“… if the future of real-time energy data relies solely on consumers going to a retailer and buying and installing one of these home energy products, the market will not only be disjointed but will take a very long time to unfold.”

The first comment to that story “Carefully introducing competition needs to be introduced in the Utility space in order to stimulate innovation. Utilities have a monopoly and have no reason to innovate except by regulatory and political force. This method is certainly not a recipe for success,” by Scott Van Dam, went right to the point.

As can be seen in a comment posted under the Energy Pulse article Tangled Network: Transmission or Meter Investments http://bit.ly/65x8Lr by Kate Rowland, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Utility Topic Centers, Energy Central, “In the Electricity Without Price Ccontrols Architecture Framework, as utilities are restricted to develop a regulated delivery only Smart Grid, Second Generation Retailers develop the resources of the demand side, which coordinate customer investments while taking on the metering infrastructure.”

Even though there is varying degrees of competition introduced to the power industry, the Smart Grid as it is being developed is based on utilities keeping the monopoly on the metering infrastructure. That is the key barrier to Internet like innovations.

The response Katie needed to its reaction to Scott comment “I wonder with more IT companies moving into the power space, if this will help with that issue at all?” is that IT companies need to be stimulated on Internet like innovations as described in the EWPC article A Better Decade Require the End of the Prevailing Style of Management http://bit.ly/8xQmIz

The Future in the Next Decade will then reads as follows “… if the future of real-time energy data relies solely on consumers going to a competitive Second Generation Retailer and consumers that have the right to choose and installing one of these home energy systems, the market will be tightly integrated and will take a much shorter time to unfold.”