The Grid Mod Pod | Episode 7: The Potential of Transactive Energy with Doug Shannon of SageWerks
by Dr. Elizabeth Cook, AEIC DER Subcommittee Chair
Welcome to the Grid Mod Pod, brought to you by AEIC. In this podcast, you’ll hear from the utility industry’s top operations leaders on how their companies are working to modernize and improve our ever-evolving power grid. Thank you for joining us.
In this episode, we’re joined by SageWerks CEO Doug Shannon. Here’s what you’ll learn when you listen in:
- What transactive energy is, and how it can be used to manage interactions between energy producers and consumers
- How decentralized assets such as DER (distributed energy resources) form the foundation for transactive energy systems
- An overview of game theory and its application to transactive energy
- Why utilities need to start looking at customers as assets to grid performance
- How transactive energy can enable a paradigm shift to a decentralized energy landscape