The perks of being a member
When you’re a member of the E Source Demand-Side Management Service, we’ll help you implement and manage an effective demand-side management (DSM) strategy that will save you time and resources while making energy and demand savings more achievable. With the service, you get:
- Guidance on portfolio strategy and program design, including identifying and analyzing gaps, highlighting program trends, and optimizing your portfolio
- Recommendations for communicating more effectively with customers, implementors, internal stakeholders, and regulators throughout program cycles from an independent, unbiased perspective
- Market research data and analysis of how utilities are approaching energy efficiency and DR pilots, programs, and regulatory hurdles to help you identify urgent areas of improvement to quickly put an effective strategy into action
Ask our experts unlimited questions
Answers from our DSM experts will inform your energy-efficiency and demand-response (DR) portfolio strategy or, if your strategy is set, will help with program design, implementation, and evaluation. We also address DSM-related policy and regulatory questions. Learn more about our Ask E Source program (PDF).
Access our library of research
You’ll gain access to our reports and thought leadership papers. Through this research, we deliver actionable profiles of innovative and experimental programs, keep you up to date on the issues driving today’s DSM market, and help you implement cost-effective portfolios.
Use our exclusive DSM-related tools
Build and improve your DSM portfolio using DSMdat, which gives you access to detailed program profiles from across North America. Use the “DSM Evaluation Library” to access impact and process evaluations of energy-efficiency and DR programs.
Be part of our benchmark studies and other proprietary market research
Compare the performance of your DSM portfolios to those of your utility peers by participating inbenchmark studies on topics like low- and moderate- income and “Small Business Direct-Install Programs Benchmark”.
Attend our free DSM-focused events
Collaborate and interact with industry experts and your peers at topically relevant meetings, web conferences, utility-only peer sharing calls, and our annual E Source Forum. Recent topics include low-income program design, working with trade ally networks, behavioral program strategies, and bolstering residential DR initiatives.
What our customers are saying
E Source really gets it. The topics are relevant to our business, and we don’t have to sift through a lot of noise.
Brandon Stites
Director of Conservation and Advanced Metering
The information is very comprehensive, with the most recent, valid information we need to build our programs.
J.D. Steedly
Director of Program Development
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|---|---|
| Pick the right measures for your programs | E Source Technology Assessment Service |
| Develop an integrated and effective customer-centric distributed energy resource strategy | E Source Distributed Energy Resource Strategy Service |
| Benchmark measure inputs and build accurate energy-savings forecasts | E Source Measure Insights |
| Benchmark your DSM programs | E Source DSM Insights |
| Design, implement, and promote effective programs for residential customers | E Source Residential Marketing Service |
| Plan and execute programs for C&I customers | E Source Business Marketing Service |
| Deliver a consistent experience through the lifecycle of your DSM program | E Source Customer Experience Strategy Service |