A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Archive for February, 2020

Is Blockchain Still Key to a Better Energy System?
February 7th, 2020

Via Clean Energy Finance Forum, a look at the role that blockchain technology may have in the transition towards a more transactive energy system: BLOCKCHAIN PROPONENTS HAVE ARGUED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY CAN ENABLE A MORE DYNAMIC, DECENTRALIZED ELECTRICITY SYSTEM, referred to as “transactive energy,” which would promote deployment and accurate compensation of distributed energy resources. HOWEVER, […]

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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.