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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Sun, Oct 2, 2022, at 8:39 AM, Brad Morrison wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Tom, </span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Do you know if Sonoma
Clean Power uses LF Energy's work in their work? SCP has a
program called GridSavvy Rewards (<a href="https://sonomacleanpower.org/programs/gridsavvyrewards" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://sonomacleanpower.org/programs/gridsavvyrewards</a>)
that monitors energy usage and offers incentives and adjustments
based on the electrical grid's needs at the individual customer
level through smart thermostats and electric vehicle chargers. I
do not know what the back end software is that they use to do
that. Possibly a contractor...?</span><br></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My heat pump water heater is enrolled in the GridSavvy program. Industry jargon for this program is "demand response" — essentially a way to automate reducing the load on the grid. It's not about <i>monitoring</i> energy use, but reducing it or shifting it in time, so that supply matches demand. (CAISO has some <a href="http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx">fun graphs of this match-up on their website</a>.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>A water heater's a great case for this — there is 80 gallons of scalding-hot water sitting in an insulated container in my garage, connected to the house via a thermostatic mixing valve. It could stop heating the water for hours at a time and I'd never notice.<br></div><div><br></div><div>When I first enrolled the program was administered by <span class="font-sans-serif" style="text-decoration-line:inherit;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-decoration-thickness:inherit;"><span style="text-decoration-line:inherit;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-decoration-thickness:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://olivineinc.com/">Olivine, Inc.</a> but they sent an email in May that they'd be changing providers. I don't know who the new provider is, but the credit is still appearing on my bill.</span></span> No idea if they use any of the LF Energy-associated software or standards.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Did you read the PD
article? Have you heard of LF Energy before?</span><br></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes to both. I work at a startup in an adjacent space (solar for commercial buildings) and stumbled across LF Energy some time ago, though last I looked all their projects seemed more oriented toward direct interactions with the electrical grid.<br></div><div><br></div><div>LF Energy is an industry consortium, so some of these projects appear to be about companies seeking collaborators for their projects, such as <a href="https://www.lfenergy.org/projects/opengeh/">OpenGEH</a> which appears to be business process automation software developed for a Danish transmission operator. <a href="https://www.lfenergy.org/projects/sogno/">SOGNO</a> appears to be a code dump from an EU research project (the premise seems to be doing grid telemetry over 5G?). Others are open implementations associated with a consultancy, such as <a href="https://flexmeasures.readthedocs.io/en/stable/">FlexMeasures</a> with <a href="https://seita.nl/">Seita</a>. In the latter case the open-sourceness is a selling point because it nominally avoids vendor lock-in, and the Linux Foundation is a familiar brand.<br></div><div><br></div><div>---Tom<br></div></body></html>