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Retail and wholesale price signals can work together to optimize customer experience, reduce risk, and boost savings while maintaining grid reliability.

Energy efficiency can help Illinois reach its proposed statewide peak reduction goal, but only if they target the right customers.

Recurve’s recent study of ComEd’s energy efficiency programs proves conclusively that customer targeting accurately predicts results from future customers.

Prepare for a future where demand-side resources play an active role in a vibrant local energy economy.

Part 1 of Recurve's blog series explores a recent study of four ComEd energy efficiency programs with CLEAResult and ILLUME Advising as ComEd's partners.

BayREN Launches Business FLEXmarket to Enable Energy Efficiency Solutions for Small & Medium Businesses and Hard-to-Reach Communities

How MCE Sync automatically reduced customers' EV charging by 96 percent during peak times.

The key to making electrification policy work is identifying and targeting the right customers.

Calpine, Quantum, and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Lean into the Clean Energy Transition with Investment in Recurve's Virtual Power Plant Platform

The proposed Inflation Reduction Act includes $4.3B for behind-the-meter residential energy flexibility.

Recurve and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), California's largest utility, have officially launched a first-of-it's-kind Market Access Program. 

In this webinar and Q&A, NAESCO talks to Recurve CEO Matt Golden about how FLEXmarkets can create new cash flows for ESCOs.

New York’s new P4P program will demonstrate the power of the market to deliver innovative solutions to help decarbonize New York’s homes and grid.

MCE launches Residential and Commercial “Market Access” FLEXmarkets to address the State’s Summer Peak Reliability Emergency

Watch this TEDx talk by Recurve CEO Matt Golden to learn how FLEXmarkets encourage innovation, support local jobs, and help customers reduce energy costs.

The EDP Technical Advisory Group is pleased to release a practical guide to differential privacy in a risk-based data access framework.

Market Access offers an unprecedented opportunity for energy efficiency and demand response businesses to make money while helping save the California grid.

The governor's $1B proposal represents an important turning point in the effort to decarbonize California's economy.

NOT your typical efficiency program! Learn how Market Access breaks down barriers by paying providers for the value of their portfolios to the grid.

Recurve’s CAISO sponsored study shows how open-source s FLEXmeter methods properly measure and value demand response so ISOs can depend on it.

Why FLEXmeter it is needed and how an open source approach can give ISOs the confidence to deploy and integrate demand response.

CPUC Approves $150M FLEXmarket Inspired “Market Access” Program to Enhance Summer Reliability

Learn how engaging with MCE’s Energy Efficiency FLEXmarket can help you grow your efficiency business and make better margins. 

Recurve is pleased to announce that it has received SOC 2 Type II certification.

Are the climate impacts of growing weed harshing your buzz? Learn how Seinergy is greening indoor cannabis cultivation through the MCE FLEXmarket.

Do you have customers with controllable loads? Submit those sites to the MCE FLEXmarket and get paid for saving energy during peak hours this summer!

Last week the California Public Utilities Commission took a leap toward reconciling energy efficiency with other distributed energy resources.

Segmenting the California's efficiency portfolio will allow all investments to drive toward their intended purpose. 

University of California pilot shows that NMEC can work for universities and other institutions with a large and diverse building stock.

Newly proposed congressional legislation HOPE for HOMES is a great leap forward for measured performance.

Recurve is excited to announce the release of an open-source package of tools to simplify and bring to life the valuation of demand-side resources.

With the growing need for demand-side programs that can compete against an intensifying duck curve, California needs a modernized approach to valuation.

Partnering with Recurve, Eversource put data to use to chart a clear path toward enhanced cost-effectiveness and improved services for its Connecticut custo

Recurve is excited to announce the release of a new report on metered energy savings by the Green Finance Institute.

In this series, we explain how differential privacy can make energy data both more secure and more valuable.

In this series, we explain how differential privacy can make energy data both more secure and more valuable.

In this series, we explain how differential privacy can make energy data both more secure and more valuable.

Recurve's analysis of the August 14th demand response event demonstrates that demand response works as long as appropriate methods are in place.

We at Recurve want to encourage everyone to give back to their communities, especially during this holiday season. 

Recurve is excited to announce Energy Differential Privacy, the first open-source library for computing differentially private energy data statistics.

JouleSmart launches small and medium Business Energy Pro Market In Westchester County, New York.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission aims to create a scalable national market for DERs, but will their plan work?

COVID Renders Traditional M&V Obsolete. Introducing the GRIDmeter™.

NYSERDA and National Grid launch residential pay-for-performance pilot utilizing the Recurve Platform

Recurve Final Presentation: Methods and Open-Source Code to Enable M&V in the era of COVID

Watch this short video and learn about how Recurve is helping Ameren support small businesses affected by COVID-19.

A recent billing analysis of efficiency projects in Connecticut shows the promise of Advanced M&V to help programs improve performance.

In this video, Ben Brown discusses how PG&E is implementing meter-based pay-for-performance to expand demand-side procurement.

In order to solve California's worsening grid problems, we need to rethink how it treats demand flexibility relative to other resources.

In this webinar, Carmen Best explains how an interactive report card can transform and scale efficiency and demand flexibility.

The CPUC Just Changed Marginal Energy Source Natural Gas to Battery Storage!

Experience and Lessons Learned from P4P Pilots for Energy Efficiency in the EU.

Marc Paré, Recurve's security and privacy engineer, explains how the company built enterprise-grade security at a startup-scale.

Recurve's Response to CPUC Questions on P&G

The Green Finance Institute presents a vision for market solutions to scale energy efficiency in the U.K., including through metered energy consumption.

A collaborative effort to develop methods for quantifying exogenous energy consumption factors such as COVID-19 that lie outside of forecasts.

Congratulations to efficiency visionary Ken Colburn, who is retiring from the Regulatory Assistance Project.

EBCE is a national leader in decarbonization. Learn how it integrated its platform with Recurve's to address peak demand and carbon targets.

SMUD and Recurve team explain how to transform efficiency by targeting the hourly carbon intensity of the grid rather than savings.

The CPUC's revision on NMEC provides a host of critical updates. 

Recurve commends the CEC on its clear vision for evolving energy efficiency to demand flexibility.

In this article series for T&D World Magazine, Recurve shows how resource curves can integrate demand flexibility into energy markets.

While the IEA Energy Efficiency Report finds that progress in energy efficiency is slowing, at Recurve we believe this represents an opportunity.

This post marks the release of the whitepaper: Evolving Cost-Effectiveness Policy and Tools to Enable Modern Energy Efficiency and Demand-Side Management

In order for P4P efficiency to work, we need transparent and reproducible measurement that can be verified by all parties.

This Electricity Journal article explains it all--the soup-to-nuts on how we can leverage behind the meter demand flexibility like a real resource.

NMEC and open-source approaches are less expensive and performed better in testing than proprietary tools for evaluating efficiency in commercial buildings.

Learn how hourly usage, locational marginal pricing and weather data can be combined to value energy efficiency at any given time of day and location.

Considering pay-for-performance and metered efficiency? Learn how states are approaching regulatory and market reform in early pilots.

NYSERDA's new pay-for-performance RFP is a critical opportunity for efficiency implementers.

What is accuracy? What is precision? The Recurve team shares an internal discussion on why these terms need to be questioned when it comes to efficiency.

EVO Testing demonstrates that the OpenEEmeter, running CalTRACK 2.0 hourly methods, is a strong contender for modeling commercial buildings. 

Open source approaches can help meet the challenges of performance-based regulation with clear and transparent measurement methods and monitoring.

In this presentation, Recurve CEO Matt Golden will explain how market operators can move energy efficiency and flexibility into the actual energy market.

If we don’t measure carbon correctly, we will end up with policies and actions that don’t have the intended effect.

Recurve presents the OpenEEmeter and EM2 in the June 2019 LF Energy webinar series.

The story of Recurve CEO Matt Golden's journey from home performance contractor to energy data analytics, and why OpenEE changed its name.

OpenEE is now Recurve!

California has started to measure and value efficiency based on metered impacts to load shape rather than monthly savings and modeled demand impacts.

CPUC releases new guidance that effectively greenlights the application of NMEC to efficiency in California.

Matt Golden, CEO of OpenEE, traveled to Australia to discuss demand flexibility solutions for the country's grid challenges.

Automated, data-driven methods can reliably identify comparison groups to determine the net impact of energy efficiency interventions for evaluation.

After six months working with many of the top minds in energy efficiency measurement and verification, CalTRACK 2.0 methods

This post is based on a paper presented by OpenEE Senior Data Scientist Hassan Shaban at the ACEEE 2018 Summer Study conference.

The ACEEE Summer Study is a wonderful time to take stock of the progress of the industry and look ahead to the next frontiers in energy efficiency.

Understand the distinction between a couple of different ways of measuring energy efficiency.

New laws establish a data-driven path to double energy efficiency in California.

Non-routine engineering adjustments often inflate savings. Here's what to do instead.

Different parties to energy efficiency benefit from different forms of value that require different metrics.

Learn how to use data and insurance to have confidence in savings, and how to access project finance to pay for upfront investments.

NYSERDA presents a conceptual framework for pay-for-performance efficiency.

How to make M&V in commercial buildings reliable for pay-for-performance markets and energy performance contracts.

OpenEE CEO Matt Golden explains how a new approach to metering and calculating energy efficiency can transform the industry.

SB-350 requires tracking of NMEC from PACE projects, leveraging investment in smart meters and the OpenEEmeter to drive efficiency forward in the state.

As energy efficiency programs shed their legacy programs and ritualistic black box evaluations, innovation is emerging in the form of new market platforms.

This year, PG&E will launch a residential P4P pilot program that lays the groundwork for an entirely new approach to energy efficiency.