May 2023

This white paper summarizes Post Road Foundation’s transactive energy project in New England, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. In this project, the project team will evaluate a new Prices-from-Devices Transactive Energy architecture, called TESS, which provides significant advantages over conventional command-and-control and other types of DER coordination. Project completion is expected by December 2027.

This white paper, composed by Harvard Law Cyber Law Clinic student Kelsey MacKinnon, discusses the full range of ethical issues that are implicated by distributed energy resource coordination systems and proposes means by which these issues can be addressed.

This white paper, composed by Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic student Paul Friedman, discusses the importance of distributed energy resources (DERs) interoperability in order for DERs to reach their full potential for decarbonization, electrification and grid reliability and resiliency.

This invited guest editorial argues that developing an energy technology that meets community needs and that is wanted by communities is just as important for addressing climate change and energy poverty as developing a technology…

This paper, co-authored with Post Road’s Connected Community Team and to be presented at the 2023 IEEE PES meeting (and selected as one of the Best Conference Papers) presents a limit order book (LOB) market mechanism design for transactive energy systems.