Courtesy of the Electric Collective, an interesting commentary on what they call the Great Electric Company Growth opportunity: Energy use in the US can be split into two large (very, very large) pies. One is electricity for use in homes, buildings, and industry, and the other is transportation, which is powered primarily by liquid fuels […]
Read more »Via Greentech Media, an interesting look at some of new third-party financing models that are emerging for efficiency: Energy efficiency professionals are increasingly looking to the success of third-party financing in the solar industry as a model for attracting large investors and growing deal flow quickly. Is it working? If a new survey of hundreds […]
Read more »Via Greentech media, an article on Opower’s plans to help utilities use data from their customers to sell services back to them, perhaps by helping utilities sell shares in community solar programs and run the billing process. While the possibility of power companies offering customers an equity stake in solar projects while potentially avoiding net […]
Read more »Two articles looking more carefully at water rights trading and their potential role in helping address resource shortages. Thus, not a smart grid solution per se, but a further endorsement of the role that smart markets and trading can play as a means of helping alleviate resource shortages. The first via the New York Times: […]
Read more »Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at the architecture of electricity: The basic architecture of distributing electricity to end consumers has changed little during the past 100 years. Still, technologies have slowly evolved over time, and in the last decade the concept of a smart grid has emerged. While there are different definitions […]
Read more »Via Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment, interesting commentary on energy efficiency finance, one aspect of a truly smart grid: The question of whether energy efficiency finance has finally arrived in scale was a major point of discussion at the 2014 ACEEE Energy Efficiency Finance Forum on May 11-13 in Washington, DC. Both the […]
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