Smart Grid Today Podcast

ICF International utility business Senior Vice President Patty Cook and Senior Manager Justin Mackovyak joined us to discuss the evolution of utility demand-side management projects. ICF is a well respected and very experienced consultancy that among many other specialties, helps electric utilities manage their modernization and digitization efforts. Patty and Justin spoke about ICF’s work with utility demand-side management programs, especially the success they had helping the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) with its demand side management programs and demand response. The firm runs over 150 such programs for 46 electric utilities in the US alone, Patty noted, and she and Justin helped us understand what steps they are using to find the best results in those programs as many of their utility clients are looking at how to evolve those programs to match where the industry is headed.