Via EETimes, a report on an interesting peer-to-peer energy sharing anti-poverty program enabled by smart grid and Internet technologies: In the U.S. there are approximately 40 million people that may be at risk of experiencing energy poverty. Energy poverty occurs when people cannot afford to pay for their energy needs. Peer-to-peer energy sharing, or crowdsourcing of energy, […]
Read more »Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting article on the impact of pricing on water use: When residents of this parched California city opened their water bills for April, they got what Mayor Ashley Swearengin called “a shock to the system.” The city had imposed a long-delayed, modest rate increase — less than the […]
Read more »Courtesy of Grist, an interesting look at how market mechanisms are used to trade some water in California: When I started reporting on California’s drought I heard a lot of people complaining that farmers were growing crops that would simply be prohibitively expensive if they had to buy and sell their water at a fair […]
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