No more BAU: These trends will change the power system and utility businesses at their core

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7. Thanks. Looks like I'm behind on some of the better things happening in the US

There was plenty there to comment on, but just two things for now, the first being an impression of the day-to-day battle, on every tiny point, with the coal-FFN-utility industry.

The second one was in the energy markets and how the allocation is strictly and aggressively on price alone. If some carbon index could be injected at that point of sale, as a different way of setting dispatch priority, it would drastically change the market.

I'll post some more later on the German flexibility markets, since what I'd mentioned above was more local. I can see that I might as well quote from a source with a better version of what I wrote above rather than to write it myself.

While I was looking for something else I ran across this. Mainly it's the preliminary results from six 2012 pilot studies, smart grid and new market topics, published by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, in English.

Interim results of the E-Energy pilot projects towards the Internet of Energy
http://www.bmwi.de/English/Redaktion/Pdf/smart-energy-made-in-germany,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi2012,sprache=en,rwb=true.pdf

There are about a half-dozen OPs in that report alone.