Overcoming Clean Energy Friction: Soft Costs & Hard Drinks

​A New York Climate Week discussion and happy hour hosted by Ecosuite and Mission:Data.

​DERs suffer from a "little data" problem. It is too hard and expensive to gather data full stop. This includes data from building management systems, on-site generation / storage, and electric usage / billing data from utilities.

​Leveraging open technology gets us part way there, but policy support is necessary to restrain the unfair gatekeeping power of utilities over your personal data. The tactics used by big incumbents to prevent information sharing include blocking, throttling, poor APIs, lack of standardization, and erecting bogus cybersecurity hurdles.

​Experts from the energy industry will discuss how even small policy wins combined with smart open technology solutions could trigger a paradigm shift for the growth of DERs.

​Moderator: Michael Murray, Mission:data

​Panelists:

• ​Arushi Sharma Frank, Founder and Principal, Luminary Strategies

• ​Col Smart, Senior Director - Intelligent Grid Solutions, TRC Companies

• ​John Rapaport, CIO, Keyframe Capital

• ​Marc Perez Ph.D., Group Research Manager, Clean Power Research