A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Expect An ‘Explosion’ of End-User Applications
September 28th, 2009

Courtesy of The Energy Collective, an interesting summary of the four main themes of the recent GridWeek conference.  Coming in at #2 is a theme that we’ve been suggesting for some time now:

“…2. Consumers – expect an explosion in the development of end-user applications for energy management as companies work to play “catch up” on serving consumers, who have been somewhat left behind so far (the industry has been focused on smart grid infrastructure investments and vendors have mainly focused on utility customers so far)….”


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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 believes 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.