Grid Unlocked
Understanding and Connecting Smart Meters, Smart Grids, and Smart Markets.

A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling

Archive for May, 2026

Case for Using Prices Rather than VPPs to Coordinate Distributed Energy
May 8th, 2026

Via Volts, commentary on how dynamic, time- and location-specific retail prices, communicated directly to consumer devices, would be a better way of coordinating the behavior of thousands of distributed energy resources by cutting out the middleman and leave more value with customers: David Roberts Hello everyone, this is Volts for May 8, 2026: “The case […]

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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 believes 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.