Stan Klein: Energy is Not Like Telecomm - It's a systemic effect

Ownership of the data is likely tied to other data ownership issues in the economy. It also probably depends on the interface to the home network. For example, if there is a separate interface (not the meter) and the customer has some kind of energy management system, the customer probably owns the data and can control what information is exposed to the utility. However, if the interface is the meter, then the homeowner has less control, and the utility may own the data.

I disagree with the idea that a point of demarcation can be identified for the Smart Grid interface to the home. Such a point can be identified for telecommunication services, because it is possible to test looking each way, and there is little (except -- and this is a Plain Old Telephone Service example -- for picking up a telephone on Mothers Day) that one customer can act to have an effect on others. However, in the electric grid every time I turn on a light I incrementally affect the frequency and load in the Eastern Interconnection, and somewhere in that Interconnection a generator must be adjusted to compensate for my action.