Via Smart Grid News, a call for a transparent market that includes end users: Distributed Energy Resources, or DER, is a trend to watch. DER adoption across the country, and in hot spots like California and the North East in particular, is growing. Declining costs and improved performance for several technologies — solar photovoltaic and […]
Read more »Via the Institute for Local Self Reliance, a commentary on what they call democratic energy: I spent three days this week with some of the biggest minds behind the “new economy” movement because their core theme – economic democracy – fits like a glove over ILSR’s work on democratic energy. The big takeaway? Solar power […]
Read more »Via Smart Grid News, an interesting commentary on the future of behavioral energy efficiency (BEE) initiatives. As oft mused here, we think there is limited longevity to BEE gains which is why we’ve advocated development of smart markets: As I’m sure you are aware (how could you have missed the fanfare?) Apple gave us “just […]
Read more »Via EDF, a look at New York state’s energy reform: The New York Public Service Commission (Commission) has embarked on the landmark Reforming Energy Vision (REV) proceeding to design a new business model for electric utilities. Today’s business model allows utilities to earn revenues based on how much money they spend to supply and deliver […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Institute, commentary on a smart market variant that considers how distributed energy resources could help prepare to the power sector to evolve in a sharing economy platform: As Thomas Friedman reported in the New York Times, the shared economy is booming, with companies like Uber and Airbnb continuing to disrupt […]
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