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Too Cheap to Keep
Too Cheap to Keep

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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Collaboration as Innovation
Collaboration as Innovation

Stacking value from batteries and other DERs has been the goal for years, but it rarely happens in practice. Why?

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Can we get to DR 2.0?
Can we get to DR 2.0?

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!

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The Grid of the Future is Delayed by a Lack of Real Time Distribution Grid Management
The Grid of the Future is Delayed by a Lack of Real Time Distribution Grid Management

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?

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Opportunities in North America
Opportunities in North America

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?

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Energy Markets are Broken
Energy Markets are Broken

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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