Systems and Methods for Use in Incentivizing Consumers to Adjust Utility Usage

摘要

Exemplary systems and methods are provided for incentivizing consumers to adjust utility usage at their premises. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, from a utility provider, a challenge defining a reduction in a utility usage by a consumer, in exchange for an incentive, and causing, by the computing device, the challenge to be delivered to the consumer. Then, when the challenge is completed, the method includes causing the incentive to be awarded to the consumer, whereby the utility provider is able to affect utility usage by the consumer through the incentive-based challenge.