Via the Rocky Mountain Institute, an interesting article on how third-party solar financing models are not enough and how more of a smart market approach would foster increased solar power deployments among residential homeowners: In recent years, companies have made great strides in offering third-party financing to bring solar and energy efficiency to residential consumers […]
Read more »Via Smart Grid News, a look at distributed wind. Could distributed water also become an input to smart markets in years ahead – we believe so. The Energy Department released two new reports showcasing record growth across the U.S. wind market – increasing America’s share of clean, renewable energy and supporting tens of thousands of […]
Read more »Via EDF’s Energy Exchange blog, a somewhat theoretical look at markets and the idea of calibrating/trading energy efficiency like a resource. Perhaps this is one application of how smart markets may evolve: We’ve discussed the potentially grave impacts of the Texas Energy Crunch in a number of our previous blog posts. Time and time again, […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Energy Collective, another article on transactive energy – a new concept which sounds very much like smart markets to us… Transactive energy (TE) is a new hot topic in the energy industry, but what exactly is it? Frankly, it is a concept so new that it does not yet have a formal […]
Read more »Via The Energy Collective, some interesting commentary on residential demand response programs, interesting from the angle that – as usual – the author is framing her essay from the standpoint of rebates/incentives provided by the utility when – in our mind – a dynamic, peer to peer, demand response program in the form of a […]
Read more »Via Worldwatch Institute, an interesting article on transactive energy which is defined as “…a means of using economic signals or incentives to engage all the intelligent devices in the power grid—from the consumer to the transmission system—to get a more optimal allocation of resources and engage demand in ways we haven’t been able to before.” […]
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