A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Archive for July, 2009

Smart Meter Market Metrics
July 9th, 2009

Via Earth2Tech, a report on how the market for smart meters may develop in the years ahead: “…Despite all the attention on smart meters as a result of the stimulus package, from fast-moving utilities and even from the likes of Google, don’t expect the market for the technology to grow too quickly in the U.S. […]

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Looming Battle in Smart Grid: Software vs. Services
July 8th, 2009

Via GreenTech Media’s Green Light blog, an interesting article on the looming battle between companies which make hardware & software for controlling power and the demand response service providers.  As the article notes: “…A fight over control of the home (and office) seems to be taking shape. As time goes on, the world will likely […]

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About This Blog And Its Authors
Grid Unlocked is powered by two eco-preneurs who analyze and reference articles, reports, and interviews that can help unlock the nascent, complex and expanding linkages between smart meters, smart grids, and above all: smart markets.

Based on decades of experience and interest in conservation, Monty Simus and Jamie Workman believe that a truly “smart” grid must be a “transactive” grid, unshackled from its current status as a so-called “natural monopoly.”

In short, an unlocked grid must adopt and harness the power of markets to incentivize individual users, linked to each other on a large scale, who change consumptive behavior in creative ways that drive efficiency and bring equity to use of the planet's finite and increasingly scarce resources.