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title: "Designing Succes: Forum Panel Replay"
description: Watch our replay from our 2021 Virtual Innovation Forum, learn from different utility experts and leaders on what makes a successful pilot.
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# Successful DER Strategy Starts With Education

Panel: Designing Success, DER Pilots and Programs

Thinking about how to build a successful demand response program that sparks innovation? In this roundtable discussion, guests from CoServ, the Association for Energy Affordability, CLEAResult, EnergyUnited, and Green Mountain Power will examine challenges and discuss strategies used when architecting pilots and programs. Themes will include the initial cost-benefit considerations, upfront customer education, and the role partnerships play in the rollout and continued success of customer demand response programs.

> Panelist
> 
> Shadea Mitchell, Virtual Peaker
> 
> Ben Smith, CoServ
> 
> Nikolai Robles, EnergyUnited
> 
> Jesse DeGrendel, CLEAResult
> 
> Craig Ferreira, Green Mountain Power
> 
> Nick Dirr, Association for Energy Affordability

 

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