The Supreme Court Saves the Smart Grid, But More Battles Loom

The breadth of this decision paves the way for a host of new technologies and business models that seem poised to disrupt the usually staid business of electric utilities and usher in a more technologically advanced power grid.

An obscure Supreme Court ruling paves the way for people and businesses to earn money with distributed energy technologies.

This particular decision by the court is one of the most important in the energy world for many years – not because it upheld a particular FERC rule but because the decision seems to tip the balance of power on electricity policy toward the federal government and away from the states.

by Seth Blumsack, Pennsylvania State University

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