Courtesy of The Harvard Business Review blog, an interesting comment on the importance of dynamic retail pricing. As readers know, we are advocates of fully functioning “smart markets” to activate smart grids and smart meter deployments, and this regulator’s views are at least a step in that direction. As the article notes: “…Electric utilities need […]
Read more »Two interesting articles, both emphasizing the importance of consumers in the smart meter/smart grid manifesto being championed these days. The first wisely notes that smart meters are just a tool – they don’t save energy; people save energy. As the report notes, smart meters provide “…a tool that helps us to at least manage our […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Harvard Business Review, an interesting article on what the author calls the Smart Meter Backslide of 2010, the upcoming shakeout that is going to occur given the utility industry’s failure to engage customers in this transition. Smart markets anyone? As the report notes: “…Bolstered by stimulus funds and the growing market for […]
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