The California ISO has been in the throes of restructuring for the past two years, and has released what is likely to be its final design proposal. The ISO board has approved this proposal. In lieu of my slapdash review of it, I attach here some comments from a very knowledgeable and insightful colleague of …
The California legislature has entertained a few different bills this year that would reinstate direct access for some electricity consumers. And it is quashing all of them, and choosing instead to reinstate more traditional, top-down, no-incentives-in-sight cost-based regulation (through SB 888). The latest effort to reintroduce consumer direct access is AB 428, which proposes a …
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Electricity storage is one of the holy grails of the industry. Those who wish to continue regulating and controlling this dynamic, complex industry use the inability to store electricity cost-effectively as an argument for why electric networks have to be regulated. Of course, this argument is a canard — many things we consume are not …
I am thrilled by this quote in an article on building energy efficient buildings: “The greenest electron is the one you never use,” said Stephen Smith, the executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, based in Knoxville, Tenn. Yes! So why are so many “environmentalists” opposed to market-based pricing of electricity? If you …
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for posting on MIT’s Government Information Awareness initiative. As stated in this Houston Chronicle article, GIA hopes to create an enormous but self-sustaining community where users do the work of keeping it running and credible. Its creators at Media Lab — a research center whose eclectic projects bridge technology, the arts …
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for posting on MIT’s Government Information Awareness initiative. As stated in this Houston Chronicle article, GIA hopes to create an enormous but self-sustaining community where users do the work of keeping it running and credible. Its creators at Media Lab — a research center whose eclectic projects bridge technology, the arts …
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for posting on MIT’s Government Information Awareness initiative. As stated in this Houston Chronicle article, GIA hopes to create an enormous but self-sustaining community where users do the work of keeping it running and credible. Its creators at Media Lab — a research center whose eclectic projects bridge technology, the arts …
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for posting on MIT’s Government Information Awareness initiative. As stated in this Houston Chronicle article, GIA hopes to create an enormous but self-sustaining community where users do the work of keeping it running and credible. Its creators at Media Lab — a research center whose eclectic projects bridge technology, the arts …
Boy, you go away for four days and the world throws up some serious treats for your return! I’ve been arguing against state-level restrictions on the importation of alcohol for years and years, and I am ecstatic to report that the Federal Trade Commission has weighed in on the negative consumer effects of such bans. …
I am going to New Hampshire for a long weekend with my husband’s family, and as others have done this week, I’m posting the books I’m taking with me: The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, about the intellectual comraderie of Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt, Matthew Boulton, and Joseph Priestley …
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