HData & Recurve: Driving Greater Transparency and Reducing Market Friction
Across the energy ecosystem, HData serves stakeholders who work in the complexities of regulatory research, analysis and preparation. As a purpose-built platform that combines regulatory data with powerful AI, HData helps improve information accessibility and accelerate insights that can be gained from regulatory filings.
HData customer Recurve helps utilities and their partners align demand-side investments to capture the greatest grid and customer value. Its FLEX platform provides advanced analytics that can forecast, target, measure and verify energy impacts, adding transparency and scalability to demand flexibility programs.
Recurve’s FLEX platform enables data transparency by providing secure, standardized access to meter-based energy data that can be used to plan, quantify and verify demand-side impacts. This transparency supports regulatory priorities of accountability, equity and technology-neutral procurement by making the value of demand flexibility visible to all stakeholders. For example, utilities rely on the FLEX platform to quantify peak demand reductions tied to specific programs, while regulators can rely on open, auditable impact data to inform decision making and ensure fair market participation.
How Recurve Uses HData
The regulatory landscape influences how Recurve’s solutions are implemented, and it provides critical signals for where and how to engage both in the market and in the regulatory process.
For Recurve, regulatory intelligence was time consuming and reactive. The organization needed to accelerate the process of following proceedings and relevant dockets in order to engage more efficiently and strategically in the regulatory process. Recurve implemented HData, focusing on the use of structured data for planning, and Regulatory AI to research and monitor high-impact, upcoming filings such as Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) and ongoing proceedings with the California Public Utilities Commission.
To proactively support demand flexibility programs, Recurve uses HData to:
- Identify emerging opportunities
- Monitor key regulatory proceedings
- Research how similar initiatives have been received by regulators
- Analyze comments on proceedings
Recurve has leveraged the HData platform to accelerate insights, reduce friction with regulatory data and improve business outcomes in three specific areas:
Market Intelligence
The structured data available in HData provides the Recurve team ready access to utility data from the Energy Information Agency, which the team uses to prioritize outreach. Within HData's library of authoritative regulatory documents, IRPs and other regulatory proceedings contain critical intelligence on how states and utilities are planning for supply-side and demand-side investments in the future. By using HData to monitor for this specific intelligence, Recurve can quickly identify where and how utilities plan to leverage demand flexibility programs. This helps the team find valuable market opportunities for solutions like the FLEX platform.
Research Efficiency
Using HData’s advanced search features, Recurve locates regulatory filings that contain specific keywords, phrases and timeframes, narrowing down vast dockets to the most relevant documents. When a new set of filings floods a proceeding, the team can quickly summarize and query key positions, compare and contrast party alignment and identify points of collaboration with key stakeholders.
"HData has been really useful for helping us process large volumes of comments on key proceedings and to isolate details within filings,” said Carmen Best, Chief Policy Officer at Recurve.
She also noted how Regulatory AI can support research on archived proceedings that include regulations still in place today. “Some of these regulatory decisions go back to the 2000s and we use Regulatory AI to find them, isolate the origin of a key rule, and ensure our platform supports the regulatory context."
Recurve also leverages HData to monitor proceedings that cover energy efficiency, demand response, rates and system planning, all of which shape the future of demand flexibility. Using Regulatory AI, Recurve analyzes comments on proceedings to understand parties' positions, which open opportunities for deeper conversations and collaboration on complementary policy solutions.
Knowledge Transfer
HData makes regulatory information more accessible, enhancing institutional knowledge and enabling more informed decision making at Recurve. “It’s an incredible resource for knowledge transfer," says Best. “HData provides an added layer of detail that I can share across the team.” This visibility helps ensure that Recurve's products continue to deliver on their regulatory value proposition of increased transparency and continue to reduce friction so that demand flexibility can grow as a valued resource.
"HData has been really useful for helping us process large volumes of comments on key proceedings and to isolate details within filings."
- Carmen Best, Chief Policy Officer at Recurve
A Shared Mission in the Energy Sector
HData’s regulatory data infrastructure and AI capabilities streamline access to critical intelligence, enabling Recurve to proactively identify opportunities, monitor trends and enhance research. Recurve's goal of making demand flexibility easier to implement and scale aligns with HData's mission of improving regulatory efficiency, and HData is proud to work alongside organizations with a shared belief that transparent, accessible data leads to better decision making in the energy sector.
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