A few months ago we were contacted by Mathias Dalheimer a.k.a. gonium of Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern. He told us they were planning to implement and trial a demand-side management platform. Unlike other initiatives in this domain, they want this platform to be based on open-source components to facilitate a bottom-up movement in energy management. Hence the mySmartGrid project name. People attending the Flukso talk at FOSDEM X have already received an introduction to mySmartGrid by Mathias. Here's a summary of what was said during the talk: