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

A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling

Archive for June, 2009

Green With Envy
June 20th, 2009

Via The Atlantic, an interesting article on the power of peer information and the power of seizing on the concept of loss of a unit of value as a motivational opportunity—one that will finally get people to act.  As the report notes: “…Now Cialdini is applying that concept to energy consumption, with promising results. Positive […]

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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.