Now, your Carnival of the Capitalists … (note: next week’s host is Venturpreneur). Send your posts to capitalists-at-elhide-dot-com. Given that we’ve just survived April 15, and given that it felt to me like I’d been beaten about the head and shoulders, I thought we’d have a flurry of tax day posts. But only one person, …
The most obvious lesson learned from the blackout report is that the electric power industry and its regulatory organizations are better at diagnosing system failure ex post than at divining ways to foster growth of a self-correcting, self-reinforcing, and dynamically reliable system. The blackout report does an excellent job of diagnosing the recent failure, and …
If we want a robust and reliable grid, then we have to think about how to manage and operate transmission. This question has been a core component of restructuring debates over the past four years, and disagreement over the organization of transmission operations continues to be extreme. But transmission is crucial to the development of …
More commentary on the Blackout Stressed? Over-worked? Need to get a way from it all? When the going gets tough on the transmission grid, sometimes a quick trip to the islands is just what is needed. One way of making the grid work better is to figure out how it can fall apart more gracefully. …
A blackout is a supply failure, so naturally people look for supply-side solutions: more transmission lines, high-tech system monitoring devices, building power plants closer to population centers, better grid planning and testing procedures. Few people consider how effectively demand response and active retail markets can help reduce strains on the grid and forestall future grid …
While Lynne and I (in a previous guest post) have been quick to note that, adjusted for inflation, gasoline prices are not at record high levels, it is the case that current gasoline prices are high by historical standards. In a letter-to-the-editor published in Sunday’s Washington Post, reader Robert Speir said: The April 4 editorial …
As in zero, nada, zip, zilch, nothing. Do you think that the very high level, high profile U.S-Canada power system outage task force could have spent all that time and money investigating the blackout, and then come to the recommendation that nothing needed to change? No way. But on the face of it, why not …
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One of the little joys of life is Anu Garg’s A Word A Day. You can have a new vocabulary word, usually in a weekly theme, arrive in your inbox daily. What a treat. Today’s word is one of my favorites: chuffed (chuft) adjective Pleased; satisfied. [From English dialect chuff (pleased, puffed, swollen with pride).] …
Carnival of the Capitalists is up over at my neighbor The Chicago Report. Although Mike, I’m your Chicago neighbor … I especially recommend Michael Williams’s post on why natural resource depletion doomsayers get it wrong (here’s a hint: when prices go up, signaling scarcity, people use less and look for other ways to do things), …
A series by Mike Giberson and Lynne Kiesling The government’s final report on the blackout has arrived on the doorstep of the nation’s electricity consumers just 7+ months after August 14. Doesn’t it strike you as a little early for a post-blackout baby boom? But there they are, 46 brand new, little recommendations: cute as …
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