A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Archive for September, 2013

Intelligent Water Consumption: Next Frontier For The Smart Grid?
September 1st, 2013

Via The Energy Collective, an interesting look at whether residential customers could curtail water usage in the same ways (and as conveniently) as they are asked to curtail electricity usage?  Namely what tools and programs would be available to help bring such a smart grid to reality: The Rim Fire, a conflagration centered in California’s […]

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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.