Brittainy Pond
Brittainy Pond
Puget Sound Energy
Brittainy Pond is a Product Development Manager at Puget Sound Energy with a decade of experience serving Northwest utilities in designing and implementing innovative commercial and residential customer programs. Brittainy is responsible for leading the development of commercial and industrial demand response programs and has overseen the launch of PSE first system wide C&I Demand Response offerings in the fall of 2023. Since their launch, Brittainy has been focused on supporting Puget Sound Energy's Virtual Power Plant development efforts and capacity growth. Her subject matter expertise on the intersection between commercial customer operations and load management systems is driven by a passion to achieve support PSE’s clean energy goals. Brittainy earned a bachelor’s degree in both Environmental Analysis and Policy and International Relations, as well as her master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Analysis from Boston University. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family exploring the multitude of mountains and waterways throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings as a Utility Resource
Nowadays, aligning electricity supply with demand, maintaining grid reliability while achieving ambitious decarbonization goals is increasingly challenging for utilities for multiple reasons – increased penetration of renewables, phasing out of fossil fuel-based generations, and electrification goals to name a few. Research studies have shown tremendous potential in grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) as an emerging resource to support the utilities. This panel brings together leading voices from utilities and national laboratories on how the new utility-customer relationship is evolving and how demand flexibility in buildings holds the key to utility system reliability and adequacy in the age of decarbonization.