The Grid Sandbox is an online innovation sandboxing platform for utilities to radically accelerate and scale solutions for a clean, reliable, and affordable electricity grid. Volta Research is partnering with a local utility to pilot their platform with 10 or more Calgary homes, giving each access to a free virtual home energy audit, end-use energy consumption and production forecasting, and virtual billing. In exchange, the utility will learn from and engage with participating homes - informing future rate designs and energy service offerings. The platform will make it easy for utilities to learn from and engage with their customers, like understanding their evolving loads, behaviours, and preferences for clean energy services - ranging from efficiency, distributed energy resources (DERs), and demand response. The sandbox platform also helps households learn about opportunities to invest in home energy retrofits, self-production, storage, and EV charging infrastructure while making it easy for them to try out new technologies, rates, and utility services.