More than half of consumers expressed interest in participating in utility-sponsored energy-management programs, especially programs that allowed them to manage energy consumption through devices in the home or an online portal.

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These platforms are also increasingly capable of providing ancillary services to the local utility such as spinning reserve, load-following regulation, and intermittency management for wind and solar energy.

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