Sounds like you're teeing up to be the pipes for DER management. That's great -- lots of people are coming into the field wanting to be the ones who own the DER

Sounds like you're teeing up to be the pipes for DER management. That's great -- lots of people are coming into the field wanting to be the ones who own the DER management/experience -- but who do you think is going to win the coordination fight? The EV folks know they have giant batteries on wheels, so they're all wanting to control their schedules to do utility-scale grid services. Smart EV chargers like the JuiceBox try to make their own schedules for the same reason. In California, we have nega-watt companies like OhmConnect that push out their schedules. Folks like Tesla want to sell you a closed ecosystem so they can vertically integrate their schedules. And then there's Nest/Homekit, who want to be the central hub of it all. It's great to allow all these devices to be connected via API, but as a consumer, who am I going to go to to realize some of this value? And how I am going to make sure my EV's schedule doesn't turn on during my OhmHour or some other combination of aggregators pushing conflicting schedules that will just drive me mad into IoT hell?