25 Oct '12, 2pm

Energy Democracy Becomes More Real

Will new technologies democratize energy much the way the Internet did information? Industry movement seems to point in that direction with the rise of the smart grid, time-of-day pricing, distributed solar, and the electric vehicle. Together these technologies offer a vision of a less centralized energy system, one where communities and households ‘vote in’ or shape the electric grid by how they decide to consume energy, a phenomenon also called the Energy Internet . Four pieces of news this week reflect a bubbling up of this trend. The first two are solicitations that innovators in this realm might want to check out. The last might be more appropriately described as energy tyranny. Shaping the Energy Internet in Maine and Ontario In Maine, GridSolar is working on a project that tries to solve electricity reliability problems with pinpointed, local solutions, rather than ...

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