Research

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.

This invited contribution to the 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, describes how the fusion community can look to other industries and fields of research to meet community needs and achieve community support.

This brief white paper summarizes the need for high and symmetrical broadband upload speed to maintain and improve U.S. innovation and competitiveness. The current asymmetric speeds that favor downloads over uploads are an artifact of…

According to a recent study from the Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense Media, 21% of urban and 37% of rural public k-12 students, representing more than 15 million students in total, and up to…

A wide range of technologies are rapidly being commercialized and deployed to modernize the electric grid. These digital “smart grid” technologies take advantage of modern data acquisition, control and computing power to improve an electric…

Broadband access in rural America already has a large economic impact. A 2016 study by the Hudson Institute found that rural broadband supports nearly $100 billion in manufacturing activity. A wide variety of studies have…