his post begins a series of ruminations based on conversations last spring that started in the OpenADR Alliance, and continued off-line with David Holmberg (NIST), Michel Kohanim (Universal Devices), and Gale Horst (EPRI). As usual, while people offer me wisdom, my mistakes are my own.
Read MoreEight Agents for Energy
The Energy Mashup Lab (The Lab) is developing open source software for agents that will enable systems that use, produce, or store energy to self-assemble into microgrids. These microgrids can be standalone or grid-attached. If grid-attached, they present a single market or OpenADR interface to the grid, and that interface reveals only the net market position of the microgrid.
The microgrid is operated by a micromarket, trading in availability over time. The Lab uses ...
Small Transactions and Smart Energy
The problem of smart energy is distributed intermittent generation laid across unmanageable power use and a fixed distribution grid. Central operators will never be able to keep pace with controlling new technologies that generate, store, and use power. Privacy demands that central operators not track and predict every activity in our homes and buildings. In economic terms, this is a knowledge problem
Markets are a proven means to balance supply and demand without central control. In 1992,...
Read MoreJust-In-Time Infrastructure and Watergy
The future of infrastructure is just-in time. Just-in-time delivery of structures, ready to support people and business, customizable to the site, long lasting, ready for smart energy and water. Just in time delivery of distributed energy, ready to support structures, the people who live and work in them, and the services they need, and ready for smart grids. Just in time delivery of pure water, ready to support people and agriculture, able to work alongside smart power and smart grids...
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