin.
Parks Associates would like to thank the following companies for sponsoring the 2016 Smart Energy Summit:
EnergyHub is the connected device solution for utilities. EnergyHub’s Mercury DRMS allows utilities to partner with their customers and deliver more powerful demand response using connected devices, while our Bring Your Own Thermostat™ service makes hundreds of thousands of existing connected homes available to utilities for demand response without a single truck roll. EnergyHub is an independent subsidiary of Alarm.com, the leading platform solution for the smart home.
For more than 30 years, Honeywell Smart Grid Solutions (SGS) has provided utilities with industry-leading technologies and strategies from automated demand response and energy solutions to utility customer communications. Working with utility clients across the globe, Honeywell SGS has delivered innovative programs and solutions to help utilities exceed their demand management goals.
Energy and sustainability solutions are just the beginning. Honeywell SGS also helps utilities engage customers for program participation, create and implement energy management systems, measure and verify energy and demand savings and serve their commercial and residential customers reliably and efficiently. Honeywell Smart Grid Solutions is your partner.
As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centers/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications.
Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 110,000 plus employees achieved sales of more than $26 billion in 2010, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations “Make the most of their energy.”
For more information on Smart Energy Summit, visit www.ses2016.com.
