A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Archive for May, 2016

Buddy, Can You Spare A Watt?
May 4th, 2016

Via The Economist, an interesting article on the potential of trading power among mobile devices.  While this blog is not focused on solutions that may free users from dead-battery tyranny, the pricing and consumer behaviour expected / observed from this solution is instructive of what may occur from larger scale smart grids/smart markets: ONE of […]

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About This Blog And Its Authors
Grid Unlocked is powered by two eco-preneurs who analyze and reference articles, reports, and interviews that can help unlock the nascent, complex and expanding linkages between smart meters, smart grids, and above all: smart markets.

Based on decades of experience and interest in conservation, Monty Simus believes that a truly “smart” grid must be a “transactive” grid, unshackled from its current status as a so-called “natural monopoly.”

In short, an unlocked grid must adopt and harness the power of markets to incentivize individual users, linked to each other on a large scale, who change consumptive behavior in creative ways that drive efficiency and bring equity to use of the planet's finite and increasingly scarce resources.