Courtesy of The Energy Collective, two posts on smart grids and the consumer. First, a look at the segmentation of consumers in smart grids and concludes that fully 90% of small consumers (residential and small retail) are not interested in participating in smart grid technologies (the other 10% divide into groups interested in saving the […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Energy Collective, an interesting article on the position of consumers in the smart grid / smart meters roll out. We are in agreement with the author’s view on smart meters and their relative lack of utility (dare we say…), but we disagree with his overall somewhat pessimistic view on the primacy of […]
Read more »Via Tyler Hamilton’s Clean Break blog, some insightful comments on industry’s “marketing” of smart meters and how utilities may have erred in positioning meters as consumer friendly nodes of action instead of important – but decidely unsexy – infrastructure investments. As we have discussed here, smart meters and smart grids without smart markets are a […]
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