Lynne Kiesling Every year the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency publish forecasts of world energy production and consumption, and the economic and environmental consequences thereof. Typically these forecasts use elaborate computer models to extrapolate various scenarios to generate a sense of where we might be headed, based on different use patterns, …
Michael Giberson Another David Cay Johnston article in the New York Times concludes, surprise, deregulation leads to higher electricity prices. The article has led to a burst of blogging, including by Mark Thoma, Felix Salmon, and the Economist‘s Free Exchange. Johnston’s piece highlights the results of calculations by Marilyn Showalter’s group, Power in the Public …
Michael Giberson Today, the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike. Among the issues in dispute is a share of income from new media. No doubt you can find much commentary on the web on the substance of the negotiations, I’m concerned with a more practical matter: How long will the …
Michael Giberson While we dream of a future of knowledge-empowered customers with continuous access to their own meter data stream integrated with a computerized home power management system, it is worthwhile to open an eye on occasion at look at actual, everyday electric metering practice. As Tom Fowler at the Houston Chronicle reports, the Texas …
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