A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Archive for July, 2022

Will Water Pricing Be The Next Carbon Pricing?
July 16th, 2022

Via Greenbiz, an article on whether water pricing will be the next carbon pricing: The price of water — essential for human life, nature, communities and businesses — is often subsidized, reflecting a commonly held belief that everyone should have abundant access to clean water. But in many locations, those prices don’t reflect the true cost of […]

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Tesla’s Large Scale Battery Projects Are Transforming The Grid
July 2nd, 2022

Via Quartz, an article on how Tesla’s large scale battery projects are transforming the grid: In 2019, Tesla introduced the Megapack, a battery the size of a shipping container designed to kill coal- and gas-fired “peaker” power plants. Peaker plants sit idle for most of the day, but fire up to provide extra energy whenever demand for […]

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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.