There has been something of a shift in the smart grid world, in the past decade. At one point, the meter was going to be the in-home device that would let a utility control appliances and provide smart home experiences as a value-add to customers. Now, that dream has withered on the vine, but the shift opened the door for a generation of software-focused startups to storm the industry. Gautam Aggarwal is the CMO of one of these firms, Bidgely, who explained how this shift has played out. Aggarwal joined Bidgely just over a year ago, and described how the founders started Bidgely in 2011 after realizing that device-based solutions that they were separately working on could not be scaled…