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Book Review, The Electric Battery: Charging Forward To A Low-Carbon Future, Joel Eisen
Book Review, The Electric Battery: Charging Forward To A Low-Carbon Future, Joel Eisen
Law Faculty Publications
The Electric Battery is the product of a Vermont Law School team led by Kevin Jones, the school’s Director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment. It is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers and others interested in the future for storage technologies in transportation and electricity, the sectors of the economy that produce the most greenhouse gases. Professor Jones brings considerable expertise to the project, having produced well-regarded reports on smart grid issues, and some projects mentioned in the book – such as the partnership between Tesla and Green Mountain Power – are located in the authors’ home …
An Open Access Distribution Tariff: Removing Barriers To Innovation On The Smart Grid, Joel B. Eisen
An Open Access Distribution Tariff: Removing Barriers To Innovation On The Smart Grid, Joel B. Eisen
Law Faculty Publications
This Article proposes that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) consider promulgating an Open Access Distribution Tariff (OADT) to open the nation's electric grid to new products and services at the consumer (distribution) level. Design of the OADT would be comparable to the Open Access Transmission Tariff that the FERC has used previously to open the nation's transmission wires. This Article argues that an OADT is necessary to create a smart electricity network that would be national, multimodal, and interactive. There is no smart electricity network at present, and there are numerous barriers to the development of open networking, such …