Reinvent the Utility
In the last decade, cleantech venture capital was about reinventing the electric generator. It's time to reinvent the utility.
Companies Buying Energy From Their Utilities – the Math Works, Until It Doesn’t
In a world where utility rates and incentives are dynamic, energy costs are likely to be accelerating (after a three-year hiatus) and new energy technology development is being introduced, our engineers should expect to be performing more of this in-house vs. pay-for-service tradeoff analysis.
Home Energy Apps – Not Yet “Plug and Play”
Originally posted at Groom Energy Of course the conventional view is that the smart grid market will be “huge” – and the target for smart grid today is squarely on the residential market. So it shouldn’t be missed that within days of each other both Google and Microsoft killed their initial home energy software applications. First...
The Smart Grid Will Be Inside-Out
Smart grid features and applications will likely be driven from inside the meter, out into the grid.