Too Cheap to Keep
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What happens if we overbuild renewable energy? Curtailment is an increasingly big problem for grid-scale renewable energy projects. Are big batteries the solution?
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The Future is Local
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I read some news recently about a company called Faire that just completed a $170M Series E funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Jeffrey Kolovson, the COO, stated his belief that the future of retail is local. It made me think about energy and how the future of energy is local too.
Read MoreCollaboration as Innovation
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Stacking value from batteries and other DERs has been the goal for years, but it rarely happens in practice. Why?
Read MoreAccelerate NWA Solutions
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A blockchain-based transactive market approach is a better solution for successful non-wires alternatives than the traditional bilateral and proprietary vendor solutions that are typically deployed today. This post outlines three examples that illustrate why.
Read MoreCan we get to DR 2.0?
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The Brattle Group believes that “demand response 2.0” will be essential to facilitating the integration of renewable energy into the grid. But, this grid integration support will be need at all hours of the day and traditional demand response and demand response programs are not set up to provide these services. Blockchain can help!
Read MoreThe Grid of the Future is Delayed by a Lack of Real Time Distribution Grid Management
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Is real time distribution grid analysis required to enable transactive energy markets? What is it and why haven’t we already implemented real time distribution grid analysis?
Read MoreEconomic Diversity for Coal Communities
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How can coal communities diversify their economies away from coal?
Read MoreOpportunities in North America
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North American energy markets don’t encourage innovation, but this is changing. Hawaii is the first to attempt to create a new utility incentive structure. Will other regulators and markets follow?
Read MoreBlockchain Resources - UPDATED
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Following an intro to blockchain webinar I presented to AESP, I wanted to provide a set of resources to help people get up to speed on blockchain and stay current on events and activities in the space.
Read MoreEnergy Markets are Broken
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North American energy markets are highly regulated, with incentive structures in place that are almost hostile to innovation. How can you sell products designed to reduce cost, improve flexibility, and increase consumer satisfaction to customers whose bottom line won't benefit from these improvements? Are energy markets broken? Were they ever not?
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