Grid Unlocked
Understanding and Connecting Smart Meters, Smart Grids, and Smart Markets.

A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling

Archive for June, 2017

Don’t Blame Water Markets for Trouble With Western Rivers
June 18th, 2017

Via Water Deeply, commentary on the potential that water markets have when it comes to protecting the West’s rivers: As Western states grapple with the best way to allocate dwindling water resources to meet multiple needs, water markets have emerged as one tool. But the idea is not without critics, such as Gary Wockner, who […]

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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.