Grid Unlocked
Understanding and Connecting Smart Meters, Smart Grids, and Smart Markets.

A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling

Archive for November, 2012

Just Rewards: California OKs Rewards for Smart Water Usage
November 22nd, 2012

Via Courthouse News, an interesting article on how one of California’s largest water providers can reward customers who use the resource efficiently under a new plan approved by the state.  That said – while rewards are positive motivators – without a mechanism (smart market) to allow customers to monetize, trade, save, and allocate rewards as […]

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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 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.