Lynne Kiesling So I’ve really been enjoying The Police tour and rediscovering the joy I find in their music. Here’s an article from the Guardian last week about the band, in 1978 and today, by a writer who has traveled with the band and written about them then and now. Of all the articles I’ve …
Lynne Kiesling I have been remiss in not recommending to you the New Daedalus blog by Toby Considine, one of the most visionary folks I know in the intelligent buildings and IT space. His post about information and behavior changes discusses the visual information transmission technology used at Southern California Edison to signal price changes …
Lynne Kiesling Data center power use has become substantial over the past decade, as computing has increased and computing power has intensified, so we have smaller processors doing ever more work, requiring ever more electricity. These processors also give off more waste heat, requiring more cooling, which requires more electricity; indeed, data center cooling has …
Lynne Kiesling It was pretty hot on the East Coast a couple of weeks ago, wasn’t it? The kind of heat that drives up the use of air conditioning and creates electricity demand spikes near system capacity, threatening service reliability. But there were no blackouts, no brownouts … what gives? Price signals and demand response, …
Demand Response in the Recent East Coast Heat Wave Read More »
Michael Giberson Would perfectly internalizing motor vehicle externalities make the economy less efficient? Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of the Cato Institute make that claim in a paper advocating the repeal of federal and state gasoline taxes. The paper has picked up a couple of high profile econoblogging mentions – from Tyler Cowen, Greg …
Lynne Kiesling In late June the KP Spouse and I were flying back from the ISNIE conference in Iceland, and we had a lengthy layover at BWI while awaiting our Southwest flight to Midway. Tired after a long flight from Reykjavik, we grabbed a crabcake dinner at the restaurant we knew of, then sauntered down …
Vino Volo: An Oasis of Civilization Beyond Airport Security Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday we had a terrible micro-burst in my neighborhood; it didn’t go rotational so it really wasn’t a tornado, but the winds were up to 78 m.p.h. at Wrigley Field. I was sitting in one of the second floor front bedrooms at the desk, writing, when the sky went greenish-black. A whistling wind …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s New York Times has a column by Thomas Friedman, “Go Green And Save Money” (TimesSelect $$), on the importance of energy efficiency for both reducing costs and reducing overall resource use. In it Friedman draws attention to the crucial fact that both electricity use and prices are determined by the interaction of …
Thomas Friedman on Energy Efficiency in the New York Times Today Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I just want to amplify what Mike just said about the difference between AMR and AMI, and why you, the non-energy-professional, should care. Over the past couple of decades, some utilities have been putting in new meters with AMR capabilities when they’ve had to replace meters. AMR meters are only capable of one-way …
Michael Giberson An article about meter technology company Itron in the Spokane (WA) Journal of Business makes the distinction between the last hot new thing in metering — automatic meter reading (AMR) — and the latest new thing — advanced meter infrastructure (AMI). AMR provided a giant leap forward in reducing meter reading costs and …
Ami Not Amr: Getting the Right Kind of New Meter Read More »
Copyright © 2022 Knowledge Problem Archive