March 24th, 2020
Courtesy of Yahoo! Finance, a look at several new startups are about to revolutionize the sharing economy : The Airbnb of energy, the Uber of zero-carbon transportation, the VRBO of blockchain electricity-sharing… a collection of new startups are about to revolutionize the sharing economy – and smart money is starting to pay attention. The sharing […]
Read more »Is Blockchain Still Key to a Better Energy System?
February 7th, 2020
Via Clean Energy Finance Forum, a look at the role that blockchain technology may have in the transition towards a more transactive energy system: BLOCKCHAIN PROPONENTS HAVE ARGUED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY CAN ENABLE A MORE DYNAMIC, DECENTRALIZED ELECTRICITY SYSTEM, referred to as “transactive energy,” which would promote deployment and accurate compensation of distributed energy resources. HOWEVER, […]
Read more »January 29th, 2020
Via GreenTech Media, commentary on the slow growth of peer-to-peer energy trading: It’s been more than half a decade since grid watchers first began talking about the concept of trading energy with your neighbors across peer-to-peer platforms. Since then, the idea of selling the power generated by your rooftop solar panels to other individuals in the same […]
Read more »A Cap-and-Trade Plan for Water That Isn’t Working
September 19th, 2019
Via The Wall Street Journal, a report on market failures resulting from Australia’s Darling River crisis: Australia’s Darling River was once filled with fleets of paddle steamers carrying wool to ships bound for England. For nearly two centuries, it provided fresh water to farmers seeking to tame Australia’s rugged interior. No longer. The Darling River hasn’t […]
Read more »September 19th, 2019
Via The Wall Street Journal, commentary on how – for centuries – transparent water exchanges have built resilience across diverse cultures: “Water-Trading Market Runs Into Trouble” (Business News, Sept. 4) sheds overdue light on the abject mess Down Under. However, cap-and-trade water markets are neither strange nor new. For centuries, transparent water exchanges—Oman’s aflaj, Morocco’s […]
Read more »A Liquid Market
August 30th, 2019
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at the potential for market to place a role in allocating and conserving scarce water supplies: A long stretch of highway running between Los Angeles and San Francisco separates the dry hills to the west from the green plains of the San Joaquin Valley to the east, where much […]
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