Lynne Kiesling Many thanks to Glenn Reynolds for his blackout-commemorative post that linked to us, and welcome to new readers from Instapundit! We are about more than electricity here at KP, so please keep checking in.
Lynne Kiesling Yeah, from me too. BTW, spent much of last week in Portland, Oregon, discussing how to move toward effective power markets in the Pacific Northwest. It was a great discussion, sponsored by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. More later …
As a followup note to my Friday posting, the joint U.S.-Canadian Task Force has issued a new report, “The August 14, 2003 Blackout, One Year Later: Actions Taken in the United States and Canada to Reduce Blackout Risk.” I haven’t yet had a chance to read this update, but expect comments later in the week.
Michael Giberson Does immediate access to bid data in electricity markets aid collusion or aid in the detection of collusion and other market abuses? FERC, in a recent order on the Midwest ISO?s energy market filing, said: ?We agree with Wisconsin Retail and the Midwest TDUs that transparency is an important feature of market design. …
Michael Giberson A host of newspaper articles and essays mark the one year anniversary of the August 14, 2003 Blackout. On Thursday, August 12, the Cato Institute?s Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor argue against linking electric industry reform agendas to the blackout on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. The blackout resulted …
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Lynne Kiesling A question related to the public good nature of network reliability is whether the fact that something has public good characteristics necessarily implies that it should be provided to all at a uniform level. Again, not necessarily. Imposing a uniform reliability standard to deal with the public good features of networks does disservice …
Mike Giberson On Sunday, I read the same Randall Parker post on “Vehicle to Grid” technology that Lynne discusses below. Then, just about 90 minutes later, the power went out in my neighborhood. Coincidence? Monday morning I spent a few minutes chasing down links and reading a few concept papers. Pretty cool stuff. Here is …
Lynne Kiesling Randall Parker had a great post on Friday about hybrid and electric vehicles as electricity generation sources. Think about it: you come home from work, plug your car into your house, and use it to augment whatever other source of electricity you have, whether it’s your own generator, a neighborhood combined heat and …
Lynne Kiesling In a post on his favorite things Scottish, Tyler Cowen comes up empty when looking for a favorite Scottish band. I heartily recommend Snow Patrol. Jangly guitar, lyrics that are not banal, lyrical but not too melodic composition. Kind of in the intersection of Coldplay, Pearl Jam (and I largely say that because …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting article on zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, and EPA Director Mike Leavitt’s face-to-face introduction to our little invasive species critters. Handling a zebra mussel while hearing two longtime anglers say how the mussels have hurt fishing in the lake was the kind of experience Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, R-Clarence, …
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