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 ...

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 ...

Blockchain—a distributed database technology that allows a network of parties to securely transact with each other—has been hailed as a game-changing innovation in the power sector for its potential ...

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 ...

The energy industry took a giant step towards a consumer-run future today (Monday April 11) when New York start-up TransActive Grid enabled the first ever peer-to-peer paid transaction of energy in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...