Freya Langford / Chief Data Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Interval data can show an energy retailer that a household is struggling months before a missed bill. Retailers should use that signal only to offer help, build the separation into their systems, and say publicly what the separation costs.
Read the essayInterval data can show an energy retailer that a household is struggling months before a missed bill. Retailers should use that signal only to offer help, build the separation into their systems, and say publicly what the separation costs.
A retailer's midday load is shaped by its own customers' panels, not the region's. Buying a regional solar estimate hedges somebody else's customers; the forecast should be built from the retailer's own meters and owned by the business that carries the risk.
Mandatory climate statements make emissions part of the annual report that directors sign. For a gentailer most of those emissions come from customers' gas and purchased electricity, and they should be calculated from billed volumes under the controls that govern revenue.