Via the American Council For Energy Efficiency, a very interesting article analyzing what’s on the bills that electric utilities send to their customers. As the report notes, it may be wise – before we jump into discussion of smart meters, smart grids, etc. – for utilities to perhaps start including some basic data to make […]
Read more »A very interesting National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper was published recently, titled USING NON-PECUNIARY STRATEGIES TO INFLUENCE BEHAVIOR: EVIDENCE FROM A LARGE SCALE FIELD EXPERIMENT, which investigated the effectiveness of policy measures based on information transfers and pro-social messages in a large-scale, natural field experiment carried out in conjunction with Cobb County, […]
Read more »Via Treehugger, an interesting report on how Americans are not making great progress on home energy efficiency improvements. As frequent visitors to this blog know, we believe that this has everything to do with motivation and incentive, namely the opportunity to utilize a transactive grid to turn behavioral changes into real currency versus simply providing […]
Read more »Via Smart Grid Library, an interesting article on paradox of conservation and the drive for utilities to adopt new business models. As the report notes: Every business wants to grow the sales of their product or service – telecom carriers want you to consume more minutes of smart phone use, restaurants want you to eat […]
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