A smart grid is a transactive grid.
- Lynne Kiesling
Archive for June, 2022

Car Charges House
June 15th, 2022

Via Ars Technica, an article on Toyota’s plans to offer a lithium-ion home battery system your car can charge: Toyota’s new home storage system will let an EV power a house. The Toyota Motor Corporation has decided to get into the home battery sector. Earlier this month, the automaker announced its O-Uchi Kyuden System, a home […]

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How San Diego Secured Its Water Supply: At A Cost
June 1st, 2022

Via AP News, a reminder of the power of pricing to manage behavior toward, and usage of, water: As a worsening drought forces millions of Californians to face mandatory water restrictions, one corner of Southern California has largely shielded itself from supply-related woes: San Diego County. For Western water planners, the path it took to get there […]

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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.