Via Waterfind, an interesting innovation in Australia that further develop a real-time “smart” market for water: Envisioned primarily as a market mechanism to enablesclients to remove water market uncertainty and plan for future irrigation requirements, the ‘Waterfind Forward Water Market’ is an extension of the current spot market, enabling the contracting of temporary or permanent […]
Read more »Via the Institute for Local Self Reliance, some commentary on the concept of energy ownership – a fundamental tenet to the idea of smart markets: The transformation taking place in the electricity system is enormous, but twofold. But most commentators – including the former FERC chair – miss half the opportunity when they fixate on […]
Read more »While not exactly what I’d call a “smart market”, an interesting look via the New York Times at some of carbon permitting & trade mechanisms being activated around the world: Bryan T. Pagel, a dairy farmer, watched as a glistening slurry of cow manure disappeared down a culvert. If recycling the waste on his family’s […]
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