Via The San Francisco Chronicle, an interesting report on PG&E’s long-awaited SmartMeter opt-out plan designed to help quell growing protests over the new electricity and gas meters which PG&E is installing throughout Northern and Central California. Wouldn’t it have been easier (dare I say, smarter) to motivate consumers with a compelling (smart) market reason to […]
Read more »Via SmartMeters.com, a report encouraging utilities to investigate alternative revenue generation opportunities from their smart meter infrastructure. While enthusiastic proponents of innovation and markets, we are sanguine to this article’s premise. First, we believe smart markets primarily engage, reward, and motivate consumers – not utilities. Second, we encourage the development of alternative revenue streams, but […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Energy Collective, an interesting article on the role of consumers in smart grid deployments and the impact that artificial price signals and bill complexity have resulted in little efficiency improvements. While we are sanguine about the report’s suggested solution – distributed energy storage – we would much rather have smart markets, using […]
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