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C3 Energy Shares How Machine Learning Drives Behavior Change
[October 23, 2014]

C3 Energy Shares How Machine Learning Drives Behavior Change


REDWOOD CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)--

C3 Energy Senior Director of Products Nikhil Krishnan, Ph.D., spoke yesterday on the application of machine learning to drive behavior change at the Emerging Technology Summit hosted by Pacific Gas & Electric.

Krishnan oversees the product marketing team at C3 (News - Alert) Energy, where he is responsible for developing both grid and customer analytics software solutions. Previously, Krishnan was an associate principal at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in McKinsey's Energy and Industrials Practices and a member of McKinsey's Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice.

During the session "Leveraging Big Data to Drive Behavior Change," Krishnan joined a panel moderated by PG&E's (News - Alert) Manager of Information Products Daniel Ohlendorf to discuss how advances in technology, including the application of the science of machine learning to large volumes of data, have opened the door to a new level of understanding around how customers use energ. Krishnan also described how C3 Energy's products, leveraging these advanced technologies, enable utility operators to better segment and target their customers in order to increase participation in energy efficiency and demand side management programs.



"C3 Energy applies machine learning to extract meaning from smart grid data sets much too large for any person to process manually in order to continuously improve outcomes and help utilities adapt to real-world conditions," said Krishnan. "Using machine learning, utility operators are able to dynamically adapt their customer engagement strategies and better drive behavior change to increase program performance, energy efficiency, and customer satisfaction."

The 6th biennial event was held in San Francisco from Oct. 20 - 22, 2014. It brought together more than 500 stakeholders in the energy efficiency and demand response emerging technologies sectors to learn, ideate, and debate the intersection of utility programs, technology, market drivers, customer engagement, policy, and implementation. For more information, visit http://www.etsummit.com.


About C3 Energy

C3 Energy is an enterprise application software company that harnesses the power of big data, smart grid analytics, social networking, machine learning, and cloud computing to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of power delivery. C3 Energy's family of utility-tested and proven smart grid analytics products deliver end-to-end solutions across the entire smart grid, from energy grid capital asset allocation, transmission, distribution, and advanced metering, to the customer experience and energy efficiency programs. C3 Energy products enable utility operators to realize the full benefit of their smart grid and energy system investments. Learn more at C3Energy.com.


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