A recent study by DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows that grid operators can use something called transactive energy coordination to engage and use thousands or millions of large-area ...

If in the future you find yourself selling your excess solar panel energy to your neighbor via secure blockchain, you’ll have one startup’s actions on President Street in Brooklyn to thank. That’s ...

Two new projects, led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), are testing transactive methods and moving the nation a step closer to a more cost-effective, clean, and resilient energy system.

Power grid operators are perpetually walking a tightrope, trying to balance the supply of generation and the capacity to deliver it with customer needs at any given moment and location within the ...

A new micro-grid project in Brooklyn is pointing the way to a new type of energy system: one based around local electricity generation, energy trading between neighbors, and less reliance on ...

Robert Sauchelli doesn't have a solar panel, but he's all for the idea — before he retired, he devoted 21 years to energy efficiency work at the Environmental Protection Agency. To show his support, ...

Something odd is happening on President Street in Brooklyn. While solar panels on the roofs of terraced houses soak up sun, a pair of computers connected to the panels quietly crunch numbers. First, ...

For all the publicity generated by the recent increase in value of Bitcoin, as well as the generally increasing awareness of the existence of blockchain technology, the recent Blockchain in Energy ...

Over the course of the Spring and Summer this year, I’ve enjoyed discussions with two energy experts about their vision of transactive energy, their software program TESS — short for Transactive ...

The state of New York is working to rebuild its power grid as a distributed platform and to create incentives for the powerful utilities companies to work with upstart innovators. An unanticipated ...

They say sharing is caring, and if we’re going to care about anything collectively, our planet seems to be a good place to start. That’s the idea behind a novel New York initiative that is allowing ...

In the spring of 2015, Bob Sauchelli answered a knock at his door on President Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn: Did he want to buy solar energy from his neighbor? Sauchelli, 68, is retired but spent ...