Climate Changed

The World's Tiniest Power Market Will Leverage Big Data to Sell Solar

  • New York campus tests system to price power from small assets
  • System part of statewide effort to overhaul energy industry

The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever

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It will be the world’s smallest electricity market.

In mid-December, National Grid Plc will flip the switch on an automated trading system that pays hospitals and research facilities at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to sell electricity from their onsite solar panels, batteries or other generators to doctors’ offices and businesses -- the first power market ever designed within a single utility service area.