Bruce Nordman spent decades at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working on demand flexibility. He returns with an argument that cuts against most of what the industry is building: the grid should stop at the meter.

Everything behind it — solar, batteries, water heaters, EVs — belongs to the customer, coordinated by one mechanism: price. Not aggregators. Not cloud platforms. Not utilities micromanaging your devices.

— Standards vs. platforms: what VPPs make you pay for
— The case for low-voltage DC — solar is DC, batteries are DC, so why convert twice?
— Why under 5% of Californian EV owners let the utility touch their charger
— The Bell Labs story: how the smartest engineers alive dismissed the internet

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