Michael Giberson The Texas PUC has released its “2007 Scope of Competition in Electric Markets in Texas” report. The Dallas Morning News reported a story headlined Power company competition not working, report says. The story said: The report offered suggestions for the Legislature as it goes into session next month, including ideas that would cut …
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Michael Giberson A post at the Energy Legal Blog argues that a pair of recent court decisions will be the death of competitive wholesale power markets, at least in the Western United States, unless the Supreme Court reverses.
Lynne Kiesling James Surowiecki had a nice little column about sugar and ethanol tariffs in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. As is his wont, he concisely summarizes the pros and cons of ethanol, focusing on the higher net energy balance that cane sugar ethanol has relative to corn ethanol. He also applies …
Michael Giberson A Starbucks sits just around the corner from the E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C. It’s where I headed immediately after watching Black Gold, a documentary on the global coffee business that — if you believe the press clippings and blurbs on the official site — is galvanizing consumers into action and has …
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Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Adler has a nice post about carbon policy in the US and Europe, building on an editorial in today’s WSJ (subscription required). Jonathan notes: While talking tough about the need to reduce emissions, many European nations are moving in the opposite direction. Only two (the United Kingdom and Sweden) look likely to …
Lynne Kiesling Check out this Technology review article about using flexible electronics to enable wireless powering of devices through induction. Nikola Tesla, spin over in your grave and call your office! The power sheet, says Takao Someya, professor of engineering at the University of Tokyo, relies on the well-known physical principle of electromagnetic induction, used …
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Lynne Kiesling At Stumbling and Mumbling Chris Dillow has a post on regulating prostitution and why some people have such a visceral negative reaction to prostitution. He offers some (I think) persuasive counters to four common arguments against legal prostitution. Chris effectively makes the point that markets facilitate the mutual exchange of value for value …
Lynne Kiesling Mike beat me to it in commenting on David Cay Johnston’s NYT article from Wednesday about grid congestion. My thoughts are somewhat different from Mike’s, for what it’s worth. Johnston hits on one of the most pressing problems in electricity restructuring, although I’m going to frame it differently from how he does: technological …
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Michael Giberson David Cay Johnston is back with another in his series of articles on electric industry restructuring, this one concerning transmission congestion. Another important sign of worsening congestion is a sharp increase in requests by network operators to prevent overloads that could disrupt transmission on the PJM Interconnection, the network serving 51 million people …
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Michael Giberson If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A new study for the Department of Energy finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel …
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