by AESP Member Contributor | Jul 13, 2026 | Business Strategy, CARE, Customer Programs
Households, especially low- to moderate-income (LMI), across the United States increasingly struggle to pay their electric and gas utility bills, driving stress, forcing tradeoffs and sacrifices, and creating arrears and disconnection risks. Financial pressure is...
by AESP Member Contributor | Jan 23, 2026 | Business Strategy, Professional Development
AESP’s Annual Conference brings together the people doing the work and shaping what comes next in energy efficiency, demand management, and customer programs. It is packed with ideas, conversations, and connections. A little intention goes a long way in turning a busy...
by AESP Member Contributor | Oct 13, 2025 | Business Strategy, CARE
“Abundance flows from reciprocity, not extraction.” Across the globe, new data centers are being built to power machine learning, cloud services and the digital economy we’ve come to call AI. These facilities consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and their...
by AESP Member Contributor | Mar 20, 2025 | Business Strategy, Customer Programs, Demand Flexibility
The traditional energy paradigm is shifting dramatically as consumers evolve from passive recipients to active participants. This change, driven by factors like solar generation, EV charging, and home electrification, is necessitating utilities to develop new,...
by AESP Member Contributor | Jan 31, 2025 | Business Strategy, Canada, Demand Flexibility
Three to four decades. That’s how long some utilities have been turning to Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs to deliver value – primarily through enhanced energy savings – to customers, to the grid, and to society at large. Yet as utilities grapple with the twin...
by AESP Member Contributor | Jan 10, 2025 | Business Strategy, Demand Flexibility
Recently, the Department of Energy released a report calling for virtual power plant capacity to grow from the current 30-60 gWh available to U.S. grid operators primarily attributable to demand response, to 80-160 gWh to meet rapidly increasing demand. Now, analysts...
