A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Demand Response Top Driver of Smart Grid Implementation

Via Smart Grid News, research showing that demand response and peak shaving have jumped to the top of the list as drivers of Smart Grid implementation at North Amercian utilities:



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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.